Hi my name is Tracie and in July 2006 whilst at work I had a stroke caused by an AVM in the brain, I was aged 41 at the time. I received sterio tactic radio surgery in February 2007 and in April 2009 was told that the surgery had worked and the AVM had gone! I've been left with what I consider minor side effects, ie loss of periferal vision to the right hand side, extreme fatigue at times, short term memory loss and epilepsy, to name a few things. But considering what could have been I consider myself very lucky to still be here. Anyone contemplating whether to have the sterio tactic radio surgery I would say go for it, in my case I had no other option and with a family to think of there was no way I was going to not accept any treatment offered. I now lead what I consider to be a normal life, bad days now and then but I now realise how precious and short life can be. There is definately life after a stroke.
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