Monday, 18 January 2010

Fighting infection

We went to Addenbrookes today to see Jo’s neurosurgeon. The wound from her cranioplasty has not healed and is weeping. The neurosurgeon confirmed it was an infection and prescribed a six-week course of strong antibiotics. Let us hope that clears the infection as the alternative is to take the plate out.
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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.