Sunday, 24 October 2010

Mind and Matter

We have another week's hiatus in Jo's rehabilitation as we await the insurance company's approval for further treatment. Hopefully the revised care plan will be put in place this week and Jo will be walking every day from her bedroom to the bathroom.

Jo is now remembering her struggle with death in August 2008. The memories are brief, disjointed and painful but very clear. Perhaps this is part of the reawakening of the brain that the neurologists seemed to think was a possibility back then? Certainly it seems concurrent with further subconscious action driving conscious action.

When Jo is asleep in her chair her left leg lifts up, the left foot is turned up at the ankle and then the foot is placed down on the floor in a deliberate fashion that is more assured than her waking mind can muster. I fail to see how the physiotherapists and neurologists can dismiss this as a reflexive and involuntary action and it seems to vindicate my thesis that the thoughts and actions start in the subconscious mind and are then manifested in conscious thoughts and actions.
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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.