Frankielen da Silva Zampoli Padilha was only nine weeks pregnant with twins when a pounding headache radically changed the future of her family forever.
Nine weeks is a common period for women to suffer a miscarriage—but not Frankielen.
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She frantically called her husband Muriel on his way to work and begged him to come home as soon as possible.
“She said her head was killing her. I told her to take a tablet. But she said there was a sharp pain at the back of her neck and it was so strong she felt she was going to collapse.”
When he returned home to a crying, shaking, dizzy, vomiting, Frankielen, Muriel rushed his wife to the hospital.
The 21-year-old knew she was suffering from more than just a headache.
“As I drove her to hospital, she said, ‘I want you to be prepared to accept this because I will be staying there, I won’t be coming home.’”
Muriel said those were his wife’s final words to him. She had a stroke after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The busted vein caused severe bleeding in the brain, leaving the young mother brain dead. The unborn babies were expected to die
