Heartwarming Story About Mom Surviving A Stroke

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Jan 18, 2020 1:00 AM EST

It doesn't get much more heartwarming than this story about a mom surviving a terribly frightening stroke. She manages to get just the kind of clutch care that she desperately needed in a life-defining moment. 

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    Text - 19:59 ull Thread Darragh Doyle liked Liam Healy @drliamhealy "Mammy's not well" 5 year old Priya has FaceTimed her Dad, Damian, using the family iPad. Damian is on his way to work. It's been a busy few weeks for the family. His wife Mary, 35, is at home with their daughter and new 2 week old baby, Noah. It's two days before Christmas. 14:44 · 07/01/2020 · Twitter Web Client 517 Retweets 1,865 Likes Liam Healy @drliamhealy - 5h Replying to @drliamhealy Horrified, Damian sees from the iPad
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    Text - 19:59 ull Thread Liam Healy @drliamhealy Horrified, Damian sees from the iPad that his daughter is holding, that his wife Mary has collapsed to the ground. She is not moving. She can't speak. He quickly calls family members who live next door. They race to the house, calling an ambulance along the way. 14:44 · 07/01/2020 · Twitter Web Client 45 Likes Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h Replying to @drliamhealy An ambulance arrives. The paramedics suspect Mary has suffered a stroke. Within 15 minut
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    Text - 20:00 ull Thread Liam Healy @drliamhealy Mary is seen immediately by the Emergency Medicine and Stroke Teams together. She has suffered a catastrophic stroke. She can't speak. She can't swallow. She can't see properly. She is paralysed down her right hand side. 14:44 · 07/01/2020 · Twitter Web Client 40 Likes Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h Replying to @drliamhealy Advanced imaging shows that Mary has torn her left carotid artery, the main blood vessel bringing blood from her heart, through he
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    Font - 20:00 ll she has also blocked the left middle cerebral artery - the main blood vessel with the brain itself. 42 Liam Healy @drliamhealy · 5h Mary is critically ill. There is no blood getting to the left hand side of her brain. At just 35, this stroke will either kill her or leave her with severe disability, requiring nursing home care. The chances of her returning back home to her young family are no more than 5%. 41 Liam Healy @drliamhealy · 5h But. Marv has come to CUH - the busiest Twe
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    Text - 20:00 ull 1 41 Liam Healy @drliamhealy · 5h But, Mary has come to CUH - the busiest inpatient stroke centre in Ireland and 1 of just 2 hospitals in the country, that can provide stroke thrombectomy - the ability to acutely remove the blood clot causing the stroke. Mary is immediately prepped for an emergency thrombectomy. 01 74 Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h Consultant Interventional NeuroRadiologists Dr. Gerry Wyse and Dr. Noel Fanning, along with their team, quickly rebuild Mary's torn caro
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    Text - 20:00 ll Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h Within a week, Mary has no discernible stroke deficits. She can walk and talk, eat and drink, laugh and cry. She leaves hospital a little over a week later, stopping on the way with her husband Damian, to again meet the team that saved her life. 277 318 Liam Healy @drliamhealy - 5h I was't directly involved in Mary's care but I am enormously proud of the skill and dedication of my colleagues here in CUH who were able to save her life. She came to our ho
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    Text - ull? 20:00 most critical time in her life and received emergency care that is 3. 161 Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h comparable to any hospital in the world. There hasn't been any clinical intervention in medicine within the last decade as effective as stroke thrombectomy. Uniquely, for medical advances, it is also hugely cost effective, with large reductions in rehab and social care costs. 276 106 Liam Healy @drliamhealy 5h We have performed 77 thrombectomies in CUH in 2019, a 50% increase on
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    Text - 20:01 ull Thread StrOkE uTTIt that Cali provIUE comprehensive stroke care to the people of Cork and Munster, every hour of every day, every day of the year. We are making progress. 91 73 Liam Healy @drliamhealy Mary is back at home with her husband Damian and her now 5 week old son, Noah. Her daughter Priya is back playing on her iPad. (An enormous thank you to Mary and her family for giving us permission to tell her story). 14:44 · 07/01/2020 · Twitter Web Client 14 Retweets 550 Likes lo
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