Thursday, 28 January 2010

If it’s not one thing…

… it’s another. The antibiotics Jo is taking to fight infection in the wound from her cranioplasty seem to have a beneficial effect on that area, with no visible signs of the infection in the form of discharge any more.
Unfortunately they seem to have had a negative effect on her kidneys, which have only been functioning at 30% efficiency for some years prior to the craniectomoy in 2008.
She now has severe stomach pains, pains in her back around the kidney area and general pain all over her body. She also has really bad gout in her right leg. All this is consistent with hyperuricemia, which is caused by an excess of uric acid in her blood. The kidneys filter uric acid to the blood so it looks as though their function has been impaired by the antibiotics.
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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.