"A Battle for My Life" Emilia Clarke from GOT shares her battle with 2 brain aneurysms.
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Wow.
On edit: I know she's lucky she had adequate health care. Hell, SHE acknowledges that she was lucky she had adequate health care. That's not really the point of this article. Geez.
A Battle for My Life
Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.
It was the beginning of 2011. I had just finished filming the first season of “Game of Thrones,” a new HBO series based on George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. With almost no professional experience behind me, I’d been given the role of Daenerys Targaryen, also known as Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Lady of Dragonstone, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons. As a young princess, Daenerys is sold in marriage to a musclebound Dothraki warlord named Khal Drogo. It’s a long story—eight seasons long—but suffice to say that she grows in stature and in strength. She becomes a figure of power and self-possession. Before long, young girls would dress in platinum wigs and flowing robes to be Daenerys Targaryen for Halloween.
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To relieve the stress, I worked out with a trainer. I was a television actor now, after all, and that is what television actors do. We work out. On the morning of February 11, 2011, I was getting dressed in the locker room of a gym in Crouch End, North London, when I started to feel a bad headache coming on. I was so fatigued that I could barely put on my sneakers. When I started my workout, I had to force myself through the first few exercises.
Then my trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t. I told my trainer I had to take a break. Somehow, almost crawling, I made it to the locker room. I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones
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Medicare for all 
she used "Mum" for "Mom", to me that was a dead giveaway 
I had one back in June. I remember having what I though was a sinus headache. The next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital and the nurse telling me "You just had brain surgery."
The costs for this episode came out to six figures. Thank God I had insurance. Costed me about $5000.
Jan 21 and Aug 14
Total outlay of cash from us was under $300..thankfully our insurance was golden 
I only spent 32 hours the first time and 35 the 2nd..
MRIs are incredible experiences 
My poor husband had an ischemic stroke on Oct 23 but later that day he had a massive hemorrhagic stroke and died 3 days later 
He was in ICU the whole time and the total cost was $215.00...medicare & Kaiser advantage
been my thought for a long long time, even more so when I was diagnosed. .
