This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Majik Thornton Brown - 1988-2010 RIP
Our companion of 22 years sadly suffered a stroke this morning, caused by a massive brain tumour. He was peacefully put to sleep and a sadness has descended on our household. He will be missed.
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.
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