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Survivor Around the Globe, Tara Thornton
In Oct of 2006 I started having memory and balance issues. At that time I was a cocktail waitress in a casino in Las Vegas. An EMT at work suggested I get checked out by my doctor. I made an appointment for the next day. My doctor thought I had a herniated disc and sent […]
Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2017Read More -
Caregiver Around the Globe, Christine Hryb
It was at 5:00AM, my 18 year-old daughter, Gabriella, just got finished with her early morning workout before school (her senior year) on April 24th, 2017. She started complaining of her head really hurting and started crying because of the pain. She then stumble in the kitchen and started throwing up several times. We called […]
Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Ronald Kratz
I was planned to travel 500 miles to North Carolina and surprise visit my aunt and uncle, but both had plans to go out of state so I cancelled reservations. Since I had off work, I took my mom out to visit my dads grave and stopped in a local casino resort on the way. […]
Posted on Friday, July 7, 2017Read More -
Caregiver Around the Globe, Reena Bayardo
I am the daughter of a mom that lost her life to a ruptured aneurysm when I was only 16 – my mother was only 36. Then, on December 18th, 2015, my 15 year-old daughter was walking to school and collapsed, went unconscious and woke up vomiting. She called me as I was on my way […]
Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Courtney Cuba
I was made aware of my AVM in April 2013 when I was in a car accident. The hospital ran scans on my brain just to be sure I didn’t have a bleed from the impact of the accident and they stumbled upon my AVM. I never had any symptoms in my 29 years of […]
Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2017Read More