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Sharon Stone Says Doctors Thought She Was 'Faking' Her Brain Hemorrhage

Actress Sharon Stone has revealed that back in 2001 when she was suffering from brain hemorrhage, the doctors thought she was faking the whole incident. During her 2001 incident, the actress was diagnosed with 1 per cent chance of survival, which led her to quit Hollywood.

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Actress Sharon Stone has revealed that back in 2001 when she was suffering from brain hemorrhage, the doctors thought she was faking the whole incident. During her 2001 incident, the actress was diagnosed with 1 per cent chance of survival, which led her to quit Hollywood.

The 바카라˜Basic Instinct바카라™ star, 65, recalled the incident during an interview with Vogue where she remembered being rushed to the hospital after feeling a 바카라œlightning bolt-like바카라 pain in her head as per People.

바카라œI remember waking up on a gurney and asking the kid wheeling it where I was going, and him saying, 바카라˜brain surgery,바카라™바카라 shared Stone. 바카라œA doctor had decided, without my knowledge or consent, that he should give me exploratory brain surgery and sent me off to the operating room.바카라

Continuing, the 바카라˜Total Recall바카라™ actress said: 바카라œWhat I learned through that experience is that in a medical setting, women often just aren바카라™t heard, particularly when you don바카라™t have a female doctor.바카라

She said that as a result of the medical staff taking the situation very lightly, they first missed her brain hemorrhage. "They missed it with the first angiogram and decided that I was faking it.바카라

Nonetheless, Stone's best friend was by her side and advocated for her. 바카라œMy best friend talked them into giving me a second one and they discovered that I had been hemorrhaging into my brain, my whole subarachnoid pool, and that my vertebral artery was ruptured," Stone said. 바카라œI would have died if they had sent me home."

After her hospital stay, she struggled to walk and lost a significant amount of weight. 바카라œI bled so much into my subarachnoid pool (head, neck, and spine) that the right side of my face fell, my left foot was dragging severely, and I was stuttering very badly.바카라

It was only two decades later that Stone opened up on her health condition. Describing why she did not want her condition to be publicised, she said: 바카라œI hid my disability. I was afraid to go out and didn바카라™t want people to know. I just thought no one would accept me.바카라

Stone told People that she's "become more comfortable with publicly saying what's really happened to me, adding, 바카라œFor a long time I wanted to pretend that I was just fine.바카라

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