Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Another corner turned

Jo had her first physiotherapy session in two months today and it evinced a remarkable degree of improvement. I had already observed that Jo was moving her left foot at the ankle. This is more so when she is in a prone position that sitting but there is definitely more movement there. Neuralgic pain accompanies this but that is the nature of the beast.

Today Jo managed to walk her usual 9 yards without any verbal or physical help from the physiotherapists. This is most encouraging and Jo herself professed that she felt more positive than she has before about her own abilities. Hopefully another corner really has been turned.
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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.