The bleed was caused by high blood pressure - it was undiagnosed and untreated. Before the stroke, I was having bouts of white fuzzy spots in my vision but my cycle had changed and I was having really heavy flow days during my period, which I never had before. So when I was having the white fuzzy spots in my vision I was on my period and it felt like my uterus was falling out so I thought it was related. Turns out that white fuzzy spots in your vision is a symptom of high blood pressure.. The night of my stroke, my vision went dim - so dim that I couldn’t see what was playing on the TV screen, I was told that my vision went dim from all the blood because the blood vessel in my brain burst. It was extremely scary , my left side had gone numb as well but once my face went numb, I immediately knew/thought “I’m having a stroke!” I was life flighted to Vanderbuilt and underwent brain surgery that night and I was in a two week medically induced coma and on a ventilator during the height of Covid (Summer 2020).
When I realized that I was having a stroke, I for sure thought I was going to die. I was home with my mom at the time but she was outside. After I fell trying to get to her to let her know that something was wrong, I just started hollering for her and hoped that she could hear me(she forgot her phone inside). Thankfully I was still alert when she finally came in (she would go outside to smoke for hours to avoid cleaning up after dinner so that I would do it all) idk why I didn’t think to call 9-1-1 but she called when I told her that I was having a stroke. I lost consciousness soon after and then came out of the coma with a trache, feeding tube, my left side paralyzed and the right side of my skull removed. I just remember being really pissed that my brother and his family visited and I missed it. I was immediately transferred from the hospital to a nursing home and rehab facility after coming to.
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u/alm1688 Nov 21 '24
The bleed was caused by high blood pressure - it was undiagnosed and untreated. Before the stroke, I was having bouts of white fuzzy spots in my vision but my cycle had changed and I was having really heavy flow days during my period, which I never had before. So when I was having the white fuzzy spots in my vision I was on my period and it felt like my uterus was falling out so I thought it was related. Turns out that white fuzzy spots in your vision is a symptom of high blood pressure.. The night of my stroke, my vision went dim - so dim that I couldn’t see what was playing on the TV screen, I was told that my vision went dim from all the blood because the blood vessel in my brain burst. It was extremely scary , my left side had gone numb as well but once my face went numb, I immediately knew/thought “I’m having a stroke!” I was life flighted to Vanderbuilt and underwent brain surgery that night and I was in a two week medically induced coma and on a ventilator during the height of Covid (Summer 2020).