动脉瘤手术后重新唤醒大脑

神经外科十大赌博平台排行榜告诉她肿瘤无法手术. 她选择了观望的态度, getting annual MRIs instead of having her brain biopsied, 一个使她害怕的前景. But when a friend found her unresponsive in bed a few weeks later and called 911, Chain was admitted to the Neurointensive Care Unit at UCSF Medical Center.

After surgery to treat an aneurysm and remove her tumor, Chain spent two months in a "living coma" – awake and working to relearn basic skills like talking and chewing, 但她对自己的遭遇毫无记忆.

Before you fainted, did you know something was wrong?

一点也不. 我认为自己是一个健康的年轻人. But at the same time, I had severe headaches that I would sleep off for two days. I would go to bed on a Saturday and wake up on Monday. 我不知道这有什么大不了的, but at the hospital in Shanghai (where I was living at the time), I found out I had hydrocephalus and I was going into what were essentially mini-comas. The hydrocephalus was blocking all of my cerebral spinal fluid from draining, causing me to go into really long periods of sleep, 我有短期失忆. I would repeat myself over and over in conversations.

你在上海做了手术吗?

是的，脑分流手术. They needed to relieve all the pressure, drain the fluid and put a shunt in my head. They did a great job; I'm alive.

然后你回到了美国.S.?

康复后，我飞回了美国.S. to continue seeking opinions and treatment options. Several neurosurgeons diagnosed me with an inoperable brain tumor. 它看起来是良性的，但他们还不知道. There was no sense of urgency to test it for cancer. The only hospital that went against everyone was actually UCSF.

So, you initially chose another hospital because you didn't want to have surgery?

UCSF wanted to do a brain biopsy because they said my brain scans were inconclusive, but after it was described to me what a brain biopsy was, 听起来很可怕, 我说, “谢谢，但不用了,我选择了另一家医疗机构. I liked that this other hospital was very reputable – one of the top hospitals in the country, 很棒的神经外科项目, and I liked their answer of "You are going to be fine. 一切正常.“这就是我当时想听到的.

你是怎么在加州大学旧金山分校做手术的?

I actually fell into a coma in my sleep after I had an aneurysm burst. I was living alone, but by some miracle I had a friend in town visiting and she called 911. The ambulance arrived and they said I wasn't breathing. I had to be intubated and then they brought me to UCSF.

描述你的术后恢复情况:

我在6月21日做了脑部手术, 2011, and I woke up shortly after in what physicians call a living coma – something I had never heard of before – and that was a period where I was awake and learning to walk and talk again, 但我不知道发生了什么事.

你能描述一下什么是活昏迷吗?

They explained to my family: Erica is not in a medically induced coma, 她醒着, 她开始走路了, 她开始说话了, 她能自己呼吸了, 但她什么都不知道. I had to be taught how to test if a stove is hot, to dial 911, and how to turn on a computer. When they asked where I lived, I said, "Timbuktu," so at least I am creative in a coma. My mom has said I was like a baby who grew up very rapidly. She even wrote down my first word, the first day I talked. Before I could talk they would tell me to answer using my eyes by blinking or using thumbs up and thumbs down.

Was that disorienting to lose two months of your life?

我不记得住过十大赌博平台排行榜. I started picking up photograph snapshots from rehab and then that's when I started forming memories. The doctors told me in rehab that when your brain goes through a significant trauma it just stops recording, 所以如果我的大脑没有记录, I wasn't forming new memories and that's why I didn't know what happened.

Describe the moment it all hit home and you realized what had happened.

所以，我在8月6日醒来，打电话给我妈妈. 我说:“妈妈，我想我知道发生了什么.她说:“发生什么事了??我说:“我做过脑部手术。.我妈妈只是说:“好吧，十大赌博靠谱网络平台回来。.然后她哭了起来.

康复怎么样??

复苏糟透了. You get pushed to the limit and you're exhausted. 戒毒所结束后，我会睡上几个小时. 我需要24小时监护. 我很困惑. Thank God for my friends and family, who were there for me through the whole thing. It's different for every patient, but I've actually recovered really quickly. 接受这个，三年复苏!

这些天你感觉怎么样?

I feel blessed, I feel lucky, I feel great, I feel healthy. As a young adult I never thought I was invincible, but I know I took my health for granted because I had never had a medical issue before. Now I understand what being healthy means and today I feel healthy, happy and very, very lucky.