{"id":67197,"date":"2023-09-05T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/?p=67197"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:01:14","slug":"woman-caught-her-husband-cheating-while-suffering-from-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/lifestyle\/woman-caught-her-husband-cheating-while-suffering-from-brain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman caught her husband cheating while suffering from brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman has revealed how she caught her husband cheating while she was suffering from severe brain inflammation which left her unable to walk or think straight – but explained that she still wears her engagement ring as a ‘reminder’ that she survived ‘both a disease and bad marriage.’<\/p>\n
Meghan Beaudry, 36, a writer from Texas, became ‘seriously ill’ two years into her marriage – developing\u00a0aphasia brought on by the autoimmune disease Lupus, which left her ‘bedridden’ for months and ‘barely’ able to ‘remember who she was.’<\/p>\n
During her recovery – while she was in the midst of re-learning how to ‘walk, speak normally, and function in the world again’ – she made the horrifying discovery that her husband, whose name was kept hidden for privacy reasons, had been unfaithful to her throughout her terrifying health battle.<\/p>\n
Now, she has opened up about the harrowing experience during a recent essay for Insider, explaining that whilst painful, she’s thankful that it made her into the ‘strong person’ that she is ‘today.’<\/p>\n
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A woman has revealed how she caught her husband cheating while she was suffering from severe brain inflammation which left her unable to walk or think straight<\/p>\n
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Meghan Beaudry, 36, a writer from Texas , became ‘seriously ill’ two years into her marriage – developing aphasia brought on by Lupus, which left her ‘bedridden’ for months<\/p>\n
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During her recovery – while she was in the midst of re-learning how to ‘walk, speak normally, and function in the world again’ – she discovered that her husband had been unfaithful to her<\/p>\n
‘Unable to walk, think normally, and remember much of my past, I lay in bed all day trying to survive,’ she recalled of her illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Over the next seven months, I tried to show [my husband that] I was still the woman he married, even when I could barely remember who I was myself.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meghan said she once caught her husband ‘sitting beside her hospital bed’ with ‘his head bowed and his shoulders slumped in grief.’<\/p>\n
Aphasia – the same condition Bruce Willis is currently suffering from – is defined as ‘the\u00a0loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meghan said the condition ‘obliterated her ability to understand time, her short-term and long-term memory, and her ability to think like an adult.’<\/p>\n
Her road to recovery would be long – she was bedridden for seven months and it took a year and a half for her to fully get back to normal – and as her health improved, her relationship ‘fell apart.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It never occurred to me that while I’d return to being the person I’d always been, my husband would not,’ she continued.<\/p>\n
She said her husband didn’t ‘celebrate’ with her, but instead, he would ‘erupt into fits of anger’ and ‘scream at her’ while she laid on the couch ‘still too weak to run away from him.’<\/p>\n
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She opened up about the harrowing experience during a recent essay for Insider, explaining that whilst painful, she’s thankful that it made her into the ‘strong person’ she is ‘today’<\/p>\n
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Now, eight years on from the divorce,\u00a0she still wears her engagement ring as a ‘reminder’ that she survived ‘both a disease and bad marriage’<\/p>\n
She soon discovered that he had been cheating on her – and left him as soon as she ‘grew healthy enough to live on her own.’<\/p>\n
‘The first week I spent living away from him in my own place was one of the most peaceful weeks of my life,’ she remembered. ‘That’s when I knew ending my marriage had been the right decision.’<\/p>\n
Meghan explained that her ex ‘didn’t ask for his engagement ring back’ – and it’s still ‘her favorite piece of jewelry and one of her most prized possessions’ even now, eight years after they went their separate ways.<\/p>\n
‘Surviving both a disease and a bad marriage is gritty and messy. But my ring reminds me that survival can also be beautiful,’ she concluded.<\/p>\n
‘If I hadn’t survived both my illness and a dangerous marriage, I wouldn’t be the strong person I am today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘My engagement ring is a reminder of who I am as a person and what I’ve lived through.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Nine years after my recovery, I believe in clinging to joy whenever I can and treasuring those memories because none of us ever know when life might take them from us.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back in July, Meghan revealed to the outlet that her husband once told her that ‘being married’ to someone with a ‘chronic illness’ was like ‘being in a relationship with three people.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Back in July, Meghan revealed to the outlet that her husband once told her that ‘being married’ to someone with a ‘chronic illness’ was like ‘being in a relationship with three people’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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‘During my period of extreme sickness, he saw only my disease – he stopped seeing me at all,’ she said<\/p>\n
‘During my period of extreme sickness, he saw only my disease – he stopped seeing me at all,’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘After a while I stopped seeing him too. His impulsiveness, explosive temper, and selfishness had eclipsed the man I’d once fallen in love with.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
When it came to dating following her divorce, Meghan admitted that she was unsure how she should go about telling her potential new partners about her condition.<\/p>\n
While she had re-learned to walk and speak normally, she would have to live with Lupus forever – which involves an onslaught of ‘bizarre and unpredictable symptoms.’<\/p>\n
‘I didn’t want potential partners to see only my disease, but I also didn’t want them to be blindsided by it when I inevitably got sicker,’ she admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Having a serious illness seemed like a huge liability for another person to take on.’<\/p>\n
While she still hasn’t found the one, she has now ‘stopped feeling embarrassed about her disease’ and ‘no longer believes it makes her less fit to be in a relationship.’<\/p>\n
She feels ‘stronger, wiser, and more resilient’ than ever before – and confident that ‘the right man’ will come along and ‘see that part of her.’<\/p>\n
The world learned on Wednesday that Hollywood legend Bruce Willis, 67, would retire due to his diagnosis of aphasia, a potentially devastating condition that causes a person to lose communication skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Willis’ family announced that the condition would cause the Die Hard star to step away ‘from the career that has meant so much to him.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around one million Americans suffer from the condition, the National Institutes of Health reports, and around 180,000 people are diagnosed with it every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It can manifest itself in multiple ways, and is often either the result of a head injury, a stroke, a tumor or other brain deterioration.<\/p>\n
