My pregnancy was overall okay. I had some issues myself , along with my baby girl. But it wasn’t terrible. I got induced on October 2nd at 10pm. My water accidentally broke during the foley balloon insertion and from there everything went downhill. 24 hrs later I was taken back for an emergency c section due to my baby being in distress and me spiking a high temperature. My baby girl was born and we were taken to our postpartum room. Immediately upon arrival to our room my blood pressure was sky rocketing then plummeting. My room filled with nurses and my husband and I were getting zero answers as to what was happening. I wasn’t having any symptoms during this time so once my blood pressure leveled out the nurses left.

The next morning I started having odd symptoms. Headaches , nausea , vision changes , horrible neck pain , and no strength. I told the nurses and they told me it was from the epidural and I needed a blood patch. I refused multiple times and they said if I didn’t want it then they couldn’t help me. I was sent home two days later and 24 hours after being home my symptoms intensified. I went to the er up the street and got an iv since I couldn’t keep anything down , I ultimately got discharged and got told I needed a blood patch as well. I returned the next day and thankfully got admitted overnight. The next morning three drs entered my room to inform me I had suffered an hemorrhagic stroke and there was an active bleed in my brain. I was airlifted twenty minutes later to a different hospital where I spent two weeks in the icu. Two weeks away from my newborn baby who needed her mom, and the first two weeks of her life I never got to see. The neurologist who cared for me told me I was a walking miracle and there was no way I should’ve lived for as long as I did with this active bleed. This was the scariest time in my life. He suspects I developed pre eclampsia and left untreated it turned into that.