Sometimes I have to Pinch Myself: in praise of medical innovations by Julia Jones
Georgeanna at the Grand Canyon: Sept 7th 2017 A year ago today (Sept 9th) I posted An Apology for Absence . September 8 th had been a crisis day: bewildering, a nightmare, the terror muffled only by my slowness to catch on – every time that I realised the full extent of the danger to my daughter’s life was the moment when that particular immediacy had passed and we were into the next phase of risk. “ An estimated 10-15% of patients die before reaching the hospital. Moreover, mortality rate reaches as high as 40% within the first week, and about 50% die in the first 6 months”. Or, as Wikipedia puts it “The death rate for SAH is between 40 and 50 percent but trends for survival are improving. Of those that survive hospitalization, more than a quarter have significant restrictions in their lifestyle, and less than a fifth have no residual symptoms whatsoever.” I hope you will have realised by the photo heading this post that Georgeanna has made ...