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In the early hours of November 13, 2018, I transformed from an independent 21-year-old student in my senior year of college into a stroke survivor.With no warning signs, I felt what I can only describe as a rush over my head and I laid back in my bed. With overwhelming fear, I went to reach […]
On November 8, 2020, a new chapter of my life began when I had a brain aneurysm rupture, or as I like to call it, a brain fart. As a person who takes care of myself, I never thought that something like this would happen to me, but it did. Unfortunately, I learned that there […]
It’s been almost 2 years since I suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage. It happened four days after my 39th birthday. I went from chasing after my three year old daughter to being rushed in for emergency brain surgery due to a ruptured aneurysm. The onset was an initial headache and it felt like someone hit me […]
On Friday, June 29th, 2018, I was going to fly to visit my parents. My brother and his family were already there visiting. At the time, I had thought of getting my Ph.D. in creative writing, so I had applied to a bunch of schools and did not renew my contract at my most recent teaching […]
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 […]
Kati was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm on Monday August 24, 2020. She always complained of headaches but never thought it was serious enough. Finally, I told her to go in after saying she was nauseous and they were unbearable. After a day in the ER she called me crying saying they had found a […]
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 […]
I am currently 32 years old and prior to my AVM, I worked as a Professional Pasty Chef. It all began with a couple of extreme migraines. The first migraine happened in the Spring of 2019, while I was at work preparing pastry, coming to the end of my early morning shift. I experienced a […]
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 […]