When most people think back on their wedding day, their eyes fill with tears of nostalgia and they wish they could relive the celebrations.
But Christy Aaron draws a blank.
Just two and a half weeks after marrying her husband Jake Aaron in September 2018, the small business owner from Alabama suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage.
Doctors gave him a 10 percent chance of survival. She survived, but she remembers nothing of the three years before the deadly attack.
‘Jake shows me videos and photos of the wedding, but they don’t make my brain remember. To me, the photographs look like a woman at a wedding and nothing more,” she said.
Christy and Jasper Aaron married in September 2018, but 17 days later Christy suffered a brain hemorrhage that robbed her of the memory of the special day.
Christy was rushed to the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham by helicopter after doctors discovered the bleeding.
Mrs Aaron, now 31, hopes to say “I do” to her husband again in a wedding he will remember.
Her ordeal began one afternoon in September 2018, when she noticed a migraine coming on.
She didn’t think much about it, until she woke up the next morning feeling like her head was about to explode.
“I was having migraines… I woke up burning up, so I jumped in the shower and stood under cold water,” she said. the led.
My temperature was very high and my right leg felt numb.
They settled into Walker Baptist Medical Center, where doctors told Mrs. Aaron that her blood pressure was “through the roof.”
Medications to try to lower his blood pressure did not seem to work. Her doctors decided to do a CT scan, as Mrs. Aaron began to slip into a coma.
“At this point she no longer had much control over her body,” her husband wrote in a Facebook post recounting the ordeal.
“It was very difficult for me to keep her still enough for the scan.”
A doctor told him that his wife had a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm and needed to be seen by a neurosurgeon as soon as possible.
She was rushed by helicopter to the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham and, after spending 57 days there and undergoing multiple surgeries, she was able to leave.
But the hard work was just beginning, as he had to relearn how to talk and walk.
Nearly six years after the aneurysm, he is still undergoing physical and speech therapy, and has been left with vision problems.
The couple hopes to have their wedding again, but they plan to wait until Mrs. Aaron is back to full health.
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or bulging blood vessel. It can leak and cause bleeding in the brain, which can be life-threatening.
Symptoms of a ruptured aneurysm include sudden severe headache, nausea and vomiting, stiff neck, blurred or double vision, sensitivity to light, seizures, and loss of consciousness.
An unruptured aneurysm may not have any symptoms and may not require treatment.
The causes of brain aneurysms are often unclear, as was the case with Ms. Aaron’s.
Risk factors for brain hemorrhages include high blood pressure, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and old age.
Treatment may include surgery or medications to restore blood flow and relieve pain.