Brain Box

When Mary arrived in hospital she had many injuries, her body sustained a huge degree of trauma. Its no exaggeration to say that if she had not had such incredible on scene care from the HEMS team and gone to a hospital with the best trauma specialists in the Europe, she would almost certainly not have got this far.

Due to the extent of injury and the pressure the body is under, people surviving such severe injuries, often develop secondary injuries a few days later. For a few different reasons, in Mary’s case, part of her secondary injuries included brain swelling.

A week after Mary’s accident, this swelling got so serious that to save her life, doctors had to remove a part of her skull, to give the brain room to expand in the ‘box’ that is her beautiful head. It is still not clear what the implications of this swelling will be for Mary. It does mean that Mary’s recovery will take a long time. Tragically, Mary’s reputation as having the biggest most powerful brain we know of won’t make the difference this time, but her ability to fight and keep going under unbelievable circumstances and pressure certainly will.

Incase you are wondering... Mary is still without part of her skull. This is safe, for now, except that tennis, cricket and rounders are banned for a bit. Mary does get her piece of skull back, later on down the line. It is currently in Scotland, being preserved in whiskey*. If the whiskey thing fails, they will make her a nice ceramic/ titanium replacement in Germany. She is already doing well at fulfilling her fantasy as the bionic woman.

*may be a medical procedure without the use of whiskey