Patient Stories
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patient suffered aneurysm condition of two on either side of the brain
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If you are going to have a stroke, you could hardly plan it any better than to be in a room three floors down from an endovascular neurosurgeon like Dr. Sean Lavine–but that is exactly what happened to Michael Walker.
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In the late afternoon of a Friday in June, retired teacher’s aid, Janice C. Silver was resting comfortably in her hospital bed in the Cardiac Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
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Casilda Beltre's story begins with a pounding headache and a trip to the emergency room.
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When Marie Elaine suddenly lost the function in her right hand, a neurologist sent her right to the hospital. There she found out that she’d had multiple strokes.
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On October 18, 2011, Ellen “Ferne” Glemby was in a car accident that changed her life. “A kid cut in front of me,” says Ferne. “My car was totaled, and he walked away.”
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When Melissa was warming up to exercise, she suddenly felt disoriented. When she still felt strange the next day, she went to the hospital. It was the last thing she ever expected to hear: An aneurysm had ruptured in her brain.
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Today, Kevin—KC to his friends—can play piano and speak again.
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Kevin Chambers Steedle is a young musician who suffered a life-threatening bleed in his brain. Now Kevin has given his doctors an honor about which few neurosurgeons can boast: He thanked them in the liner notes of his latest CD.
