Teresa's Road to Recovery

In December 2015, our mum Teresa suffered a sub arachnoid brain haemorrhage, this hospitalised her for 4 months, she immediately underwent brain surgery to coil the aneurysm and to relieve the fluid build-up, an intracranial drain was inserted, unfortunately moments later another bleed was formed from the drain and she was rushed back to theatre to have this removed, a partial craniotomy and removal of the clot, with a second drain inserted she started her hard road to recovery.

We are lucky enough to still have our beautiful mother here with us today, after many sleepless nights, different hospitals and rehabilitation visits we are now just over a year into recovery where mum has learnt to open her eyes and regain basic movements, with months on a feeding tube she had to learn to eat food again and build her strength as she had lost so much weight lying in a bed day on end, learning to speak and eventually walk without the aid of another person or walker.