I Can't Remembered What Really Happened
25 January 2005
I had a subarachnoid hemorrage in May 2000. My son wrote a retrospective account 2½ years after my hemorrage. I can't remember what really happened to me. I was left with blood in one eye. I had a operation to remove the blood. Is this a common thing?
I now suffer with depression and daily headaches. Sometimes I wonder if I would be better off not being here. It's been nearly 5 years and still can't come to terms with how my life has changed.
My son, Danny's retrospective account:
GROWING UP
One Friday my mum went to the city. Two hours later she went home and was surprised to see dad's car parked in the drive. "That's strange", she thought. She could not find him anywhere, so she rushed up stairs to find my dad very ill. He was curled up in a ball and throwing up everywhere. She realised that he was seriously ill so she immediately rang for an ambulance. They were here in 10 minutes and took him away.
At the time, I was in year six at Horsford Middle School. I came home to find my dad gone, and my mum in tears. I didn't understand what was happening. Later I found that my Dad had a brain Aneurysm. My dad has been ill for two and a half years. It has been very hard looking after the house because really I have been the man of the house. My two younger brothers didn't really know what was going on but they kept asking me question. Where is dad? Or why isn't he taking me to school? Danny I want him to take me. All I could do was be honest and reply I don't really know myself, but I'm sure he will be alright. Don't worry.
It has taken two years for my dad to recover and I'm pleased to say he is back at home and back to his normal self. In these two years I had to grow up a lot. Going up to Hellesdon is going to be scary but not as scary as going home to find my dad in hospital.
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