Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Learning to stand

Another physiotherapy session today and Jo continues to make progress walking, navigating a corner as part of an 18 yard "run". She really is walking well, receiving only psychological support from the physiotherapist just by virtue of her being there and the only physical support from the zimmer frame.

Jo seems to have forgotten how to stand though, a situation fostered by reliance on the rotunda for standing and which sees her trying to pull herself up via the zimmer frame where she should be pushing herself up as we all do.

A few practice sessions at standing and stepping to sit from standing with the zimmer frame saw some progress however. We shall see at her next session on Thursday how much of that learning has cemented itself.
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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.