After getting a severe headache at the gym, “I ran to the toilet, got down on my knees and got terribly sick,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain – shooting, stabbing, constricting pain – was getting worse. On some level, I knew what was happening: My brain was damaged.”
He was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding in the space around the brain,” the Emmy nominee said. “I had an aneurysm, a ruptured artery.”
Emilia underwent immediate surgery to seal the aneurysm, describing the pain as “unbearable”. While she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and was “talking nonsense.”
A week later, “the aphasia was gone,” Emilia said, and she left the hospital a month after being admitted.
In a 2013 brain scan, she learned that her growths had “doubled in size” and required surgery again.
“When they woke me up I was screaming in pain,” she wrote. “The procedure was a failure. I was bleeding heavily and the doctors made it clear that my chances of survival were uncertain if they did not operate again. This time they needed to get to my brain the old-fashioned way – through my skull.”
Thankfully, Emilia shared, she is now “100 percent OK.”
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