Saturday, 9 January 2010

Physiotherapy starts again

The first physiotherapy session since the 9th of December last year. Jo has a bad cold so only managed a few steps but did perform two stand and step transfers to and from her chair. She stepped backward for these, the first time I have seen her do this and an encouraging sign. The physiotherapists thought Jo showed definite improvement and talked about her doing transfers like this with the carers in the near future.
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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.