Four years ago, age 47, I felt a sudden pressure-type ache occur in my head while working out. I sat for a bit thinking it was just a head rush from the exercise I was doing. But the pain got worse and I started feeling nauseus. I'm a firefighter/EMT and was on duty at the time so I had my partner check my blood pressure, which was way high for me. I had an ambulance take me to the ER as I felt something was definitely wrong. A CT scan showed a ruptured brain anuerysm with SAH. I went into surgery to have the anuerysm clipped. I recovered fully from that event with no deficits. Three years later, while on vacation with my family in Disney World, the same anuerysm ruptured again, knocking me unconscious. I was rushed by ambulance to Orlando Regional Medical Center where I underwent endovascular coiling to stop the bleed. I recovered fully once again from this second bleed but have now been recently diagnosed with a small bubble forming on the surface of the same anuerysm. My neurosurgeon is following this closely with periodic angiograms and CT scans. Not sure how I have dodged these bullets, but I'm still here to continue to watch my two daughters grow up and to create many more memories with them and my wife!!
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Four years ago, age 47, I felt a sudden pressure-type ache occur in my head while working out. I sat for a bit thinking it was just a head rush from the exercise I was doing. But the pain got worse and I started feeling nauseus. I'm a firefighter/EMT and was on duty at the time so I had my partner check my blood pressure, which was way high for me. I had an ambulance take me to the ER as I felt something was definitely wrong. A CT scan showed a ruptured brain anuerysm with SAH. I went into surgery to have the anuerysm clipped. I recovered fully from that event with no deficits. Three years later, while on vacation with my family in Disney World, the same anuerysm ruptured again, knocking me unconscious. I was rushed by ambulance to Orlando Regional Medical Center where I underwent endovascular coiling to stop the bleed. I recovered fully once again from this second bleed but have now been recently diagnosed with a small bubble forming on the surface of the same anuerysm. My neurosurgeon is following this closely with periodic angiograms and CT scans. Not sure how I have dodged these bullets, but I'm still here to continue to watch my two daughters grow up and to create many more memories with them and my wife!!
April 30, 2015 - 7:51amThis Comment
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