Disabled Man Speculates On Cause Of Aneurysm
by Ernest Severino
I sat down in a chair, blacked out then crawled to a recliner. My wife then came home from work and asked me what was wrong. I told her to call 911. The rescue came and said I needed to go to the hospital. When I got there they did a CT scan and found a ruptured aneurysm. Then they Life Flighted me to Dartmouth Hitchcock medical center. I then had surgery to fix the aneurysm. I guess I went into respiratory failure a number of times but I made it. I suffered a stroke, which affected the right side of my body. They also discovered another aneurysm on the left side of my head. I held off until January of 2008 to have that repaired. That operation went well and I suffered no ill effects. Now I can walk with a cane but have no use of my right arm or hand. I'm not sure what caused it in the first place. I have no family history of them. I do remember two things in my life that may have helped. One month before it ruptured I was a school custodian going to put up the flags and slipped on black ice, went up in the air about four feet and landed flat on my right side, which injured my whole right side. The other case involves working as a firefighter in our town. It had to do with inhaling smoke from a large fire. The only thing that makes me remember this is I had brown spots on my helmet after the fire that never came off. In December 2008, another firefighter who I was working on this fire with suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm too. But no one knows what really causes them.
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