Hemmorrhagic Bleed Basal Ganglia 7 months on
I felt like I dodged a real bullet. Joke is that strokes run in my family which means nobody runs in my family. My father suffered from a stroke, my maternal grandfather, my maternal grandmother, my paternal grandmother. My mom's oldest brother have all suffered for Major strokes. My dad has mild mild aphasia and has a stent in his ventricle artery to keep him upright. My uncle suffered major Aphasia and doesn't have his speech. My grandparents have all passed on but they all fought their strokes. I don't have any Aphasia and since the stroke- which was a 1.9 mm hemorrhage in my basal ganglia on the right lobe, the following week it increased in size to 2.1 mm and moved to my left lobe. 2 weeks in ICU one week in intermediate Care. Discharged from OT and PT within a week. Already discharged from neuro. They still have me going to a therapist and cardiologist of course. I take a crazy cocktail of 11 different medication 18 times per day. Suffered The strokes on January 5th and January 12th of this year and I was able to go back to work full time March 18th. My memory has gotten way more acute and precise. I have some lasting neural effects on the left side. I don't think I'll ever be able to feel the left side of my jaw ever again and occasionally I get the fireworks on my left side. I feel fortunate and I never thought about my own mortality in all of this. Everyone around me was so worried that I wasn't going to make it but that was never a thought in my mind ever. Not once. It made me more appreciative of the small things. It made me value freedom within my own life, more importantly than money. It made me prioritize the things that are truly important to me. It made me realize how fragile our own health is.