Hello everyone I am Savannah Laird and I’m from Erie PA. In 2015 I was suffering with anxiety- I then was put on an antidepressant for the anxiety and it gave me suicidal thoughts . One late evening in April of 2015 I was alone , my family was in Florida for Easter. I unlocked my father’s safe and took his gun . I had never even shot a gun before . I YouTubed how to use it and then it went off to the floor , then I turned it to myself - it was weird though as I was losing blood I got more and more tired. I then went outside for some odd reason and collapsed- that’s when I was found .
Unfortunately that night yes by the Grace of God I lived - but little did I know what life would be like after. I was rushed to the nearest trauma center and had suffered 3 different kind of brain bleeds and pooling .After a few months - of pain , hospital stays, ears leaking fluid , nights of no sleep up crying all night from pain. After a few short months , I was walking , talking , alive ! Then I started getting headaches but hey everyone does right? Well in 2018 I got married to my husband , shortly after getting married we welcomed our beautiful little girl into the world- which was hard on me at just 23 weeks I was put on bed rest for preeclampsia , at 35.5 weeks I went into an emergency c section due to HELLP , now let’s think none of this could be good for my TBI in 2015, but at this point “ I only had headaches” . Well fast forward to 2021 , I started changing, I couldn’t find my car coming out of a store, my bowels completely stopped working , I became weak , my muscles became weaker , and so many other things started coming on.
After completing many mris , testing . It was in fast my TBI from 2015 changing and doing more damage than before ! Never did I think or even imagine the life I would have to live now because of the decision I made one evening in 2015 has forever changed me , my life , and my loved ones . The tears I’ve cried , but still holding onto hope and doing the therapy’s. Brain injuries are so incredibly painful and invisible they take a toll not just on the person but the people around as well . Not a lot of people even understand- there are days I don’t even understand .
