Man uses wedding photos to help wife remember her life following rare brain hemorrhage
A New York woman who suffered a rare brain hemorrhage woke up in the hospital and could not remember anything or anyone - not even her husband of one month, according to reports.
Tunicia Hall, 34, of Jamaica and her husband, Raleigh, got married on June 28.
Just weeks later, on July 30, Tunicia went to North Shore University Hospital after complaining of a bad headache.
"My head started hurting tremendously," she recalled. "I don't even have the words to describe it."
The trauma wiped out nearly all of her recent memory, including her wedding day.
"They said she had a 50/50 chance," husband Raleigh Hall told reporters Tuesday. "They looked at the CAT scan and their faces worried me, so then I said I gotta do something."
So he covered the walls of his wife's room with hundreds of photos of their wedding day.
"The whole point of putting up the pictures was to connect her with those that love her," he told ABC News today.
Soon enough, his wife began to remember their June wedding in Long Island.
"The pictures helped," Tunicia Hall said. "I would look at the pictures and it would bring back memories."
"It's not just medical science that's bringing patients back," said Dr. Richard Temes, North Shore University Hospital neurocritical care director. "Patients' families are so important and key in terms of neurological recovery."
Tunicia Hall is recovering at home and undergoing physical therapy. She suffered spasms in her legs and has trouble with coordination after the hemorrhaging. She thinks her memory is fully recovered.
