About Me: Female, 51, Stockton - CA, member since Jun 2008
I am a brain aneurysm survivor. I suffered a SAH about 2004 and the doctor that I had at the time said I suffered a stroke. No MRI was performed. I did not know at the time that I had suffered a SAH. About a year or so after my SAH, I started suffering vision loss for
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[More] a few seconds at a time.
At first I thought it was stress. Buying a new house for the first time, the long commute, the job. The frequency of the vision loss became so frequent that I went to another doctor early 2007 where he diagnosed an aneurysm on the optical nerve of my right eye.
My brain aneurysm surgery was in March 2007. Since the surgery, I have lost my short-term memory and my 21 year career in the aviation industry. I find it difficult to read novels so I have begun reading poetry again.
I no longer drive my car or operate my Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I was forced to medically retire due to the short-term memory loss.
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