Aphasia can be devastating as well, with experts saying it causes depression in over a third of cases, can lead to personality shifts and can even alienate friends and family from the affected person.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other famous examples of aphasia include former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Imagine being dropped in a country where you do not speak the language – cannot understand, read, write or speak. It would impact all of your interactions – this is what it is like to have aphasia,’\u00a0\u00a0Darlene Williamson, president of the aphasia association, told DailyMail.com.<\/p>\n
While it is impossible to say for Willis in particular how drastically the condition has effected him and his behavior, Williamson reports that it can often be devastating for patients.<\/p>\n
‘The consequences of living with a language impairment can alter someone’s behavior and outlook on life,’ Williamson said.<\/p>\n
‘Approximately 35 percent of individuals with aphasia experience some depression.’<\/p>\n
The cause of the condition, which is often some sort of traumatic brain injury or a stroke, can lead to massive personality shifts.<\/p>\n
‘[Aphasia is] difficulty with language that comes about from some kind of injury to the brain. The most common source is stroke\u2026 but it could come from any other type of damage,\u2019 Dr Brenda Rapp, a cognitive scientist at Johns Hopkins University, told DailyMail.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Certain infections that impact the brain’s language centers can cause aphasia to form as well, along with cognitive decline and deterioration associated with dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The condition can make it very hard for an actor like Willis to continue in his career, as just the process of speaking out lines can become a challenge.<\/p>\n
‘It would surely be difficult,’ Williamson said about attempting to continue acting while afflicted with the condition.<\/p>\n
‘Aphasia affects comprehension of language, speaking, as well as reading and writing. There are varying levels of severity which would be another determining factor. It may not be impossible, but acting would require extra accommodations.’<\/p>\n
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Dr Rapp said that despite communication failures caused by the condition, people who suffer the condition still have the same thoughts, and are internally the same person. While the experience can be alienating, loved ones should remember that the person has not changed. Pictured: Willis with family and friends after a ‘roast’ event in 2018<\/p>\n
There are four common types of aphasia that make up a vast majority of cases: fluent – often called\u00a0Wernicke’s; non-fluent – known as Broca’s; anomic; and Primary Progressive Aphasia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rapp explained that there are different forms of the condition because each represents a different type of breakdown in the process of communication.<\/p>\n
Whether it is the ability to translate thoughts into proper words, the ability to physically say words,\u00a0 or the ability to interpret and understand speech from others, each part of communication is a complex process, and even slight brain damage can cause issue.<\/p>\n
While the condition does cause communication failures, Rapp notes that the person themselves is still the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their thoughts, beliefs and feeling towards their loved ones remain, even if it can be frustrating and alienating for both the aphasia patient and those around them to deal with this condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Willis’ family did not reveal what type he was facing, or how severe of a case he had, or what was the root cause found for the condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Stroke Association, a UK based group, those who suffer Wernicke’s aphasia have the ability to string together long sentences of words, but will often say things in a way that they do not make sense, or even use made up words.<\/p>\n
They will also suffer from impaired reading and writing ability, and may have trouble understanding clear verbal communication towards them.<\/p>\n
One example used by Rapp is that a person may misunderstand the sentence ‘John kicked the dog’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Dr\u00a0Brenda Rapp, a cognitive scientist at Johns Hopkins University, explains that aphasia is often caused by a stroke, and can manifest itself in many different ways<\/p>\n
While the average person would clearly understand who kicked who in that scenario, a person dealing with this type of the condition may struggle to figure out whether John or the dog was the person that did the kicking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Broca’s aphasia will often cause a person to forget words or put together a proper string of words even when their brain can fully understand what they want to say.<\/p>\n
A person suffering from this type of the condition will often use simple, short, sentences to get across speech as they are unable to properly say what they want to at times.<\/p>\n
The Stroke Association says that these sentences will often be of around four words or less.<\/p>\n
A person suffering from Broca’s aphasia will also struggle with writing, but their reading ability is left unaffected.<\/p>\n
Someone suffering from anomic aphasia may suffer to find specific verbs and nouns that they need to get their point across, and will speak very vaguely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This may also translate into their writing, where they will just not be able to generate the correct words necessary to say what they would like to say.<\/p>\n
Primary Progressive Aphasia\u00a0aphasia damages a person’s ability to communicate in virtually every single way.<\/p>\n
A person suffering from this version of the condition will have trouble speaking, reading and writing.<\/p>\n
Their ability to process and understand someone that is speaking to them is damaged as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Doctors can often detect aphasia via either an MRI or CT scan, and will be able to pinpoint the exact part of the brain that is causing the issue.<\/p>\n
There is no way to fix or cure the condition entirely, but patients will often undergo speech therapy to help rebuild their language skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018There\u2019s not a lot of progress [with medication for the condition]\u2026 the treatment for aphasia is speech therapy,’ Rapp said.<\/p>\n
She noted that in some cases a person may undergo electric stimulation therapy alongside speech therapy in order to ‘get the most’ out of the experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Williamson said that ‘strong family support is a critical piece of living successfully with aphasia.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is not always permanent, though, and how long it lasts and how severe it is often depends on how bad the damage to the brain is.<\/p>\n
Stroke victims in particular that suffer aphasia can regain their speech, and often within only a few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n