Emilia Clarke shares about battling for her life

[cattledogkisses]

Holy crap.  While filming GoT, she had two aneurysms, a stroke, and multiple brain surgeries.  I'm glad that she's recovered, and hope nothing but the best for her from now on.

www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones

[LoveTrains]

What a powerful and personal story. She sounds so brave.

A colleague just lost her husband - age 49 - to a sudden brain bleed like this.

[nicbreeful]

My friend lost his wife to a brain aneurysm a year or two after their baby was born. She was in her late 20s. </3

[msmerymac]

My parents had a tenant who died in his sleep of an aneurysm in his mid-30s. They scare me so much! I also have a family history of stroke. :/

[Velar Fricative]

So scary. I'm glad she's okay. Brain aneurysms scare the crap out of me but I haven't known younger people who had them until now.

[Deleted]

Wow. That was incredible.

[cattledogkisses]

Mar 22, 2019 7:32:32 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

So scary. I'm glad she's okay. Brain aneurysms scare the crap out of me but I haven't known younger people who had them until now.

My sister’s fiancé lost his first fiancée to a brain aneurysm. I don’t remember her exact age, but I know she was quite young; early 20s, I think. 

It’s so scary because it seems like there aren’t really any definitive signs that anything is wrong until something catastrophic happens. 

[brooke77]

Wow, she’s amazing.

[racegrrl714]

I lost a classmate to a brain aneurysm when I was in high school. Crazy, scary stuff.

[pugz]

my sister in law had one during college while she was in the shower at my in laws house. It was when she and my BIL were still dating. They fortunately heard her fall and got her to the hospital right away. She did a year of rehab and was able to finish college. She still has some weakness on one side but it hasn't slowed her down much. It could have ended much differently. So scary.

[mala]

A friend of mine is in the hospital right now with an aneurysm. She went to the hospital for an intense headache, was diagnosed with a sinus infection but they also did an MRI and found the aneurysm. She's older, just became a grandma a few months ago, but it was still completely unexpected.

[aurora]

Scary.

mala, I hope your friend makes a full recovery.

[eli]

I'm mostly a lurker but wanted to share that I was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm exactly one year ago today and had a craniotomy to have it clipped last June. I was fortunate that when I told my doc during a routine physical that I was getting bad headaches behind my left eye she ordered an MRI. It all could have gone very differently since when my neurosurgeon got in there, he discovered it was so thin that it would have ruptured sooner than later. Right as I was being diagnosed my boss died of a ruptured brain aneurysm. And my grandma had an aneurysm that was diagnosed only because she had double vision. I appreciate Emilia Clarke so much for creating awareness about brain aneurysms and all of you for sharing your stories. I'm now making it part of my life work to raise awareness. Just wanted to share.