Share Your Story
Share your story about how brain aneurysms have impacted your life and become a Bee Strong contributor for The Bee Foundation.
Brain aneurysms are an alarming medical trauma. It’s spontaneous, fatal and for those who do survive it can be cataclysmic on the brain. Some of us escape this monstrosity unscathed, others are left with motor and cognitive deficits. How many people can attest that they had knowledge of what a brain aneurysm was before they […]
In January 2018, I hit my head pretty hard and went to the doctor. It was not serious but I decided to bring up something I had thought about for years. I figured I had already paid the co=pay and should get a few more things in. I asked if I could get tested for […]
Hello I’m Michelle, married to Mark, have 2 awesome adult (yikes) children, one grand baby and come from the Deep South of NZ – Gore. This time 2 years ago I found out I had a rather surprising cerebral aneurysm situated on the right side of my brain. My neurologist had sent for a MRI […]
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 […]
7/17/17 Started out my day at Orange Theory Club then worked all day, finished my day having a stroke. I was 54 in great shape couldn’t check one thing off the list why I would be having a stroke . Most important part of the stroke was my husband insisting I go to the hospital […]
19th December 2014. I’d been out to a work lunch, I was an EMT1 and worked stupid shifts that ruined sleep and socials. So it was a nice time to get 15 odd paramedics and EMTs together. Didn’t feel particularly well, and in their own normal crew mate way, I got told I looked shit, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In September 2011, I was taken to the emergency room with what can only be described as the worst migraine of my life. I went thinking they’d only give me the cocktail of medications for migraines but after talking with the nurse he insisted I needed to ask for further testing. So I did and […]
In March, 2018 I made an appointment for a physical. I had just turned 40 and we had recently moved so it seemed like a good idea to get connected with a primary care practitioner. I met with a nurse practitioner named Lauren in Middlebury, Vermont. I mentioned to her that every month I would […]