“Without critical research, I wouldn’t be here today.”
Debra had spent most of her adult life working as a nurse. She knew the signs of stroke. She cared for survivors of stroke in hospitals and aged care homes. She’d seen survivors and their families navigate the devastation and uncertainty.
She never imagined that she would become one of them.
But one night everything changed. Her husband, a nurse himself, recognised that Debra was experiencing a stroke and called an Ambulance. Scans at the hospital confirmed his fears and doctors told them that Debra urgently needed to be transferred to another hospital to undergo a procedure that would save her life.
The procedure that saved Debra’s life - endovascular clot retrieval - had only recently become available. It only existed that night because of years of dedicated research.
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And that research was made possible by the generosity of people like you.
But despite the incredible progress made in stroke research over the last decade, there are still gaps in our understanding and mysteries waiting to be unravelled.
There’s still so much we don’t know about the brain. Stroke numbers continue to rise across Australia. And thousands of survivors are facing outcomes that research hasn’t yet found the answers to.
Researchers are closer than ever to the next breakthrough - but they need you behind them.