Marcus

Hello, in January my wife, 36, suffered a SH. After a miraculous recovery we submitted a claim on our critical illness policy. I had already read the various posts on this thread and they were very useful, luckily our claim was paid out as I was prepared for it and left the correct paper trail. This may sound a bit business like, but the insurance company need a reason to pay you. Firstly, log your SH as a Haemorrhagic stroke, which it is, some insurers don't pay out for a brain haemorrhage so word it correctly. When your partner returns home, he/ she will have side effects, attend the doctors to get them logged (more than once) , the most important bit though is to keep ringing your consultants secretary to log the side effects on your partners case notes because eventually a report from the consultant will be asked for from the insurance company. Another poster stated that your worst day is the one you describe, this is correct, just because you don't have all the side effects every day doesn't matter. For my wife I made sure on her case notes was, numbness, dizziness, taste problems, lethargy, vision problems all of which she has at some point in her recovery. It is so important to get this logged down. Good luck.