When you had your Subarachnoid Haemhorrage, how did you know something was wrong?

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What happened during your hospital admission following your subarachnoid haemorrhage?

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Initially, the A&E nurses thought I just got a cold and that's why I got a headache. But then, eventually, when I did see an A&E doctor, he thought I just got viral meningitis. But they needed to do a CT scan of me and a lumbar puncture just to rule out subarachnoid haemorrhage because I was over 40. And then eventually, it was probably about another hour later, I was moved from the A&E department to a short stay ward. And on my way, the doctor stopped us in the corridor and spoke to my mum and said Oh, we need to take Jane to a quiet place. And my first thought was, I've got an aneurysm, haven't I? And he said, Yes. We need to transfer you to a neuro-centre. So I was transferred to a neuro-hospital. So I was blue lighted and ambulanced. And then when I arrived at the other hospital, I had lots of people all around me, hooking me up to things, examining me. And then the next... So that was about midnight on the Thursday night. And then later on that morning, I had to go for another set of scans and a neuro interventional radiologist came to see me and said, We need to sort you out today. So I then went down to theatre where I had embolisation of the aneurysm that I didn't know I had until then. Obviously, I survived. That's why I'm sitting here. And then I woke up and I was back on the neuro intensive ward. And I still had a headache. But then, unfortunately, I ended up with hospital acquired pneumonia. So then I had to go back into intensive care. So I got much worse. But then it was about two weeks later, I was discharged from the hospital and everything was fine.

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