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Oh and I just found out that during my waiting time at the first hospital I vomited, copiously I might add. So tick the box for nausea post SAH. I do not recall any of this bit nor of the journey to Oxford from Reading, nor of being told this shortly after surgery. Tick the memory loss box too. Textbook. Great. An interesting and slightly funny little tidbit. During my stint in High Care for a few days I actually imagined we had been shipped to the Congo or some other part of Africa! Don't ask why, its embarrasing! The NHS has outsourced a fair bit of its service delivery but I was mildly surprised that it was economically viable to ship us to Africa to recover. I wasn't in a position to argue so I didn't make a fuss.

I second that comment Teechur. I also feel that life is too precious to waste on those wasteful pursuits. Then again I might forget all this and go back to the bad old me. Hope not.

Sorry to read about your experience Leslie. I wish you all the best and an eventual recovery from this trauma. My thoughts are with you. I can't really offer much by way of advice or experience as I am a 4 week newbie to this exclusive club of NASAH survivors.

Thank you for sharing. Good luck.

Newbie to this forum. Thanks Becky and April, indeed all of you for sharing your experiences. Good luck with your recoveries. I will post my own experience as time goes on. So far so good.

Dear all of you from far and wide Thank you so much for sharing your experiences here. My SAH happened about 4 weeks ago (on the night of Sunday 26th October 2014) and I am 2 weeks out of hospital from what the consultant on the penultimate day explained was a "Perimesencephalic subarachnoid haemorrhage" ... a bleed that, if you had to choose a subarachnoid haemorrhage would be the one everyone should select. It happened to me whilst sleeping in our youngest girl's room because she had a cough and has a tendency to vomit if she coughs too much. She's 20 months old. Me? I am male, 44 years old, ex light smoker (of 3 years) and not very physically active. No family history of SAH or the like. Its kind of daunting coming to terms with the future and what it might be like for me and my poor injured brain. My main symptoms since leaving hospital have really been the fatigue after a few hours of moderate human interaction, never mind actual paid work. Last weekend we spent the weekend at a nearby family resort (it had been booked for ages and was a long awaited chance to catch up with friends from years ago with their children too). Anyway, a large chunk of my weekend was spent sleeping in bed. I didn't partake of any of the activities on offer, but was quite alert and my old me when actually roused from sleep. On the last day I overdid the staying awake bit in order to share in the farewell lunch. Ouch! That taught me about my new and current limits! Not complaining though, So far I have been very lucky. Lucky that it was a small leak and not a big burst. Lucky that my wonderful wife realised my staggering into our bedroom and repeatedly saying "I can't do this" over and over again, whilst slurring my speech and before collapsing on our bed was not a regular "take some paracetomol and chill" type of incident. Lucky the ambulance came quickly and though I was perfectly lucid diagnosed me as needing to be taken to hospital for further evaluation. Lucky that I live where medical bills are not a concern whether employed or not. Lucky that my wife followed the ambulance to the 1st hospital and wouldn't stop badgering them to get me into neuroscience specialist hospital pronto. Lucky that John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK is not too far and is just such an establishment. Lucky that everything went went with the surgery, drainage tube, and that the consultant after 2 weeks eventually said "You are far too healthy to be here. What say you we get you out and send you home?" This site is a great resource for someone trying to find out about what the future can hold. I'd never heard of this type of brain haemorrhage before. Never knew the different variations in the severity and recovery. So I thank the moderators and creators of this site for having the idea and perseverance to create and maintain it. Thanks to all you contributors for sharing your experiences as they help enlighten a sometimes murky future. I will shortly post comments to posts that have helped me and where I feel I might be able to contribute but I wanted to introduce myself first. Well, it would be rude to just interject wouldn't it? All the best to all of you and thank you for being a great sight/site. Jules