Sunday, 10 October 2010

A bout of gout


Just when things seemed to be improving Jo has been struck by a bout of gastroenteritus, possibly carried by her carers. This has had the knock on effect of triggering an attack of gout in her right foot.

On Thursday the gout was relatively mild and may have even helped Jo in her physiotherapy as the pain in her right foot forced her to put more weight on her left foot. You can see this in the video.

Unfortunately gout often gets worse before it gets better and this is the case now. Despite starting a course of steroids to reduce the inflammation Jo has become bedridden as the pain in her right foot has prevented her from standing. Let us hope it has subsided in time for Monday's physiotherapy session.

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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.