Room 23 is the true story of Kavita Basi. An English lady in the prime of life, healthy with friends, family and career who one day had a headache which rapidly turned into an emergency trip to hospital. Aquired brain injury happens for a bunch of reasons, from physical trauma to CSF leak but in this case it was a subarachnoid hemorrhage, an uncommon type of stroke caused by a burst blood vessel in the brain (a ruptured brain aneurysm). There’s no warning for any of this and she covers how it feels so unfair. She spent several weeks in hospital and even out of hospital had a long and slow recovery. The books follows her successes and sticking points. She covers how such sudden and severe illness affects those around her but also the support she got. A common feature of aquired head injury is changes in personality and this is noteable in how it changed her approach to work and colleages. A true story of love and loss, happyness and sadness, frustration and overcoming challenges.
