Monday, 16 August 2010

The hole is fixed

We travelled to Cambridge today so the consultant neuro nurse could look at the progress of Jo's head wound. She professed herself pleased, saying the wound was fully healed and the flaking skin at the bottom of the wound was an adult form of cradle cap, which is a benign condition that will respond to treatment with oil and special shampoo.
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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.