For the physiotherapy session today the physiotherapists got Jo to stand at the kitchen bench and walk sideways. They said we should do this as often as possible from now until January as they cannot visit again until then as this is a busy time for them, settling people in at home after a stay in hospital.
I appreciate their dilemma but Jo saw it as if she was being abandoned. Once again I find myself wishing for enough funding to pay for private physiotherapy. Once a week is not enough as Jo's confidence has been shattered by the fall earlier this year and it takes a whole session js to get her confidence back. Then, a week later, that confidence has dissipated and so we start al over again, making progress painfully slow.
This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
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Different strokes...
It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.
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