It's nice to find others like me. I had a subarachniod hemmorage (brain aneurism) in 1999 and am considered a walking miracle. The doctor at my local hospital couldn't find where the bleeding was coming from and wanted to keep me in the hospital for observation. If a person makes it through the first bleed and the aneurism heals over, the second bleed will most likely kill you. That would have been me. Thank God my family had me taken to UCLA where the doctor looked at the same x-ray, did surgery, put in the titamium clip and 2 weeks later I was home. I am 99% recovered. But even the Head of Brain Trauma at UCLA cannot offer any follow up advice. He just said to contact the surgeon. I am real anxious to get the clip checked but have no insurance right now and can't get it done. There is no particular reason, it just seems like a good idea. However I am not sure why? If a CAT scan shows that the clip has slipped or something, what would I do. Would you have the surgery again? I think I have used up my miracles in this life time. It's not just the aneurism itself that is dangerous, it is the recovery as well, when strokes are common. To this day the surgeon that inserted my intibation tube and damaged my vocal cord, has never been identified. But as far as that goes, we are all only human and what is a paralyzed vocal cord compared to the possibility of not being here to see my girls grow up.
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It's nice to find others like me. I had a subarachniod hemmorage (brain aneurism) in 1999 and am considered a walking miracle. The doctor at my local hospital couldn't find where the bleeding was coming from and wanted to keep me in the hospital for observation. If a person makes it through the first bleed and the aneurism heals over, the second bleed will most likely kill you. That would have been me. Thank God my family had me taken to UCLA where the doctor looked at the same x-ray, did surgery, put in the titamium clip and 2 weeks later I was home. I am 99% recovered. But even the Head of Brain Trauma at UCLA cannot offer any follow up advice. He just said to contact the surgeon. I am real anxious to get the clip checked but have no insurance right now and can't get it done. There is no particular reason, it just seems like a good idea. However I am not sure why? If a CAT scan shows that the clip has slipped or something, what would I do. Would you have the surgery again? I think I have used up my miracles in this life time. It's not just the aneurism itself that is dangerous, it is the recovery as well, when strokes are common. To this day the surgeon that inserted my intibation tube and damaged my vocal cord, has never been identified. But as far as that goes, we are all only human and what is a paralyzed vocal cord compared to the possibility of not being here to see my girls grow up.
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