Another day, another obituary.?ÿ A bundle of energy and joy died yesterday morning at 39 years of age.?ÿ One of the nicest young women I have ever known was taken down by a brain aneurysm.?ÿ This is one of those cases where people say, "I just saw her Friday and she appeared to be in perfect health.?ÿ How could this have happened?"?ÿ Typically, the rupture is the first sign that anything is wrong.?ÿ Then, it is almost too late.?ÿ In her case, she survived, at some level, for five days.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/brain-aneurysm/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20361595
Ruptured brain aneurysms are fatal in?ÿabout 50% of cases. Of those who survive, about 66% suffer some permanent neurological deficit. Approximately 15% of people with a ruptured aneurysm die before reaching the hospital. Most of the deaths are due to rapid and massive brain injury from the initial bleeding.
Over 30 years ago, a fellow a couple of years older than me went through this situation and survived with little in the way of long term issues.?ÿ He was simply watching his young son playing in a baseball game when he collapsed at the ball field about a half mile from a hospital.?ÿ One second he was watching a ball game and the next second he was waking up in a hospital bed in Omaha, Nebraska over 300 miles away.?ÿ Ten days had elapsed without his knowledge.
Deepest condolences for you and your family and friends, that's a really ****** deal.
Yes. Life happens really fast, always slipping through our fingers and fooling us to believe that we're in?ÿ control of the way it plays out.
Let me clarify.?ÿ This woman is a friend.?ÿ She is not related to me in any manner.?ÿ Unless you count her husband's brother used to be married to my nephew's wife's sister.
She worked in the courthouse, then changed over to working in the bank two blocks away.?ÿ Then she came back to the courthouse in a different role, only to discover her supervisor was a fool.?ÿ She left there to work in an insurance office but couldn't handle the stress.?ÿ So, she went to work for her husband full-time managing their custom slaughter facility and meat sales business.?ÿ Very talented.?ÿ A very positive and friendly person who would help anyone if she could.?ÿ Left behind her husband, two teenage daughters and a teenage foster daughter.
She was the kind of person the world needs more of.
It always makes me sad to hear about folks that leave this world in the prime of their life.?ÿ?ÿ
I had a classmate in wood shop years ago that collapsed mid-stride one day as class let out.?ÿ It was an aneurysm is his head.?ÿ That one freaked out all of the rest of us for a good long time.?ÿ I guess that was the first time I realized that even people as young as I was could die from a natural cause.
Only the good die young.
I had a friend die of an aneurysm at 30 years old.?ÿ He had played in a softball game and was taking a shower to get ready to go out for supper when he just dropped dead.?ÿ His wife was a nurse and classmate of my wife.?ÿ She heard him fall and began CPR but there was no hope.?ÿ We take it for granted that we'll be here tomorrow, but it sure isn't guaranteed.?ÿ
Andy
A classmate of mine died that way in his 30's while playing tennis.?ÿ He had played all sports including football in school.
A past president of our church died last month in his 50's of brain bleed.?ÿ He had been a very active guy, scout leader, and a regular in the New Year's "Polar Bear" plunge into icy waters. That tends to spike the blood pressure.
I wonder if those experiences toughened the blood vessels or stressed them for later failure.
