No, she had two intracranial hemorrhages, hemorhagic strokes, that were caused by aneurysms. She had two strokes because both or her two aneurysms ruptured and bled into her brain.
I'm astonished that she made such a complete recovery, because FYI once there's an active bleed into the brain, there isn't that much that modern medicine can do. They can stop the bleeding and relieve intracranial pressure, but they can't restore lost brain tissue or remove blood that's destroying brain cells. Recovery rates for intracranial hemorrhages are poor, and she's very lucky to have both survived, and have suffered no disabilities, and that was probably due to good care and her youth.
It's a fact that young people can recover from brain injuries much better than older people, which is kind of a pity because it's the older folks who need to recover most often.
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prometheus1816 (1060)
6 years ago
The two hemorrhages meant just that. She had two bleeds, not strokes. Luke Perry had a stroke. Bleeds into the brain do not automatically cause strokes. Both of them were gotten to immediately so neither caused anything other than a brief interruption of her speech, hence the Aphasia. She also had good surgeons who caught both before damage could be done. Actor Tim Curry had a full stroke, hence his having to be confined to a wheel chair. This was because the bleeds in his brain caused massive damage. Emilia's didn't. There are women who have had bleeds during birth and suffer strokes afterwards. It depends on the flip of the coin as to who recovers or who doesn't. Luke Perry wasn't all that old, but his was a massive bleed into his brain causing that massive damage. Emilia's was not as bad due to the urgency of her symptoms causing doctors to operate.
The media keeps calling them strokes, they were not. They were bleeds not strokes. The two are different in their symptoms. The Aphasia she had was due to the bleed but not indicative of a stroke. She mentions that this type of bleed can cause a stroke, but nowhere in the Op-Ed does she say she suffered a stroke.
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Otter (24464)
6 years ago
FYI there are two basic kinds of stroke, the more common embolic stroke where a blood clot cuts off the supply of blood to part of the brain, and the hemorrhagic stroke where there is an actual bleed into the brain. Both can cause mild or severe brain damage.
Look up the term "hemorrhagic stroke" before you respond. And be warned, I know more about this subject than you do.
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