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Filipina Wakes Up From Nine-Month Coma, Ready to Go Home
Gulf News ^ | February 6, 2017

Posted on 02/07/2017 3:01:45 PM PST by nickcarraway

Mother of two has been receiving treatment at Rashid Hospital after slipping into coma in April 2015

A Filipina who has been undergoing treatment and physiotherapy at Rashid Hospital after waking up from a nine-month coma is now well on her way to recovery and is ready to go back to the Philippines to see her children.

Perlite Almonte, 35, was first admitted to the hospital on April 18, 2015 after she was found unconscious in the bathroom of her house. Doctors who examined Almonte said she had slipped into a coma.

Dr Zeyad Al Rais, Head of Critical Care Department at Rashid Hospital, said Almonte fell into a coma because of intracerebral haemorrhage, a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding within the brain tissue.

“Perlite suffered from an intracerebral haemorrhage due to aneurysmal bleeding,” Dr Al Rais said.

An aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge or weakening of the arterial wall, Dr Al Rais explained. As the bulge grows, the arterial wall becomes thinner and weaker. It can become so thin that the blood pressure within can cause it to burst or leak


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brain; coma

1 posted on 02/07/2017 3:01:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What a great story!


2 posted on 02/07/2017 3:03:13 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Constitution Day

It’s serious.


3 posted on 02/07/2017 3:03:18 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway

She heard Justin Bieber on the radio and got up and turned it off?

Congratulations.


4 posted on 02/07/2017 3:05:50 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: nickcarraway; Mark17

Overseas Foreign Worker (OFW) was she?


5 posted on 02/07/2017 3:08:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wow! That’s a heck of a story. Time to enjoy some food!


6 posted on 02/07/2017 3:52:03 PM PST by catbertz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Overseas Foreign Worker (OFW) was she?

Good possibility.

7 posted on 02/07/2017 5:51:13 PM PST by Mark17 (20 Years USAF ATCer, Retired. 25 years CDCR C/O, Retired)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

It took me a second. Now I’ve got that morose song in my head...thanks Slim!


8 posted on 02/08/2017 6:37:29 AM PST by Constitution Day (Never begin a vast project with half-vast ideas.)
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To: Constitution Day

Anytime Brother!


9 posted on 02/08/2017 6:39:02 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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