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The "Game of Thrones" star, Emilia Clarke, has published in the New Yorker a personal essay entitled "A battle for my life", which reveals her experience and the survival of two cerebral aneurysms.
As Clarke explains, the first of these aneurysms was discovered while she was training with a personal trainer after the first shooting season of "Game of Thrones" in 2011. collapsed in the gym bathroom after vomiting due to "subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain . "
Clarkes says hospital staff told him that about one-third of HSM patients died "immediately or soon after".
Clarke's recovery after the first ("minimally invasive") brain surgery was difficult. She says that she was detained at the intensive care unit (ICU) for a week due to a condition called aphasia – Clarke was unable to say her own name or speak other than by words "nonsense".
The aphasia is gone, and after a full month at the hospital, Clarke was sent off to work to film the second season of "Game of Thrones".
But the doctors had warned him of a second smaller aneurysm on a different point of his brain.
"On the set, I missed no beat, but I struggled," Clarke writes. "Season two would be my worst.I did not know what Daenerys was doing.If I'm really honest, every minute of every day, I thought I was going to die."
In 2013, after the end of the third season of "Game of Thrones", Clarke submitted to her usual brain scan and was informed that the aneurysm had to be operated.
This time, the operation did not unfold as well. The first procedure failed and the doctors had to open his skull. The second aneurysm was corrected, but Clarke spent another month in the hospital and described a painful recovery involving a deep sense of hopelessness, anxiety and panic.
Clarke kept her press surgeries and, although the "Game of Thrones" presenters know it, she did not want it to affect her work and advertising tours around the seasons. She attended the San Diego Comic-Con "a few weeks after this second surgery."
"But now, after being silent for all these years, I tell you the truth in its entirety," Clarke writes. "If you like it, believe me: I know that I am not unique, nor alone.An untold number of people have suffered far less and nothing more than the care that I have had the luck receive."
Along with the publication of his New York essay, Clarke announced the creation of a new charity, Same You.
"The badociation I've been working on for a few years is now live!" Clarke wrote on Instagram. "[Same You] bursting with love, brain power and the help of amazing people with amazing stories. [The New Yorker] published my story, now i would love to hear yours! "
Idem You will aim to stimulate "primary research with the UK Stroke Association to understand the recovery needs" of people with brain injuries and strokes, especially young people. Clarke was 24 when her first attack hospitalized her.
You also aim to fund clinical research and train a new training qualification in neurorehabilitation.
"I ask that priority be given to increasing funding for neurorehabilitation," says Clarke's blog at Same You. "After leaving the hospital, everyone should benefit from the multidisciplinary rehabilitation and recovery they desperately need."
Read here the full essay of Emilia Clarke in the New Yorker, and find out more about Same You and how you can donate here.
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