Matthew Aberant was your typical 45-year-old competitive runner last September when the unthinkable happened.
What he described as a feeling of immense pressure in his head followed by a headache led to his wife Laura rushing him to the St. Luke’s Anderson Campus Emergency Room. While en route, he became nauseous and started vomiting.
He was diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage stroke, a medical emergency identified by bleeding into a space between the brain and the tissue that covers it. Matthew’s headache is what is known as a thunderclap headache, one that comes on suddenly and is so intense it is often described as the worst headache of a patient’s life…