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Billie Kaczynski suffered a grade four anerysm and was placed in a two-week coma after she underwent emergency brain surgery to stop a bleed. When Ms Kaczynski woke up, she could not walk and had no memory. “My dad and I went for a bush walk and then at 10pm that night I came out to my dad crying, saying I had the worst headache I’ve experienced,” she told A Current Affair. Her dad said before he could get to her she collapsed to the ground in pain and then had a seizure. The family was told the right side of her body and her speech would be affected. “For a kid that was so healthy, it was scary,” her dad said. Ms Kaczynski said when she woke up she could not remember she went to university, had been to concerts or participated in physical culture — a type of dance training that had been a passion — for most of her life. It was only when her teacher visited and started playing music that she began moving. “I didn’t know it in my head but my body just knew what to do,” Ms Kaczynski said. Six weeks later, she walked out of hospital and went back to her class. Just four months later, she was perfoming again. Ms Kaczynski said physical culture saved her life. “No doubt, it definitely did,” she said.
