True Life Inspirational Story

A very interesting true life story ..

my name is Ashley Dale. My story began when I was 14 months old. I was born with a cavernous malformation. One day my mom had noticed I was dragging my right leg,couldn't use my right arm properly and I was having a hard time keeping food down. My mom had decided it was best to take me in to see a doctor. So I went and had an MRI. We got the results and I had a brain hemorrhage . I had a 12 hr surgery. My chances of surviving we're less than 25 percent.


I had made a full recovery and continued with MRIs on a continuous basis and grew up a healthy,active and happy girl who played sports and hip hop danced.when I was 12 years old..I was doing my first photo shoot ever as I was interested in modelling. I remember I was having a hard time holding myself up,getting very clumsy with my whole right side. I also had a fall at school one day Something just wasn't right. So my mom took me in to see the doctor and to get an MRI. I had hemorrhaged again. It was a 12 hour surgery. I remember all my family and friends were so worried and crying as I was going in to the OT;so was I. But I knew in my heart that it would be ok in the end. 



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The doctors had told my family that they were expecting me to be in a coma for up to 4 months. I actually woke up on the operating table as they were bandaging my head up. Everyone in the OR was clapping and cheering and I knew exactly where I was!
After my surgery I was in the University Hospital for about 3 weeks before I got transferred to the Glen Rose Rehabilitation Hospital. I had to re learn how to walk and talk. I was in Occupational Therapy, Physio Therapy and Speech Therapy. I had to re train my whole right side of my body,and re train my mouth to basically work again. The simplest things would be so hard for me,like picking up a pencil or just sliding a cloth across the table.There were days when I just wanted to give up completely. But I got through each day knowing my friends and family were always there for me.

My rehabilitation continued for about 8 months and I was almost ready to go back to school full time until we had realized I wasn't feeling myself yet again. I went in for another MRI and the results had shown another hemorrhage. This time I was sent to Calgary because they had an MRI machine.

My friends,family and even my doctors, Dr. Aronyk and Wendy Beaudoin from Edmonton came. That made me feel so much more at ease with the 14 hour surgery I was about to have. They told me and my family that because the surgery had to be so aggressive to cure me that The chances of not walking again were very high. At that moment my heart just sank. All the memories I had of me running and playing sports just flashed in my head. I then realized that my life would never be the same. What I once knew could be gone forever.




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With having more challenges than I ever thought possible each day was a struggle beyond my wildest imagination. My doctors my family and my friends were by my side every moment. Together we got through each day . I fought as hard as I could . With strength hope courage love and faith I've made it through . To this day I still work on my walking ,and I love to do volunteer work and fundraising for sick children in anyway I can.

I am so blessed to have the life I do. Is my life a struggle? Yes. But that doesn't stop me from doing the things I love. I can do basically everything just in a different way!

Never give up! Believe in yourself! And always smile!