Miraculous Brain Stroke Recovery

Miraculous Brain Stroke Recovery


Miraculous Brain Stroke Recovery

Meet Brisa and her family, who join The Doctors after Brisa suffered a pons stroke and they were all told Brisa would never be the same again.

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Content

0 -> they said she would never walk or talk
2.25 -> again but and what can only be described
4.89 -> as a medical miracle Rhys in defied all
7.529 -> those odds and she joins us here today
10.67 -> Brisa come on out
29.96 -> Wow you are truly a miracle and such a
34.469 -> far cry thank you from watching that
37.86 -> video of you unable to move laying there
40.98 -> in bed how did you get from there that
43.44 -> what we're seeing there with all the -
45.39 -> how did you get from there to here I had
47.94 -> faith my family had faith in me my
55.579 -> family never gave up they always knew I
59.37 -> was gonna be okay and I couldn't
61.699 -> disappoint them I knew I had to be okay
64.259 -> because they knew I had to be okay so I
66.99 -> worked hard at it and I never never gave
69.869 -> up no two strokes are alike right and in
78.63 -> some cases someone can have a stroke and
80.07 -> not be aware of what's going on but in
81.93 -> this case an upon stroke that is the
84 -> brainstem and it's like a way station so
87.24 -> you can have a thought oh I want to move
89.64 -> my arm but the signals do not travel
92.82 -> through appropriately so the entire time
94.92 -> you were awake and aware of everything
97.83 -> but could not physically do anything
100.32 -> right so basically I was a it's
102.72 -> basically called locked-in syndrome I
104.7 -> was locked in my own body and I wasn't
107.4 -> able to communicate anything come in or
110.88 -> out well things were coming in but I
112.68 -> couldn't express that it was coming in
115.049 -> so it was basically like living a
118.95 -> nightmare but my mom would play at night
122.18 -> when I was still locked in my mom would
126.15 -> play the secret on loop and I would
130.019 -> listen to that and she didn't know
131.7 -> whether or not I was actually listening
134.069 -> to it but I was and I realized so much
138.78 -> through listening to that that I had the
141.84 -> power and I have I still have my arms
145.5 -> and legs I just have to connect the dots
147.12 -> and make them move again and that's what
150.51 -> I really focused on 12
153.68 -> [Applause]
159.39 -> [Applause]
162.35 -> my daughter
164.03 -> initially told me if you never regained
167.16 -> movement on your left side it's okay
169.35 -> you'll learn how to deal with it and
170.82 -> we'll work around it
171.81 -> and I thought no I am gonna move again I
175.17 -> promise I want it I never was a runner
183.39 -> before but I need I needed to prove a
185.22 -> point that I was gonna run a half
188.07 -> marathon how did three tickets to see a
197.79 -> JLo concert sound you and your family up
205.92 -> to see her perform alive at the axis in
209.01 -> Vegas also the Red Rock Resort in Las
212.55 -> Vegas is offering you all a two night
215.1 -> stay in their two-bedroom suite I have
224.94 -> to say I couldn't have done this without
226.5 -> my family all my cousins my aunt my mom
229.83 -> dad everybody especially my mom
232.87 -> [Applause]
238.989 -> say you were backstage but while your
241.609 -> piece was playing the the look of love
243.709 -> on all of your faces towards briefs is
246.29 -> pretty cool it's pretty cool to see and
248.329 -> modern medicine do a lot of things but
251.049 -> modern medicine never matches up to the
253.489 -> healing powers of a family so I'm so
256.339 -> [Applause]
266.35 -> you

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMI0go4pzOo