One in every 50 Americans has a chance of experiencing the type of headache that no amount of medicine can dull–one with a 40% fatality rate. Typically non-symptomatic and often undiagnosed, brain aneurysms are bulging blood vessels in the brain (picture an expanding water balloon).
One in every 50 Americans has a chance of experiencing the type of headache that no amount of medicine can dull--one with a 40% fatality rate. Share on XEach year 30,000 people have the misfortune of not recognizing their brain aneurysm until it ruptures and produces searing pain. A pain that prompted brain aneurysm survivor Janet Sutherland-Madden to call her mother one March afternoon to say what she believed to be her final goodbye.
What started as one of her daily headaches ended up bringing her dangerously close to death. Soon after Sutherland-Madden dialed 9-1-1, paramedics found her seizing on the kitchen floor and recognized that she was displaying the symptoms of a ruptured brain aneurysm. Amazingly, these paramedics had recently undergone training on how to identify brain aneurysms––a fact Sutherland-Madden recognizes as a true miracle.
Statistically, a brain aneurysm ruptures every 18 minutes, and ruptures have been found to occur twice as often in the African American community compared to Caucasians. Sutherland-Madden discusses these statistics and other truths in her new book Nose Over Toes––a product of her new-found mission to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness about aneurysms.
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- Janet Sutherland-Madden, brain aneurysm rupture survivor and author of Nose Over Toes
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