Thursday, 13 January 2011

Under Pressure

The extended time Jo has spent in bed for the last two weeks due to her infected finger has resulted in a nasty pressure sore on her sacrum. So far it is a stage 1 pressure sore, which means the wound hasn't broken the skin but there is a build up of pus there.

Jo is now feeling well enough to get up so hopefully the increased activity of transfers will stimulate her circulation and bring blood to the sore and thus help to disperse it. She is also sleeping on her left side to keep the pressure off the affected side and, as well as aiding the healing of the bedsore this should help to stimulate awareness of the left side of her body.
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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.