Brisa was a vibrant 32 year old living a fast-paced New York City life until one day her face swelled up and she suffered a Pons stroke. With her family by her side, she made an unthinkable recovery.
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0 -> Rhys is a vibrant 32 year old to enjoy
2.899 -> kickboxing in the fast-paced life of a
5.79 -> New York City hairstylist until one day
8.49 -> the unthinkable happened
11.15 -> daughter precip was very very outgoing
13.549 -> always making us laugh when she walked
16.47 -> into a room it was reach the show very
19.38 -> very happy and really loved life Brisa
25.59 -> had called me she wasn't feeling right
27.689 -> she said mom my face is swollen I don't
30.3 -> know what's going on with it I'm gonna
31.92 -> take a taxi to the nearby hospital I'll
34.71 -> call you when I get there
35.73 -> she was at the hospital she was telling
37.68 -> me the doctors had just walked in I'll
39.3 -> call you as soon as I find out anything
41.34 -> that was the last time I talked to her
47.809 -> time had passed and they kept calling
50.01 -> her and she wouldn't answer and that's
55.02 -> when they knew something was wrong I
57.059 -> started getting phone calls from the
59.399 -> doctors told me that my daughter was
61.89 -> intubated and sedated and he would
63.96 -> explain everything to me when I got to
66.09 -> the hospital he went straight to the
67.56 -> airport to get the first flight out to
70.02 -> you
72.32 -> got there around two o'clock in the
74.46 -> morning
75.079 -> when I ran up to the room all I saw was
77.299 -> my baby girl she was hooked up to all
82.039 -> these machines and not aware of anything
85.369 -> around her there was no movement there
88.549 -> was no life there was no anything I saw
91.61 -> her laying in bed and with tubes all
93.92 -> over her body she didn't look good at
96.619 -> all you start thinking oh my god
99.86 -> am I gonna lose my baby
103.42 -> [Music]
116.88 -> the doctors told me I would never have
119.59 -> my daughter back the way she was
122.58 -> basically she knew what was happening
125.11 -> but she was trapped in a body that she
127.33 -> couldn't move and that was really hard
128.95 -> news to take I had to leave the room I
131.7 -> couldn't do it
133.3 -> I just refused to listen after that I
138.07 -> wasn't accepting any of it at all they
140.89 -> don't know my strength and my daughter's
142.69 -> strength I looked at my daughter I said
144.97 -> you're a fighter you can do this we're
146.92 -> gonna get out of this together
148.18 -> I knew that would not be the last time I
156.28 -> hear my daughter's voice Reese's mom
161.02 -> Linda joins us and I just wanted to ask
163.12 -> you Linda as a mother what was it like
165.16 -> seeing your daughter like that when I
168.01 -> walked in there and I saw my daughter I
169.75 -> said that's not my daughter this is a
171.13 -> dream this is nothing happening I'm
173.41 -> gonna wake up any minute I walked in she
176.41 -> was unresponsive all these tubes it's
183.22 -> hard to see her that way and it was hard
185.68 -> to accept what the doctors were telling
187.209 -> you I'm not gonna accept anything that
189.64 -> wasn't gonna do it that's my daughter
195.08 -> doctors said Brisa would likely never be
198.41 -> the same again
199.58 -> but Brisa had a different plan the
202.4 -> doctors told us that she had less than
205.1 -> 1% chance to gaining her mobility back
210.22 -> as a family we decided we're all going
212.72 -> to do this together from the very
214.16 -> beginning all of the talk around Risa
216.02 -> had to be very positive something in me
217.97 -> just told me just keep talking to her to
220.1 -> touch her forehead you can tell her and
222.56 -> I'm touching your forehead right now
223.94 -> baby grow follow my fingers follow my
226.52 -> fingers I know you're in there
228.08 -> we're here for you we love you you can
230.54 -> hear us like squeeze our hand
233.47 -> the first big sign of her recovery they
236.54 -> were holding her hand and she was
238.73 -> looking at her hand just focusing on it
241.1 -> and we were telling her come on barista
242.78 -> come on open up your hand open and she
245.9 -> couldn't move at all all of us are
247.73 -> standing around the bed just like you
251.21 -> know so nervous her eyebrows I'm just
253.73 -> staring at her hand and then all of a
255.38 -> sudden she opened her and that sent
260.12 -> everyone into tears
261.5 -> joy who lost it I said okay this is
264.98 -> working we got to do born her next
266.72 -> milestone was a thumbs up she was
268.94 -> getting stronger every day she would
270.62 -> give us a peace sign every little thing
272.78 -> that she did was just me
274.58 -> see she would work in work two months
277.669 -> later she was able to breathe on her own
