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The Caregivers Side – Christina Cook
On November 29th, 2017, my daughter went to school with a stomachache. I received a call from the nurse stating she had started throwing up and I went and picked her up from school. She continued throwing up for a while. She had a headache, so I gave her Motrin, and she threw that up. […]
Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2021Read 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 -
Caregiver Around the Globe, Greg Payan
My wife, Holly, woke up on April 21, 2014 incapacitated by a terrible headache. She was an otherwise healthy 39-year old college professor who exercised regularly and taught yoga. She began to have a seizure and her eyes rolled back into her head. After calling 911, she stabilized, so when the EMTs arrived they thought […]
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018Read 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