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“I wrote this for a class I had. It’s almost been a year since my mom’s brain aneurysm. Thankfully, she’s okay. But this story is about how terrifying it can be for the family as well. Miracles “Do you like these flowers?” I ask, pointing to the flowers on my Pinterest account. My mom mumbles […]
Another touching story of how lives can be impacted by brain aneurysms; from Kristi Resendez – “Have you ever heard someone laugh so hard they snort? That laugh is what I miss most about my friend and former co-worker Jill Liccioni. This laugh was her every day, multiple times a day, kind of laugh. When something […]
The Bee Foundation recently had the pleasure of speaking with our biggest fundraiser for the Philadelphia Marathon Bee Team, Carlos Azuero. Carlos’s generosity with his time and training efforts have raised $1,055 so far. Here are some insights into his preparation to run and his inspiration through personal experience with brain aneurysms. Bee: How did […]
My brother Angelo 17 at the time had a brain aneurysm do to an AVM in the back of his brain. He happened to be at school when he got an uncontrollable headache and started loosing his senses. He was rushed to a nearby hospital after he started having seizures. He was air lifted to […]
MY STORY I am a two-time brain aneurysm survivor. I had a rupture in 2006 and that was coiled and then in 2011 a 2nd one was discovered and that was clipped (un-ruptured) in January, 2014. During that time period I also lost my sister to a ruptured brain aneurysm and my husband’s niece died […]
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — It is estimated that one in every fifty people is living with a brain aneurysm. They can be silent killers, but Sharon Adams caught hers in the nick of time. She remembers that day, January 8, 2014. Adams was at home in bed resting after a bout with the flu. […]
“I lost my father Lee Shreves to a brain aneurysm rupture on his brain stem in 2001 when he was only 51 and recently my mom suffered from a leaking brain aneurysm from which a second aneurysm was detected she is currently only 52. It’s an underlying fear in my family that it can or […]
I was that girl. The girl that thought – if you exercised, had a healthy diet, and took care of yourself physically that nothing could happen. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. 4 out of 10 people suffer a ruptured brain aneurysm: And, I am one of them. At 31, I felt as though I was […]
Last month, September 12th, was my daughter’s birthday. We spent last year tiptoeing around this date, afraid to address it directly for fear it would simply rip the wound open anew. This year, we spent it up in Maine at the 7th annual KAT-Walk & Karo 5-K, originally established to honor two young women, almost the same […]