Med student meets MU doctors who saved her life
A Missouri medical student who survived a serious stroke near her brainstem got a chance to meet the doctors who saved her life.
Friday, Sydney Priest was able to visit University Hospital.
The team worked to remove a three-centimeter clot in the back of her brain this past January.
She felt dizzy, couldn’t speak and lost control along the right side of her body. She was found unresponsive in her Kirksville apartment before getting flown to Columbia.
The death rate for similar strokes is between 80-90%.
Priest started therapy near her home in Kansas City after spending two weeks at University’s intensive care unit.
Now, she’s switching her career to rehab when she returns to medical school in Fall 2016.
