No one saw her fall and as she laid motionless and unconscious on the floor she was found by Chris, Jason’s daughter, who with the rest of the restaurant crew responded quickly and efficiently calling 911 and finding me through Dennis in the AO. But once there she collapsed unseen at her dishwashing station. Second burst, second miracle: on 10th March she was seen walking slowly to work at the Jyun Kang restaurant. In three months we need to return to the hospital for this clot to be dissolved as having a blood clot in your brain is not something that is encouraged. A “Thunder Clap” headache coming on suddenly is an indication of a burst aneurysm. We believe this is the reason the aneurysm clotted and she survived the stroke. When Amanda suffered the “Thunder Clap” headache causing a very serious headache she began reciting the Da Bei Zhou and the pain would lessen and eventually ceased after several days.
This is very abnormal as burst aneurysms typically bleed profusely draining into the skull causing severe brain damage and ultimate death if not corrected. The miraculous reason she did not suffer more severely from the burst aneurysm is that the aneurysm clotted stopping the blood flow. This is something that she will probably have for two months or more. This old, dirty blood is very irritating to the veins. The reason for the pain is that this blood is old blood – after circulating through the head it did not get back to the heart and the system to be oxygenated and purified. However, she did experience severe back pains, which was caused by the blood draining from her brain down her spine.
The doctors, nurses and staff at UCSF MC were completely astounded that she did not suffer any irreparable damage from that first attack as she received no real medical assistance, yet seemingly recovered in two and one-half weeks – as one would do with viral meningitis. This was originally thought to be a viral meningitis attack but was confirmed to me by the Head of Neurology at University of California San Francisco Medical Center that that was the first burst of two aneurysms – she had had a binomial event, two aneurysms looking something like a peanut.