Woman suffering from brain infection recall horrible hallucination: 'I saw his body, the gun, the blood'

Imagine waking up one day, and suddenly seeing blood all over your bedroom floor and a gun. Sharon Martin, from Rhondda Valley in South Wales, panicked when this happened to her. The crime scene in her home convinced her that she had killed her husband without knowing it.

She recalled, as quoted by Daily Mail:

I woke up about 6am for my medication but I thought that I’d killed my husband.

I saw his body, the gun, the blood - it was like something out of a film.

A strange hallucination

In July 2021, Sharon Martin's life took an unexpected turn when she had this unusual hallucination. Indeed, the brain does weird things when your body is not keeping well.Martin's husband was safe and right by her side, but the vision was so clear and vivid that she instantly knew something was very wrong.

After being rushed to the hospital, it was then revealed that the woman had fluid and a cyst in her brain. Turns out, the root of the problem was a little titanium implant that was placed behind her left ear. It was put there seven years prior when Martin was part of a clinical trial totreat her Parkinson's disease. Initially, the chip worked wonders and helped her with her symptoms but the trials were stopped as the results were inconclusive.

Martin, however, was stuck with the implant behind her ear and when she was in the hospital, medics found that it got infected and started leaking from the port system into her brain.

The consequence of a clinical trial

The infection is what was causing all of Martin's problems, and as a result the entire system was surgically removed. As for the cyst and fluid, Martin is unsure whether it is still in her brain.

She explained:

Then they told me I had a brain infection with fluid and a cyst in my brain that they told me was inoperable.

All the system was removed but no one has ever said that the fluid and cyst has gone – I’ve got no idea.

She added:

The research director from Parkinson’s UK told me it was from the port system.

Sharon Martin is still waiting for an apology and says that while it was her choice to do the trial, she did not think 'there was going to be some sort of aftercare.'

The NHS and Parkinson's UK have both responded to Martin's story, and Tim Whittlestone, chief medical officer at North Bristol NHS Trust, has urged her to reach out directly so they can look into the issue.

Both organisations also thanked Martin for her invaluable participation. Whittlestone added:

Without these participants, we would be unable to deliver ground breaking research. This is nowhere more true than in Parkinson’s Disease where our clinical and research teams are working tirelessly to seek novel and enduring treatments.

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Sources used:

National Institute for Health and Care Research

Daily Mail: Woman woke up in 'bloody crime scene', convinced she had murdered her husband, due to hallucinations from rare brain infection caused by 'pioneering' clinical trial

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