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A stroke could end your life, especially if it’s a cerebral haemorrhage. This happens when a weakened blood vessel supplying the brain bursts. How can you prevent this from occurring? There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke, one when a blood vessel bursts causing bleeding on the brain, or another when a brain aneurysm occurs. […]
Hello, my name is Bryn. At age 26, I was loving life in Anchorage, Alaska where I was working as a Critical Care Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit with my boyfriend, Derek. We worked together and on our days off, we skied, hiked and enjoyed the beauty of Alaska. May 20, 2019 began […]
The day of May 3, 2018 was pretty uneventful. My husband had a doctor’s appointment so I had taken the day off to take him to his appointment. We made a pot roast for dinner that night. I haven’t eaten pot roast since. Around 10:45pm I started getting sick. VERY sick. I honestly thought I […]
My name is Hillary. I am a physician, dog mom, runner, world traveler, and ruptured brain aneurysm survivor. At age 32, I had just completed my medical training and moved from Dallas, TX to Raleigh, NC to start my first “real” job in my chosen field of Pediatric Endocrinology. I was staying with my parents […]
September 9, 2018 My husband John and I got married in Seattle. Family and friends had come for the wedding weekend. It was beautiful. Everyone left by Tuesday and I returned to my new job as an LPN at the Puget Sound VA. I had been a Paramedic for 10 years and was completing my […]
My brain aneurysm happened in May of 2015 at the age of 41. It came as shock, I know of no family history and I live a healthy lifestyle. I only drink once in a blue moon, have never smoked or tried drugs and am a Vegan. It turns out that the birth control pills […]
I remember asking an ICU nurse, “How do you spell the word aneurysm?” I was a college professor of English who had landed in the neurological ICU of St. David’s Hospital in Austin, and I could not visualize the word itself. I had no memory of ever using the word until my own medical diagnosis […]
“He’s perfect.” Those were the last words Finn’s pediatrician said to us at an appointment less than 14 hours before an undiscovered aneurysm ruptured in our seemingly perfect 11-month-old baby boy’s brain. We left the pediatrician’s office that day confident in a teething diagnosis, but unbeknownst to us, that night I would put Finn to […]
Hello my name is Leanna Allen I am currently 42 years old and on August 6, 2019 I suffered from a brain aneurysm rupture. At the time I was 39 about to turn 40. It was about 8 o’clock in the evening I was at home with my at the time 20-year-old son and his […]
My name is Tricia and I am a 53-year-old brain aneurysm survivor. On November 8, 2020, my life was changed forever. I was watching football with my daughter when I passed out and started foaming at the mouth. 911 was called and I came to with the worst headache of my life. The paramedics were sure it […]