{"id":390783,"date":"2022-01-07T01:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-felt-my-brain-pop-and-suffered-a-stroke\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:12:44","slug":"i-felt-my-brain-pop-and-suffered-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-felt-my-brain-pop-and-suffered-a-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"#I felt my brain \u2018POP\u2019 and suffered a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a32990f34340\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-felt-my-brain-pop-and-suffered-a-stroke\/#%E2%80%98LITTLE_MIRACLE\" >\u2018LITTLE MIRACLE\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#I felt my brain \u2018POP\u2019 and suffered a stroke<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When mom Bridget Chiovari was out on a hike with friends and their children she didn\u2019t think anything of having to stop for a break.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old took her 18-month-old daughter Liliana out of her carrier for a bit of respite and felt a popping sensation in her head.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget, who was also 24 weeks pregnant with her second child at the time, felt an intense dizziness and horrific headache, but decided to hike home in the hope that the strange sensation would go away.<\/p>\n<p>But that evening her headache continued to get worse and the Arizona mom said her husband Chris, 33 took her to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She said that she explained to medics there that she felt a pop and then experienced an awful headache.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget added: \u201cI even said \u2018I\u2019ve never had a brain aneurysm before but I imagine that this is what it must feel like.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hooked me up to an IV bag, gave me some Tylenol, told me it was dehydration, then sent me home to \u2018sleep it off\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin 12 minutes of leaving the hospital, I had lost my ability to form words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family returned to the hospital once more where her husband demanded that she was given a CT scan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"904\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=904\" alt=\"Bridget Chiovari and her daugther\" class=\"wp-image-20741882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1808 1808w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1356 1356w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=904 904w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=452 452w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\"\/><figcaption>Bridget was 24 weeks pregnant with her second child when she experienced the headache.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jam Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The scan revealed that Bridget actually had an arteriovenous malformation \u2014 a tangle of abnormal blood vessels which had become so tangled, one had burst, causing a massive stroke.<\/p>\n<p>She had been born with the condition and had no idea it had been there until it popped.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget said: \u201cI had an intraventricular drain placed into my skull. This allows that excess blood and fluids to leave your body while they wait for the swelling of the brain to go down. This is the part that saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridget said she wasn\u2019t aware that what had h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to her had been a stroke, until she joined a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> group of people who had suffered her condition.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"636\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=636\" alt=\"Bridget Chiovari\" class=\"wp-image-20741884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1272 1272w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=954 954w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=636 636w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=318 318w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\"\/><figcaption>Bridget was pregnant with her youngest child, Roman. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jam Press Vid<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=669\" alt=\"Bridget Chiovari\" class=\"wp-image-20741888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1338 1338w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1003 1003w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=669 669w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=334 334w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\"\/><figcaption>After being released from the hospital, Bridget had to go back because she could not form words.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jam Press Vid<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was another member who explained that a rupture is called a hemorrhagic stroke.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI was completely thrown off by it. Prior to my stroke, I thought that only elderly people had strokes, and I also thought that strokes were something that happened to your heart\u2026 not your brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very confused by the whole thing for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridget spent three weeks in hospital and the location of the bleed luckily meant that her mobility had not been affected.<\/p>\n<p>She does however continue to suffer with dizziness and nausea.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98LITTLE_MIRACLE\"><\/span>\u2018LITTLE MIRACLE\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Bridget had been pregnant at the time of the incident and another miracle was that her baby was fine and baby Roman was born on 14 November, weighing in at 5lb and 14oz.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt definitely made the rest of my pregnancy very uncomfortable to me, but my baby stayed perfectly happy and healthy in my belly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy doctors all agreed that delivering naturally shouldn\u2019t be attempted, so I did have to have a C-section at 37 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five years on, Bridget is still impacted by the stroke and has been undergoing treatment to remove the rest of the AVM.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Bridget Chiovari\" class=\"wp-image-20741879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bridget pictured with her son, Roman.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jam Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt affects me every day, in all sorts of ways. I still suffer with the side effects of having a brain injury, and depression and PTSD doesn\u2019t make it any easier<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rupture happened in my cerebellum, so my balance is affected. I get dizzy incredibly easily and walking in a straight line isn\u2019t always doable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTasks take a lot more energy than they used to, and keeping up with my two kids is a constant battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really try not to focus on my deficits\u2026 because at this point.. I have learned what that can do to one\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I have also been privileged enough to see life from an incredibly unique perspective. I see things differently, feel things more deeply, and live everyday life with such great intention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridget had been having regular treatment but just a few months ago she was told her AVM was gone.<\/p>\n<p>She explained how the last treatment she had was linear radiation, where they have a plastic mask which is made to custom fit your face.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget said: \u201cThey then use this mask to bolt your face down to the table, so that you aren\u2019t able to move your head. They zap you with some kind of radiation, and slowly over time it obliterates the AVM.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Bridget Chiovari\" class=\"wp-image-20741881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mom-brain-pop-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bridget still experiences side effects such as becoming dizzy and feeling unbalanced.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jam Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey estimated it would take 1-2 years for the radiation to get rid of my AVM. I would go in twice a year to get scans and procedures done to check on the size of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a little bit longer than expected, (3.5 yrs) but they finally declared it treated in November 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Bridget has been sharing her story on TikTok with one video getting over 1.2 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Many followers have praised how strong she had been for continuing on the hike after experiencing the pop, with many saying more awareness was needed of the condition.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/health\/4407135\/brain-pop-stroke-pick-up-daughter\/\"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a><em> and has been reproduced here with permission.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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