After waking from a week-long coma caused by a cardiac arrest that left her with a hypoxic brain injury, Mel Hartman was so disoriented she thought she 'was still a rowdy teenager' — and while she has undergone intensive rehabilitation, she says social supports are lacking.
Mel Hartman was diagnosed with a hypoxic brain injury after she experienced a sudden cardiac arrest at home.
"In my head everything was okay but then to get the words out — I couldn't process it correctly," she said."My mum said I'd gone back 10 years. I didn't know that I had kids and I thought I was still a rowdy teenager." "I'll have trouble processing stuff at a check-out and then … I'm holding up someone's time," she said.
"They might appear the same as they did prior to their diagnosis, they might look the same, be capable of talking, walking and nothing seems wrong," Ms Preston said.
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