Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Regaining lost ground

Jo began the arduous process of regaining the ground she has lost over the last three months dealing with the infection in her cranioplasty wound.

It was not easy and the effort physically drained her but she managed to walk from her bedroom to a point halfway down the hallway before exhaustion prevented her from walking any further.

She was not walking as well as before and required assistance placing her left foot but we were all heartened by how much she has rebounded in such a short space of time.
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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.