I had a massive stroke when i was 26 weeks pregnant, extremely healthy with a lowish blood pressure throughout the pregnancy. in fact the day of the stroke it was 116/65 I was walking beyween 5 and 12 miles per day. No protein in urine. def not pre-eclampsia.. A very normal saturday. had normal saturday morning.... A bit of 'how's your father with husband and, excuse the crudeness but I came ( twice apparently - but i dont remember that bit! more's the pity as it must have been good to nearly kill me. but i do remember literally the moment I 'came' getting a searing pain in my head (similar to 'brain-freeze' when you drink an icy drink on a hot day.... the pain wouldn't stop and i knew that something very bad was happening. I had no oother stroke symptoms, speech was finne. All I had was intensepain. I was rushed to hospital where I promptly had another stroke in the scanner. got transfered to a a specialist hospital where I remained in a coma until I had brain surgery as I wasn't improving .. about a week later I started to respond and after a few more weeks went into rehab. where i stayed until I was 38 weeks pregnant and had my daughter by c-section. luckily she was ok - perfect in fact. No brain damage and now i'm attempting to rebuild a shattered life..... I t all seemed so unfair. I had infertility for 8 years, miscarriage after miscarriage, including ectopic . I feel so blessed to have our daughter but overwhelmingly sad that due to the severe disabilities that remain, namely unable to walk, or use my left arm or hand at al, none of the dreams of motherhood have happened. I never even bought a pram... when I should have been doing that, I was being measured up for a specialist wheelchair.... Now that will go down in my memory as one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life... even the OT was in tears.
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