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Remembering Kathleen Rakowski, October 26, 1966-November 17, 2012. The day started off as any regular day would for my mother and I. I woke up bright and early for school and she braided my hair, made me breakfast, and made sure to do our daily handshake we created together before I gave her a hug […]
My story of survival starts before I was born a little over 30 years ago and is one that my whole family is a part of. My older brother survived a brain tumor in his cerebellum and has done extremely well. He has a wife, dog and twin boys that are 9 months old now. […]
On September 29, 2016, my fiancé, Jerame, and I had gotten home from our Life Group, it was about 9pm. I was packing my bag for a weekend back home in Emporia and to do makeup for a bridal party. Jerame was in the other room and I went to talk to him about something […]
BEE Article – Haddonfield LIving September 2020 Last year, I traveled to Washington DC with a delegation of doctors, scientists, survivors and others to advocate for Brain Aneurysm awareness and research and to promote Ellie’s Law—legislation named for a seven- year-old girl who died following a ruptured brain aneurysm, to provide ongoing dedicated research funding, critical intervention and […]
Hello Everyone, my name is Jenny Garcia and and on December 23, 2017 I was diagnosed with a Brain Anuerysm of 3mm by my cardiologist. I was 47 years old. “Small” she said, “nothing to really worry about”. The only people i know that have had an anuerysm had died before they even made it […]
In September of 2017, I traveled to Spain with my 21-year old son, to attend a family member’s wedding. The night before the wedding, we were in an elevator on our way to dinner when I noticed there was an area of my peripheral vision which was missing from my left eye. I became aware […]
Much like most ailments, aneurysms can include co-morbid symptoms. Therefore, when signs appear you must be vigilant and note things that seem different than usual. In 2018 I was a 28-year-old full time working mother to a seventeen-month-old beautiful soul and in love with my best friend. We were starting a life together with our […]
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 […]