Hello Everyone. My name is Alisha and I am from Europe.
I had just started at The University of Manchester at the beginning of September in 2024. Just a few weeks later, I was working my first shift at a bar and I got hit by a car that mounted the pavement! I was left from that moment critically injured fighting for my life with a broken neck, facial fractures, a wrist injury, 2 broken ribs, multiple bleeds on my brain, facial fractures and a Traumatic Brain Injury.
The paramedics did not think that I was going to even make it to the hospital but the air ambulance came on foot and gave me some strong medication which ensured I survived the journey. I went in for emergency brain surgery to save my life early that morning I had to fight and fight and fight the car shattered a part of my skull leaving some of it embedded in my brain so that was removed and I’m now awaiting a 3rd brain surgery of cranioplasty.
I was then placed in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks where I was on life support fighting for my life. I then needed a drain fitted to get rid of pressure and fluid that was on my brain. I didn’t move for days after being woken so my family were prepared for me being paralysed from the neck downwards. Over the next few days, I gradually started to move my right arm and leg. My family advised by the doctors that the lack of movement on her left side is likely due to the location and severity of my brain injury and again could be permanent, so started to prepare for this outcome. Over the subsequent days and weeks my I defied the odds again and, started to move her left limbs and she gradually regained full controlled movement of all her limbs. And one day I just got out of bed and started walking. I then started to talk and I now am physically fully recovered.
I have a tbi in my right frontal lobe so I’m re learning those skills in other parts of my brain as my right frontal lobe is permanently damaged. I was discharged from hospital right before Christmas and am now having intense home based therapy and I am awaiting a cranioplasty. Because of my hard work and determination and how hard I fought I am moving back out and going back to my University in September and starting things that I enjoy again like: cheerleading.
Thank you TBI One Love!
To learn more about my journey from my Father: https://www.justgiving.com/page/david-webb-1736091912054?utm_term=n9WZqdj29&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZR9dx-u32FOgJMmgJNKnsAacHD60KFxh3FSB1Cg_LSmxAe-YLsO0u9kOo_aem_gLZ8O3HtsQIFKTpMgj9uzQ
