1st of all props to you for even being this strong or feeling the need to save other FFA folks with this PSA. My heart goes out to your wife, Godspeed and a full recovery. Second, i think this is strong information and something I have not thought about. Sounds like a good idea.
If there is anything we can do Boot, sorry you are having to struggle with this. Do you have resources to get you thru or are you having to call in laws yet? Don't be ashamed to reach out to mom n dad, would not call upon your wife's parents.
What age is your wife if you don't mind.
I assume above everything you are just happy she is likely to pull thru and make a full recovery. Ts&Ps
She is 51. We have 3 kids. 2 are young, 10 and 7. The funny thing is she always worried about aneurysms. Had headaches and a history of aneurysms in the family. Just 3 months ago went to the doctor complaining about them. Had a CT done but nothing showed up. I've come to learn that a CT would not have shown potential aneurysms so I wonder why they did it. I also wonder if they offered my wife the test that would have shown if she was at risk. Based on her family history and her complaints of headaches they should have done a different test. This is something I'm going to circle back on later. Money wise, I'm good for now. I'm blessed to have a great job that pays well. She was talking to me when this happened. We both work from home. I was already working from home and then she go a job where she also was working from home, I aint going to lie, I thought it would suck having her also work from home. 24/7 with your spouse, YUCK! But we got along great. (Oh how I miss my wife now). She worked upstairs and me downstairs. The day it happened, she came downstairs to send a fax. We were laughing about how messy and unorganized she is. She said to me man my head hurts after going to the dentist, i asked her what did they do? She was behind me at this time and I couldnt see her. I heard her call out my name. I again asked her, what did they do? She didnt respond. So I got up and found her slumped on the floor. I called 911 and she was at the hospital within 45 minutes.
The Doctor spoke to me...and it was grim. Their whole group, probably 7 doctors who have seen over 50,000 aneurysm cases have only seen 3 cases of this type of aneurysm, Initially they told me there was nothing they could do except get her to stabilize. Our family is very religious type. We all prayed like crazy. The next day the Dr told us that over the night the shape of the aneurysm changed and they could now perhaps attempt to coil it. Miracle. They coiled it and it was successful. My wife is quite the rock star on the unit.
I have however had to go MOP on one of the nurses. He was awful and got voted off the island. Thats another piece of advice. You are your best advocate. If you dont like something, let them know. Demand change! I did and things are much better now.
So now it has been 4 weeks. Only 2 days ago did we start talking about quality of life, before that it was "is she going to live." She's had 4 strokes. YIKES! But its amazing, the areas affected are not that big of a deal. 2 of the areas dont even do anything modern science can determine. I was told the wake up period could take up to a month. Yet my wife already responds to commands! like open your eyes, move your toes, give a thumbs up!!!! I would never have thought that opening your eyes was such a huge deal. The blessings we all take for granted are amazing.
She could/will have a complete recovery. My wife is wonder woman.
