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Survivor Around the Globe, Markelle Harden
Just a few months shy of my 40th birthday, I was feeling really good about things as the “over the hill” day was approaching. I successfully navigated a big career change in my mid-thirties, and my family and I were starting to feel settled after a cross-country move. In slow motion, everything changed. I woke […]
Posted on Thursday, January 4, 2018Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Candy Booth
I’m a survivor of multiple brain aneurysms (10 aneurysms, in fact!). On October 19th, 2010 I experienced the worst headache I have ever had and began throwing up. Since I had a history of stomach problems, I thought it was just another episode and went to bed. My husband Donnie and our son Kyle were […]
Posted on Monday, November 13, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Marissa Ree
My ‘Big Bang’ happened on the evening of September 28th, 2016. I was in my spinning bike looked at the time and thought “Five more minutes and I’ll get off.” Bam! It hit me, in the top if my head, like no other pain I’ve ever felt. I shook my head thinking “God, what is […]
Posted on Monday, September 25, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Tricia Bonilla Harrison
The Strength of Love Bombs were exploding in my head. One after the other. It was the single most extraordinary pain I have experienced in my life. I never knew that I knew what an aneurysm was until one of mine was rupturing. Just like that, a simple and ordinary day changed into a day […]
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Carol Carlson
It was a beautiful early fall day in October 2002. My wife, Carol, and I had both taken a day off from work that Friday to do mundane things in the yard and house. We had recently experienced a comfortable change in our lives, being no longer responsible for the day to day parenting of […]
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2017Read More