Story of Recovery: Catie Stillwell's Brain Injury | Brooks Rehabilitation

After experiencing a pulmonary embolism and cardiac arrest, Catie Stillwell was resuscitated for 10 minutes. See her amazing story of recovery!
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[@adawg3032]

My girlfriend went into cardiac arrest and she is on life support with a hypoxic brain injury she is breathing through a tube but her heart works she took 30 minutes to recesitate and I’m just hoping for the best

[@MrMysteryman2011]

Any updates brother ?

[@cakerus111]

Updates

[@rss11763]

I also had a cardiac arrest. It took them 16 minutes to revive me. I was diagnosed with lance Adam’s syndrome. I was in two different inpatient rehab facilities. It was over a year before I came home and then started outpatient rehab and been 3 years I’m still in rehab but I’m still very disabled. It happened when Covid-19 first came out. And after my second infection. 5 days later. I dropped dead of cardiac arrest. I was 58 in great health. I walked an hour every day. And lifting weights 6 days a. Week. I owned my own construction company for 30 years and was very active every day. Now I sit in my chair from 6 AM till 9 PM watching TV every day. This is my life for the last three years.

[@cakerus111]

on 3 june 2023 my brother went unconscious His eyes rolled back ...and doctors told us that he has a heart attack and as a result have hypoxic brain injuury... there is no complete treatment He was a healthy person before... Its been 4 months now almost initially he can only open his eyes with limited look around movement.. now He can move his lips tongue and eyebrows a little. And he also started to yawn.. and few times ..very few times..move his elbow,feet finger,shoulder and head a little. When something is put in his mouth he try to chew it Almost after a month he started breathing on his own... initially was put on a ventilator He was initially having food through NG tube now doctors have inserted through stomach what they say as "peg tube". He also have tracheostomy tube in the neck Also mri scans have shown global or severe hypoxic brain injuury He is only 33 . he also produce tears in both eyes.. he cannot even control his head ... ... Right now he is discharge from the hospital and we are caring for at home we are doing physiotherapy ourselves. To protect him from bed sores We are changing his position every hour on bed

[@hortenciac878]

Prayers for your brother and your family. It is tough but dont lose faith.

[@cakerus111]

@@hortenciac878 i lost my brother a month ago

[@akankshapriya3628]

How is your brother now.. any improvement???

[@cakerus111]

@@akankshapriya3628 we lost him....last year

[@brianlutton3845]

Prayers.. I’m sorry.. how has it been