Melbourne Renegades and South Australia wicketkeeper-batter Josie Dooley has spoken on the ‘terrifying’ ordeal of how she spent 18 days in an intensive care unit after she had suffered a stroke whereas on trip in Hawaii.
She and her accomplice had travelled to the island of Kauai to surf throughout the low season in April of this 12 months earlier than the gifted cricketer started to expertise insufferable complications.
She had attributed the ache to jetlag and the after-effects of a Hen occasion she had attended within the days earlier than she left, however issues shortly turned extra severe.
‘I used to be getting these bizarre rushes of stress, actually aggressive. Then it could cease, so I wasn’t actually considering a lot of it,’ she mentioned in an interview with Channel 7.
After waking up at 3am with the ache persisting she went to the emergency room the place she was despatched dwelling with an info sheet about migraines.
However the ache persevered into the early hours of the morning with Dooley stating that it was so unhealthy that she could not see. She was re-admitted to hospital and her situation began to worsen.
Josie Dooley has opened up on her inspiring restoration after she suffered a stroke whereas vacationing in Hawaii
Dooley and her accomplice Michael Wegener had been on vacation within the tropical island when Dooley started to endure extreme complications. She would subsequently be admitted to hospital
Her accomplice, Michael Wegener was given the information that Dooley had hydrocephalus, a situation the place extra cerebrospinal fluid builds up round an individual’s mind.
‘It was principally fluid on the mind, so there was a blockage. We did not know on the time and we came upon later, so she had a benign tumour which induced an obstruction,’Â Dooley’s mum, Leanne, mentioned to Channel 7.
Dooley was set to be transferred to Honolulu however issues turned way more severe earlier than the flight might take off.
‘I used to be on the aircraft able to take off after which that is after I totally crashed. That is after I had a stroke and went into coronary heart and lung failure,’ Dooley mentioned.
She was stabilised by docs, with Dooley subsequently being transferred to Honolulu on the following flight.
The 24-year-old was taken straight to hospital the place she underwent a process to empty the fluid on her head.
‘I bear in mind, mum was by my bedside and I bear in mind I used to be holding her hand. I used to be simply so scared,’ Dooley mentioned.
Though she could not converse whereas she was within the ICU, she mentioned: ‘In my head I used to be like: “I’ll die.” I bear in mind saying: “Goodbye” and saying: “I really like you.” It was simply terrifying.’
The Melbourne Renegades star mirrored on the ‘terrifying ordeal’ earlier than opening up on her dream to return to the cricket pitch
Dooley spoke out on studying easy methods to stroll once more, including that she requested her mother and father to deliver her cricket bat into hospital in order that she might apply her batting
She additionally impressed her Renegades team-mates to their huge bash title, with the workforce hanging a her jersey up within the dressing room for the ultimateÂ
Twenty-eight days later she was flown again to Australia the place she would start additional remedy, together with studying easy methods to stroll once more.
‘I knew easy methods to stroll, however my mind and my physique simply could not… I did not know the place the bottom was,’ she added.
However with cricket being such an enormous love of hers, Dooley had requested her mother and father to fetch her cricket bat from dwelling so she might apply hitting photographs in hospital, along with her dad holding her up.
‘I believe at that stage, I used to be like: “Why not try to dream to get again to skilled cricket”. I am somebody who may be very goal-driven.’
Whereas she had been unable to play on this 12 months’s WBBL, Dooley nonetheless performed a component in uplifting her Renegades team-mates to win this 12 months’s title.
Her shirt had been hung up within the MCG altering rooms forward of their last conflict in opposition to Brisbane Warmth, with Dooley having written ‘do not f*** it up’ on the entrance of the shirt.
Renegades captain Sophie Molineux known as Dooley ‘the guts and soul of the workforce’ earlier than branding the wicketkeeper-batter ‘inspirational’.
‘She’s simply the whole lot that the Renegades are about, it’s Josie to a tee,’ she mentioned. ‘She’s so inspirational, not simply to us that know her, however to anybody that is aware of her story.
‘For her to be as concerned as a lot as she might be this season for us, simply to have her presence and being round, she’s simply as a lot part of this season as some other season she’s been round.’
Her restoration has been a really inspiring story, with Dooley now concentrating on a return to the cricket pitch.
