mikedee1957

Hi Mike

Welcome to the site!

Great account of your SAH. You were also lucky to be out of hospital after a week. It is good they located your SAH so quickly.

The emotional side of things does take time. I am nearly 2 years post-Sah and most of the time I am okay but occassionally I feel very emotional about it all. It has got a lot better though and I did have some counselling initially.

Take care of yourself and try to allow yourself to rest and heal.

Kel

thanks for your kind words

x

Hello Mike,

Welcome to this wonderful site. It's been a god send to me.

The H Plan is a good diet, I lost about a week AND a stone, oooh get me!! Shame I've put it back on though!

Your post bought a tear to my eye and it made me laugh, very well written.

As others have said, take time to recover and have patience with yourself. Read ' a letter from your brain ' on the home page, it's a fantastic bit of writing. I draw strength from it often.

I wish you well with your recovery.

Take care and keep smiling,

SarahLou Xx

thankyou so much

people keep asking me when i'll be "back to normal" !!!!

little do they know i never was!!!!!!!!!!!:lol:

Hi Mike,

Welcome; and thanks for sharing your account. I look forward to 'chatting' more soon.

I agree that the 'Haemorrhage Plan' is a very good diet. I lost three days!!!

Lynne

thats funny!!

how long ago was yours?

thanks for the aDVICE

trouble is i'm so used to doing lots that doing a little seems lazy!!

Warm welcome to the site Mike look forward to chatting to you

donna

thanks donna.

Friday afternoon, 7th October 2011

So there i was sat on the laptop, doing some work.

I'd had a headache, the numbing "oh it'll go away" type for the past few days.

Next minute I saw the images on screen go wavy, there was a bright white flash and..................

............."why is someone cradling my head? why can i feel blood on my head, my back, see it on the floor around me? Why is someone telling me an

ambulance is coming? Who needs an ambulance. Grief my head hurts!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'd blacked out, fallen onto our Stone floor, and was found gurgling, bleeding and mid-seizure by my wife. She got someone to dash to the neighbours

next door whilst she dialled 999. This couldnt be happening to Mike. He's never been ill. He's active fit and healthy.

Fortuneately the neighbours mother was there, she's a nurse and she came round, got me into recovery and took control.

Grief my head is gonna explode!!!!!!!!!

I'm put in the ambulance.

"Turn that siren off!!!"

Feel every road bump on the 15 minute ride to the Calderdale Hospital.

"Will someone please remove this head!!!"

You have no idea what's happening to you, but you know this is serious. Am I gonna die?

I'm cleaned up, my blue shirt is now red with blood, I'm told to stay awake, I'm put back in the ambulance for a half hour ride to Leeds General Infirmary.

I understand that somethings wrong with my head. But what? My wife's in the ambulance, telling me I'm going to be OK but I can see the fear in her

eyes.

I dont even care about the pain now, just let me go.

A weekend of pure agony whilst the powers that be decide what to do with me. Ive had a brain haemorrhage. Me-impossible!!! I'm indestructible arent !?

I feel like I'm going to die. People are visiting me I haven't seen in years. I know they are there. Are they coming to say goodbye?

Monday

I'm going for an operation. Through my groin???? Mad thought comes to me that I'm glad I didn't damage my groin or they'd be going through my brain?????!!!!!!!!!!!!

Six hours in operation, I can feel myself coming round. God I'm alive and i can feel someones taken the metal belt thats been squeezing my head since

friday off!!!

Now hows this for recuperation???

By Friday I'm home!!!! Yes, one week later!!!!

I'm weak, I'm tired, I've lost a stone- good diet this- the H(aemorage) Plan!!

Wednesday, gone out for a walk!!!!

No visible side effects!!

Inside not so great, bit weepy (NOT me!!), worried about the long term effects, tired obviously, and lost some of my sense of taste.

But hey, I'm here

I know it's gonna be slow progress, and I'll have to change the way I live but every day I feel a little more like me.

Dont give up.

Hope this helps someone.