Support & Recovery For A Brain Aneurysm That's Hemorrhaged

"Strategies for Short-Term Brain Injury Memory Loss"

Survivors might remember events from ten years ago, but cannot seem to remember who called yesterday or where they put the keys. Memory involves many facets of the brain, and if a brain aneurysm or treatment damaged any of these areas, your memory will suffer.

Many survivors regain their ability to remember as they continue to heal, while some continue to experience difficulty with short-term memory for years."

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The Brain Aneurysm Foundation: Support & Recovery: "Strategies for Short-term Memory Loss

This is a really good site to pick up some pointers on how to work with the memory loss problems a brain injury.

Take care and stay healthy.

Dick...

PS.. I'm going to be adding some books and videos from Barnes & Noble that I've checked out. They have some really good prices and service at B&N. They even have a used book department.

Brain Injury, Stroke, Brain Aneurysm Support Forum

Good morning. This is going to be a short post. I've got a headache of gigantic proportions. Not to mention I'm really tired today too. These brain aneurysm things can be a real pain in the kester sometimes.

Anyhow. I came across this forum today and thought I'd pass it along. I haven't had a real chance to check it out but it looks pretty good.

Brain Injury, Stroke, Brain Aneurysm Support Forum

It looks like it'd be a good place to pick up some tips and also let them know your experience with a brain injury. That's what I plan to do.

Take care and stay healthy

Dick..

Collateral damage from a ruptured brain aneurysm.

I’m finding out as time passes that I have a few more problems that keep popping up. Fatigue seems to be ruling my life at the moment. Last year, about this time, I could mow the grass and do some trim work with a weed wacker.

I have a very small yard so it shouldn’t be that big a deal to cut the grass. Wrong! I can cut the front yard the 1st day. Then I have to wait two days before I get enough energy to cut the back. Weed wacking is out of the question. I call this collateral damage.

It seems that fatigue is a fairly common problem for survivors of a brain aneurysm that popped. It has something to do with a depletion of some chemical that the brain produces.

The doctors said that I have a very low hormone count and that’s what is causing some of the fatigue problems. He didn’t have a good suggestion on how to cure the problem so I’m doing some research on it. I’ll let you know if I come across something.

A brain injury is about as bad as it gets. I class anything that messes up the brain as an brain injury; chemical imbalance, disease, aneurysms, migraine headaches. The list seems that it can go on forever.

I’ve learned a very hard lesson with my brain aneurysm. Everyday things I took I took for granted have changed.

1. Driving a car
2. Recognizing a friend
3. Recognizing your children
4. REmembering your birthday
5. Making change in a store
6. Mowing a lawn
7. Fixing a leaky faucet
8. Working for a living. (I'm trying the net affiliate programs. Note the commercials in the side panel? I think I might get into that more on the next post.)
   
9. Staying focused (My mind tends to wander at a rapid pace.)
   

Don’t get me wrong. I can do a lot of things that others, that suffered the same thing, can’t do. I realize that I have have a lot of setbacks and I’d better learn to deal with them.

That’s about it for today. The cursed fatigue monster is at me again.
Bye for now. Stay healthy and take care.

Dick…

Misdiagnosis of Symptomatic Brain Aneurysm:

Here is a very interesting article on brain aneurysms. I think it also covers how a stroke plays into this type of brain injury.
Misdiagnosis of Symptomatic Cerebral Aneurysm: Prevalence and Correlation With Outcome at Four Institutions -- Mayer et al. 27 (9): 1558 -- Stroke

I am of the firm belief that I had a stroke on April 3rd, 2002 and it caused a rapid increase in my blood pressure that in turn caused the developing brain aneurysm I had to rupture.

I also think that the stroke was fueled by the 400 mg. of Celebrix I was taking for a cronic back pain I have. The back problem is caused by two back opperations I had that screwed up my back even more.

A word of advice. Think twice before you let anyone cut your back open. The only thing I got out of it was a big glob of scar tissue that grows over all the nerves in the area of the operation. And that, of course, will only add to the troubles you had before the operations on your back.

Take care and stay healthy
Dick...