When Jo first began the long process of recovery from this she had a bas case of neglect, where she did not see things to her left and was generally unaware of the left side of her world. Indeed there wasn’t a left side to her world. This was something I now realise was manifesting itself before the operation. Frequently I would puzzle over Jo’s placement of pictures on the wall, they wouldn’t be centred but placed far over to the right.
As she began the process of recovery the first thing to return was the visual aspect, with objects on her left slowly coming into view, sometimes with prompting but increasingly spontaneously. What was slower was the orientation of her body. When she was in the recovery hospice she would almost always lean to the right and be unaware she was doing so. That improved once she came home and she has been sitting in her chair quite upright and centrally since early last year.
Lately I have observed that, when she falls asleep in the chair she leans far over to the left, a complete reversal from those early days.
Yesterday the physiotherapists came for a re-evaluation of Jo since the problems with her head wound forced her to abandon all physiotherapy. They too found that she was actually placing more weight on the left leg than the right, causing some pain and affecting her ability to balance.
We shall have to se what the consultant neurologist makes of this when he examines the progress on the sutures in her head wound.
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