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Survivors Around the Globe – Tori Kloss
On August 21st, 2012, being 12 at the time, I experienced the WORST pain, basically a silent killer in disguise. My AVM occurred in my cerebellum and I was not supposed to live. The doctors came out and told my parents (who rushed to Children s hospital of Pitt. right after I was lifeflighted) the […]
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Survivor Around the Globe, Megan Bacigalupo
My body became a clock. Time pushed forward as a force moved me to get me to where I needed to go. I felt like a Derby horse with blinders, and all I could see was the ambulance that I imagined — a life source after it was called. Everything lined up for me almost […]
Posted on Monday, June 25, 2018Read More -
Caregiver Around the Globe, Cindy Shandorf
On May 16th, 2014 my husband, Frank, went into surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm (under the assumption that it was a 6-hour clipping) – instead, he went through a 12-hour resection surgery. Dr. Gardner removed the aneurysm and cut away ‘bad’ arteries and sewed the ‘good’ arteries together. He suffered status epilepticus and respiratory failure during surgery. […]
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2018Read More -
Caregiver Around the Globe, Nancy Tran
On June 8th 2017, just five days after my daughter’s, 14th birthday, she collapsed at volleyball practice and slowly became unconscious. The paramedics were called and Audrey was taken to one of the best head trauma hospitals where they found her brain AVM ruptured. The bleed was so massive they had to do immediate surgery […]
Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2018Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Jung Jacobs
On December 13th, 2013, around 10:00am, I suddenly experienced a stiff, painful neck and began to lose my hearing. When trying to stand, I collapsed. An ambulance was called and I was transported to the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. During the trip, I had a seizure and my heart stopped. I was […]
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2018Read More