ABI is shared

ABI is suffered by both the patient and the closest family member. This is the point of view I want to share. My name is Blanca and I’m Juan’s wife. Juan directly suffers from ABI since March 2020. Since then, I also suffer indirectly from it.

I am a doctor but I didn’t know what ABI would bring to our lives. I remember I asked the neurosurgeon about the possible sequels of my husband’s brain surgery. He told me everything should return to normality again someday. But how and when? I was never warned about those surgery sequels. I was maybe very ignorant about that. The only thing I knew was that the brain tumor had to be removed. I thought that, in a few months, my husband would be just the same as before.

The reality is that, since then, we’re doing neuro-rehabilitation for more than a year. Although the path isn’t easy, with work and persistence, I’ve realized that we can achieve a lot of things, but we still don’t see the end of this story.

So from this moment I’ll write here about my experience as a caregiver who fights for the recovery of her husband.