One Nottinghamshire woman has opened up about her experience of having a bleed on the brain. Now, she tries to be a listener for those who are struggling or have struggled with the same.
Patricia Burgess, 61, had four brain aneurysms back in 2003. An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall, usually where it branches.
Patricia, known to many as 'Pat', said she didn't have the "foggiest" idea what an aneurysm was before she had several - but she and her family found out the dangers pretty quickly. Card making and crafts became a hobby for Pat while she recovered - and now she has her own business in Hucknall, where she shares part of her health journey on a poster in the window which has caught some people's attention and led them to open up, too.
