She Was Given a One Percent Chance of Survival
A friend of her was able to convince the doctors to perform an angiogram (a medical imaging technique) on Stone, and once they did, they found that her right vertebral artery, one of the two connecting your head to your back and spine, was torn to shreds, “and I was bleeding into my face, my brain, my head, and my spine.”
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Yeah, it’s incredible she even survived. Especially since the doctors gave her a one percent chance of survival. She was beyond lucky, but that doesn’t mean her recovery was easy. “Piece by piece, I lost everything,” she wrote in her memoir. Her left leg dragged when she walked; the left side of her face was distorted. She talked without knowing she was actually stuttering.