Horror moment dad-of-three collapses in front of his family after day out with the kids - before he's rushed to hospital READ MORE: How a brain aneurysm robbed me of all my wedding day memories By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:39 BST, 22 August 2024 | Updated: 20:42 BST, 22 August 2024 e-mail View comments This is the moment a father-of-three suffers from a sudden brain bleed that kills up to 50 percent of patients. Thomas Gallagher, from Michigan , was drinking water in the kitchen after a day out when he suddenly felt a 'barbaric' pain shooting through his head and the back of his neck.
After collapsing on his child's bed and crying out in pain, he was rushed to hospital and then airlifted to a nearby unit — where he was diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or a bleed between the brain and brain lining. His wife Grace said she feared that when her husband was airlifted to hospital she would never see him again. Thomas Gallagher, from Michigan, had been on a family day out with four-year-old son Auggie hours before the sudden brain bleed She wrote on Instagram: 'When they closed the helicopter doors, I thought it might be the last time I would see him.
'Basically, all I was reading was that Tom was about to die.' Subarachnoid hemorrhages are so deadly because they can cause other blood vessels to tighten — reducing blood flow to the organ and leading to a stroke. They can also put pressure on the brain, raising the risk of blood.