A 25-year-old Australian woman named Brie Duval is having to recall the moment she woke up from a coma to learn how her boyfriend moved in with another woman and blocked her on all social media platforms.
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Australian Woman Recalls Her Perfect Life Before Coma
Speaking with British media, Duval says before her horrific coma-inducing accident, she was living her best life. She had moved from her home country of Australia to Canada and was working at her dream job.
Her romantic life was also going great as she was in a happy relationship with her boyfriend of four years. But things suddenly flipped upside down and came crashing down around her after one night in August 2021.
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Australian Woman Gets Into Accident & Is Left In A Coma
Now living with her boyfriend of four years in Canada, Duval says she ended up going out with some friends on August 29. However, things tragically ended that night after Duval fell headfirst from a parking garage.
The Perth, AU native was rushed by helicopter to the University of Alberta Hospital. While there, she was placed on life support with a traumatic brain injury and multiple broken bones.
Duval says she was in a coma for four weeks and doctors told her mother that she only had a 10 percent chance of surviving from the horrific injury. Miraculously, Duval awakened from her coma and began to show signs of improvement.
Australian Woman Wakes Up From Coma To Learn Boyfriend Moved In With Another Woman & Blocked Her On Social Media
Despite the great miracle that had occurred, Duval would soon learn of another tragedy. She had discovered that her boyfriend of four years couldn’t wait four weeks for her to miraculously wake up from her coma.
After waking up, Duval would spend another five months in the hospital receiving treatment. Meanwhile, the boyfriend had moved on with another woman and ghosted her on social media.
Duval said, “I was finally given my phone and my first thought was to call him and just see if he knew what happened. He hadn’t been to see me. So I opened my phone going to message him when a message pops up from this woman that says I am now with [partner’s name]. I have moved him out. He’s now living with me and my son, please do not contact him.”
Duval adds, “I have not heard from him since I have been in hospital, he’s completely and utterly left me in the dust. So I don’t even have closure as to why this happened. “
To make things even worse, Duval wasn’t able to have her parents visit her after her accident, due to travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Duval said, “This was in the peak of COVID, so in Australia you weren’t allowed to leave or enter the country. My mum and dad went to the government and asked for special permission to say goodbye to me as things were bad at that point. They refused them, they would not give them a chance and they would not give them a reason, they just flat out said no. So my mum told doctors in Canada to keep my life support on and do not under any circumstances turn that off, which they had to medically abide by.”
Speaking on everything that happened, Duval said:
“It’s been very hard mentally, there’s definitely a bit of PTSD from everything that has happened, I’m just trying to sort through my emotions, going through the accident and then having that letdown of a relationship.
Getting back to normal life, just trying to establish what my new normal is — I couldn’t swallow when I first woke up, I’ve had to try and learn how to walk again, from my waist down to my toes, it feels like it’s gone dead. All my muscle was just completely lost as I was laying in bed.
It’s frustrating not being able to do the things I want to do, my mental clarity is nowhere near where it used to be, I’ve got brain fogginess. Having a TBI [traumatic brain injury] is kind of like having concussion symptoms that are continuing. They don’t go away.”
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