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Sunday evening, around 9pm. I was relaxing at home with my husband, watching a documentary on telly. Suddenly, I felt this almighty, terrible pain in the back of my head. As the pain got worse, I just knew something was wrong. Me on holiday this year It was 2020 and I was 48, a social worker in Wigan. With three grown children and three dogs, life was a lovely routine of work, long, wooded walks and travelling with my husband. I didn’t know it then, but after that night, my l

Mum calls it her 'brain fart'. I know that name might seem crazy, but mum has been through the mill. She survived breast cancer and she's...

Julie was the heart and soul of the party. She was a fantastic mother, a fantastic wife, a fantastic Nana. We’d been together since we...

Dom with his family Overall, I'm very lucky. I have a nice, busy life, like many people. I’m a husband. I'm ‘Dad’ to three kids. I co-own my own recruitment business. I’m fit and healthy. I like running. The Day Everything Changed That's why what happened last June was a real bolt out of the blue. I was running on a treadmill and didn’t have a lot of time. I was doing interval sprints: quick bursts followed by rest. I set the treadmill on fast and did 45-second sprints, then

My name is Vicky and I work for Hugh James Solicitors in Manchester, a firm specialising in catastrophic personal injuries; brain...

I’ve heard that some people can’t remember anything when they have a brain haemorrhage. But I remember every moment. When it happened, I was in the sea. It was the middle of December and in the days before, I had these headaches, this feeling of pressure. I just didn’t feel quite right. But that day, I felt well enough to go for a swim. And then it happened. Everything felt strange and I passed out, right there in the water. I was lucky there was help at hand to get me out of

On the night of October 9th, everything seemed ordinary. I was hanging out with friends, enjoying the usual conversations and laughter, when suddenly, everything went dark. One moment, I was there, present and engaged in the moment, and the next, I was gone. Unconscious, my body collapsed and slipped into a state of terrifying uncertainty. No one knew what had happened, but the panic in their eyes said it all: something was terribly wrong. As my friends scrambled to help, I w

2nd November 2019 was a normal Saturday morning in our household. I was cooking breakfast and my husband Josh and kids Aubrey (4) and...

“I have been lucky…… very, very lucky.” On Friday 22nd January 2010, in my late 40’s, I went to work as usual, a very long commute and...

“My story begins on the 30th October 2023. I had spent my day of with a colleague out shopping and got a new wardrobe in which I was...

In January 2020, at just 27, Alex passed away from an unexpected Brain Haemorrhage.  His mother, Judy, tells his story. Words by Judy...

On 20th May 2011, Miles’ life, and that of his family, changed forever when his mum had a brain haemorrhage. This is his story.  The...

Brian had a brain haemorrhage at 32; “ I only went to the hospital for a bad headache”, he told NKMT. But that bad headache turned out to...

It all happened completely out the blue. I was always a pretty fit and healthy, I loved running regularly and running around after my...

I had my hemorrhagic stroke at 23 due to a cerebral AVM that had formed an aneurysm and ruptured on October 30th, 2020. We didn't know about the AVM prior but in hindsight explains my history of severe headaches. That night while playing video games late with friends I was struck with a blinding headache all of a sudden. Then when the left side of my body started tingling too I ran to call an ambulance and get help. My last memory is being on a stretcher at the top of my stai

I experienced my brain hemorrhage, otherwise referred to as a hemorrhagic stroke, when I was merely 17 years old.  I’m only 18 now, but...

“I was 51 when I experienced a significant brain haemorrhage caused by high blood pressure. " I was rushed to hospital where a scan showed the extent of the haemorrhage. I was then transferred to the nearest hospital with a neuro surgery team who performed a craniotomy, I have 2 large holes in my skull still from where they evacuated the hematoma, I was then transferred back to the first hospital where I spent 14 weeks on a stroke rehab ward. My recovery has been very hard  a

Having a brain haemorrhage, and resulting injury, has been weirdly one of the best things to ever happen to me. Despite the many, MANY hardships it presented, it made me rethink life and start to prioritise what really matters to me. “But, whilst it has taught me a lot, one of the biggest struggles which I didn’t expect, was how other people have dealt with it and how other people started to treat me…” Whilst I have had many, many, amazing people around me and supporting me t

Having a brain haemorrhage, and resulting injury, has weirdly been one of the best things to ever happen to me. Despite the many, MANY hardships it presented, it made me rethink life and start to prioritise what really matters to me. But, whilst it has taught me a lot, one of the biggest struggles which I didn’t expect, was how other people have dealt with it and how other people started to treat me… Whilst I have had many, many, amazing people around me and supporting me thr