A Brain Aneurysm Creates Some Strange Effects.

Sorry about the delay. Some days are diamonds and some days are stone. Yesterday was a stone day.

Your life can really get messed up when you suffer a brain injury. That is, of course, assuming that you survived the brain aneurysm blowout. ;^) Terrible humor. One thing I have noticed is that my confidence has taken a serious hit.

My incident was about 4 years ago come this next April 3. I didn't have a clue about what was happening for the 1st year. I went through a lot of physical therapy to get back my ability to walk from one end of my house to the other.

One thing you have to come to grips with is the idea that the brain controls everything you do. Simple things like walking, talking, spiting, go right out the window when you are the victim of a ruptured brain aneurysm.

One of the hard parts of getting back on your feet is accepting the fact that you will need help. You cannot do it on your own, there's no if's, and's, or but's about it. Sometimes life sucks, but that's the way it is. If you don't get the needed help you will, in all likelihood, end up chasing dust bunnies in the sunlight that shines through your living room window.

I’ll cite a perfect example of what actually happened to a woman my wife worked with shortly before I had my blowout.

She suffered a multiply brain aneurysm hemorrhage three weeks before my troubles. There was quite a delay before she got any help. We spent a month in ICU at the same hospital and at the same time. I guess she had seniority. She had, and still has, a much tougher go of it than me.

One of her main deficits is; is that she is really bull headed about getting help. Anyhow, she has now been committed to a constant care home because she can no longer do for herself.

Could she have pulled herself together and gotten any better? Who knows. It’s really hard to call those shots in life. I think she would have done much better had she been able to pull herself up by her bootstraps.

This is turning into one of those down days. Just let me say this. If you know anyone that has survived a brain aneurysm incident and they don’t want your help; stick with them. It will take a lot of effort on your part to not give up on the victim but it will be worth it in the long run.

Stay healthy

Dick…

Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Changes
after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: