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Share your story about how brain aneurysms have impacted your life and become a Bee Strong contributor for The Bee Foundation.
Amy Leigh Horan is a playwright, photographer, and PR professional who currently lives in Washington, DC. We are so pleased to have Amy at this year’s 5th Annual Honey Bash Gala as one of very special guests. Her play Burst: is a recollection with humor and heart of her mother’s survival of a brain aneurysm. Burst […]
A recollection of surviving a brain aneurysm. From the article ‘In the Cobwebs of my Mind’ from edge magazine. “The subarachnoid space is where the cerebral spinal fluid circulates and is responsible for protecting your brain from injury. Serving as a cushion. A hemorrhage in this space can cause a coma, paralysis and even death.” — […]
In March of 2015, Kavita Basi was taken to the hospital with a life-threatening illness – a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. She was treated with 4 brain operations. There is a 50% survival rate with the remainder of those who do survive having serious disabilities like hearing, difficulty walking, partially paralyzed and brain damage. Kavita has overcome […]
Mary Brewer recently reached out to The Bee Foundation to share the story of her daughter, Mallory Brewer, and the wonderful life she lived that was ended too soon by a ruptured brain aneurysm. Read on to learn more about Mallory Brewer and what you can do to support brain aneurysm research and awareness, as […]
Mary Brewer recently reached out to The Bee Foundation to share the story of her daughter, Mallory Brewer, and the wonderful life she lived that was ended too soon by a ruptured brain aneurysm. Read on to learn more about Mallory Brewer and what you can do to support brain aneurysm research and awareness, as […]
Our story began in June of 2010. We thought we’d put our trials behind us, as I was recovering from three strokes that nearly took my life on April 16, 2009. I had learned to walk, talk, and drive like a normal mom and wife again. Our 10 year old daughter was looking forward to […]
January, 2017 Today marks one year since I was diagnosed with two unruptured brain aneurysms. The diagnosis came upon my life very unexpectedly. I was 29 years old, recently married, and had only just given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Life seemed to be going perfectly. It truly is amazing how one second could […]
We at The Bee Foundation appreciate the opportunities we have to speak with other people whose lives have been impacted by brain aneurysms. Recently, we had the privilege of interviewing Rachel Elizabeth Seed, daughter of successful New York writer, editor, and producer Sheila Turner-Seed, who passed away as the result of a ruptured brain aneurysm […]
A reminder to nurture your brain, body and mind with good food, fitness, connection and purpose. Get your tickets to the 3rd Annual Honey Bash Gala now! As Ella Fitzgerald has sung, “Into each life some rain must fall.” But sometimes, seemingly out of nowhere, people experience a downpour that rocks their world like nothing else. […]
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