2023-11-02 10:20:11
A 40-year-old Minnesota woman who survived a brain aneurysm following struggling to call for help using Siri has urged relatives of those with a similar condition to get tested following saving her life. mother and her sister barely.
“If a member of your family has an aneurysm, screening should be a priority. […] My aneurysm had become so big that if I had not been screened and treated, I might not be here today,” her sister Neerja Patel, 45, told “The Sun” on Wednesday.
It was in 2017 that Shailja Ambrose, then aged 40, allegedly lost consciousness in the toilet at her job in Minnesota following suffering a burst brain aneurysm, that is to say a blood vessel bulged with blood, the British media reported.
Fortunately, she managed at the last minute to use her cell phone’s virtual assistant, Siri, to contact a colleague so that she might be quickly taken care of by hospital services.
But before her hemorrhage, the forty-year-old had never had any symptoms that would lead her to believe that she should be worried, she insisted to the British media.
“She doesn’t have headaches or migraines or vision problems, and she’s never had seizures or anything. It was only when she suddenly collapsed at work that she realized something was seriously wrong,” her sister said.
After surviving, she urged her family to get tested too. That’s when they discovered that his mother and sister suffered from the same condition, even to the point where one of the latter’s three aneurysms threatened to burst at any moment.
“I mightn’t believe I came in thinking everything was fine and was told I needed brain surgery [sur-le-champ]. Early detection can save your life, like mine,” said Neerja Patel.
If the two sisters tell their story today, it is because they want to educate the loved ones of a person suffering from this “silent killer” to get tested as soon as possible, knowing that 25 to 40% of those affected would lose their lives within 24 hours, according to data from the British National Health System (NHS), reported by “The Sun”.
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