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Headstands for Mallory 2020

For the past 4 years The Bee Foundation has held the Headstands for Mallory campaign in honor of Mallory Brewer, a 27 year old who tragically passed away in 2016 due to a ruptured brain aneurysm. Mallory was a 2011 University of Pittsburgh graduate, where she competed as a collegiate gymnast. She “flipped” through life and really made […]

Thoughts During a COVID Nightmare

Author: J Mocco I am happy most of the country has not gone through what we have here. However, without shared experience, how do we understand? I would like to try to convey some of my thoughts, having experienced, first hand, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic over the past 2 months in New York City. It is not […]

Jenna Riccio

September 4, 2015. Labor Day weekend, my aneurysm ruptured. I was just 23 years old. I want to share my story in hopes it will help spread awareness. Before this happened to me I really didn’t know anything about Brain Aneurysm’s and had never known anyone who had experienced one. Leading up to my rupture […]

Camryn Ashton

My name is Camryn Ashton. I had a hemorrhagic stroke Jan 2018 in Camp Fuji Japan on deployment I had a massive headache and in the middle of the night I went to the bathroom to throw up. I couldn’t get anything out and I guess I started seizing, I say I guess because I […]

ER doc: Stay home, Philly. COVID isn’t over yet | Expert Opinion

Patricia Henwood, For The Inquirer KAREN KIRCHHOFF / THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY “Patricia Henwood,MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College shares her insight on the front lines from the ER. “One thing is clear, the fight is not over, staying home is still the best decision. However, the scale […]

COVID-19 Update From Our Founders

“WE CAN DO HARD THINGS” One of my 2020 goals was to read more. With guidance, and a little extra time on my hands, I have found myself lost in Glennon Doyle’s new book Untamed. Throughout her memoir, she comes back to these 5 little words…We Can Do Hard Things. Each time I hear them […]

COVID-19 Stroke Study

Two of the renowned doctors on our Scientific Advisory Board are on the forefront of explorations into yet another twist in what the medical community is learning about Covid-19. Recent articles in The Washington Post, among many others, report the surprising findings. Both coronavirus and strokes have been typically thought to primarily affect older people. […]

Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes

Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. By Ariana Eunjung Cha April 25, 2020 at 2:12 p.m. EDT Thomas Oxley wasn’t even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There […]

Oilers’ Colby Cave, 25, dies after suffering brain bleed

A message from the Cave family as well as statements from the Edmonton Oilers, Bakersfield Condors and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman FROM THE FAMILY OF COLBY CAVE: It is with great sadness to share the news that our Colby Cave passed away early this morning. I (Emily) and both our families are in shock but […]

Stacey Gil

April 6, 2019, is a day I’ll never remember, but I now can never forget. I’m told I had my morning cup of coffee in hand, about to enjoy an early cup with my boyfriend on our back porch. I woke up 3 weeks later, after a drug induced coma, with tubes attached to every […]

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