Tuesday, 8 June 2010

We may be getting back to normal

Jo seems to have recovered from the second bout of gout and is in much better spirits. We don't have another physiotherapy session scheduled until next week so we shall see how she has improved or not. She currently has nerve pain in her left ankle which, although painful for her is a sign that some movement is returning in that area, hopefully decreasing the limb synergies.

We currently have the builders in converting the downstairs bathroom to a wt room for Jo and she is looking forward to that. A year of bed baths is not fun.
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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.