Hello everyone! I hope everyone is having an excellent month and finding ample support within BAF. I would like to welcome our newest members this week!
@KellyD is in the Eastern United States. Kelly is a nurse practitioner and she experienced a seizure provoked by subarachnoid hemorrhage of the ACOM, then spent 21 days in the ICU. Kelly had a complicated journey with basill spasms needing treatment and hydrocephalus post discharge. Four weeks post discharge she required a VP shunt to treat the hydrocephalus. Fortunately, Kelly is doing well now and looking into a possible career with neurology.
@bianca is in San Francisco, United States. Bianca’s partner’s sister suffered a double BA rupture at the beginning of March. Following multiple surgeries and procedures, she is in a sub-acute facility and opens her eyes for a few hours at a time. Bianca is wondering what else could be done to help her healing and if there are other similar survivor stories out there.
@Doglover is in Northampton, England. Freda’s aneurysm burst on 09/12/2002 while getting her 8 year old daughter ready for school. She was sent to The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford where a coil was inserted to block her bleed. However, while preparing for Christmas, Freda then had a stroke and spent 6 weeks at Oxford and 6 weeks at a local hospital. Freda has been left with left-sided weakness and no use of her left hand but expresses gratitude to be alive! Freda’s daughter has recently started a family and Freda just welcomed her grandson, Callum.