Thursday, 23 September 2010

Strong forward motion

Another physiotherapy session today and Jo showed further improvement over Monday. She is now back to where she was before the week's hiatus while the insurance company shuffled papers.

Her stands are getting stronger and she was also able to perform a stand and swivel to get back into her chair after the session.

90% of her walking was assured and from where I stood, behind her, looked like you or I walking. About every fifth step Jo hesitated and had to make visible effort to step the left foot but overall she made very strong forward motion with minimal assistance from the physiotherapist.
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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.