Graduating Ursuline Academy senior Christine Phan was just a sophomore when a knife-like pain sliced through her brain, nearly knocking her out.
It was Nov. 17, 2007, and Phan had just suffered a stroke.
Rushed to an area hospital, Phan remembers being hooked up to six beeping machines, surrounded by her parents and sister and thinking, “This is how I am going to die.”
She had less than a one-percent chance of survival.
“It’s a beautiful day near the end of the summer and I am laying on the walk in front of my house bleeding to death. I hear sirens approaching from the distance.” – Robert Brown, Cincinnati
Ronald Stang was in the basement when a ruptured aortic aneurysm very nearly ended his life. As his abdomen began to fill with blood, Ronald miraculously located a phone and dialed 9-1-1, even as sharp pains began to signal massive internal bleeding. The ambulance arrived, rushing a fading Ronald to the closest community hospital. Doctors there realized the severity of his condition and phoned vascular surgeon, Dr. Joseph Giglia of University Hospital.
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