They decided to perform brain surgery without my consent! Sharon Stone stated that American doctors had made a mistake
The American actress revealed the terrible details of her stroke. Sharon Stone admitted that the tragedy could have been avoided if doctors had listened more carefully to her complaints.
The star of the film “Basic Instinct” faced a serious illness in 2001. It later turned out that the cause was a rupture of the vertebral artery, which led to a 9-day cerebral hemorrhage.
Sharon went to the Los Angeles emergency room with an unbearable headache, but doctors were still uncertain about the diagnosis. They scheduled the actress for a trial brain surgery.
“I remember waking up on a gurney and asking the guy who was pushing it where I was going. And he answered: “Brain surgery.”
The doctor decided, without my knowledge or consent, that he should perform an exploratory brain surgery on me, and sent me to the operating room,” Stone said.
According to the 65-year-old artist, she categorically did not want her skull to be opened. As a result, a friend of the Hollywood star persuaded doctors to conduct an additional computed tomography scan of the blood vessels. That’s when doctors noticed signs of a brain hemorrhage, Sharon said.
“They missed it on the first angiogram and thought I was faking it. My best friend talked them into giving me another one and they found out that
I had a brain hemorrhage throughout the subarachnoid space. And that my vertebral artery was severed. I would have died if they had sent me home,” the actress explained.
The Golden Globe Award winner had a difficult recovery after surgery on a damaged artery. “The right side of my face fell, my left leg was dragging a lot, and I stuttered very badly.
For the first two years, I also had these weird knuckle-like knots growing all over the top of my head, and it felt like I was being beaten,” Vogue quoted Sharon as saying.
