I was 7 months pregnant with my first and 24 years old at the time of my aneurysm.
I awoke and got ready for work as usual, when this sudden, excruciating pain came over my head and neck. I was screaming it hurt so bad. I called my husband to call an ambulance for me, he did reluctantly because he thought it was just a headache. The ambulance drivers treated me like crap, made me walk to the ambulance, etc.
I got to the hospital and they wouldn't give me any pain meds because I was pregnant. They said the only thing they could do was have a cat scan but that it might hurt the baby. I said yes let's do it. I don't remember anything after that. From what I was told, they discovered a bleed in my brain and rushed me to the Memorial Hermann hospital down town.
At some point they shaved my head and I had a tube placed in the top of my head. The next day I had surgical clipping of my aneurysm. The day after that I had a c-section. I don't remember any of this. They weren't sure I was going to survive.
I had a few more brain surgeries or procedures, I had severe vasospasms. So much so that I thought I was somewhere else, I couldn't remember where I was or who my family were. I remember having vivid hallucinations about crazy things.
I remember being in a lot of pain, particularly from the c-section.
Then somehow I got better, I was moved from Neurology ICU to regular neurology. I was in the hospital just shy of a month.
I am disabled now in my speech and my memory. My right side is weaker but I'm working out and it seems to be getting better.
My baby is 8 months old and I don't know if I should get pregnant again. I'm afraid I will have another aneurysm, but my neurologist says I'm perfectly fine to have another baby. I'm still scared though.