Wednesday, 3 March 2010

New hope

Jo underwent surgery to suture close the hole in her head today. Despite a nail-biting day, with surgery being postponed until 15:30, the procedure seemed to go well with no complications.

After recovery she was brighter and more alert than I expected and ravenously hungry as well she might be, having been nil by mouth since the previous evening.

Her vigorous chewing on the sandwiches that broke her fast did aggravate the wound such that it bled, so I left her for the evening not entirely free of anxiety.

Yet that anxiety is mingled with the hope that this somehow, in some ineffable way, signals a new dawn. The previous night Jo eschewed the rotunda to transfer from the wheelchair, electing to stand and step and today I observed her move her left hand from the wrist, the first time I have seen her do this. Let us hope these are signs of an early spring for her.

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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.