Feelings after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
I (27M) had an SAH last Monday whilst in the gym and have been in hospital for the last 10 days whilst the doctors try to work out what happened. I have just had a second angiogram to to confirm that no aneurysm was present and they seem to think it was just a random thing and that I over exerted myself in the heatwave we’ve just had in the UK.
I’m feeling a lot of different emotions right now, obviously there’s a huge amount of relief as I know I’ve been so lucky to come out of this with no obvious physical or mental effects, I realise this is very rare and I know I’ll never take that for granted. The people I have met in the brain injury ward have all been so lovely and many have not been as lucky as me in terms of long term effects. Brain injuries are so cruel in their suddenness and what they take away from people.
Although I feel extremely blessed, I’m also extremely nervous about going back to real life knowing that this could happen again, the doctors are saying that I have just as much risk as anyone else of that being the case, but the anxiety is going to be very hard to get past I think. Does anyone have any tips of how they were able to get back to a normal life?