Monday, 1 March 2010

A Stitch In Time

We saw a consultant neurosurgeon about the hole in Jo's head. The first approach will be to abrade the edges of the wound, removing the hard scar tissue that has formed there, and suture the hole closed.

Although he could offer no guarantees this would work it is preferable to a graft as wounds heal better from below.

The concern is that an infection may be hiding on the titanium plate. If that proves to be the case the plate will have to be removed, replacing it with a new sterile one once the wound has proven to be clean.

Let us hope the stitches are in time to save Jo from more surgery further down the line.

Posted by Unknown at 18:28

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

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.