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  • May 19, 2023
    Father of ‘Jeopardy!’ star dies of brain aneurysm: Here’s what you need to know
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  • May 05, 2023
    UC Research Team Receives Brain Aneurysm Foundation Grant
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  • March 31, 2023
    ‘I Hit The Floor’: Tamala Jones Opens Up About Suffering Brain Aneurysm
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  • February 19, 2023
    ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Actor Tom Sizemore Hospitalized After Suffering Brain Aneurysm
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  • January 25, 2023
    Preventing Brain Aneurysm Ruptures; Education, Awareness, Research
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  • December 15, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Stacey Wolfe, MD, FAANS
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  • December 07, 2022
    Hancock County Couple Shares ‘One Of A Kind’ Brain Bleed Story
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  • December 06, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Ananth K. Vellimana, MD
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  • October 27, 2022
    A Mom Thought Stress and Her Pregnancy Caused Her Devastating Headaches. It Was a Giant Aneurysm
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  • October 20, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Ben Strickland, MD
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  • AdventHealth Brain Aneurysm Support Group

    Winter Park, FL

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  • Baltimore Brain Aneurysm Foundation Support Group

    Lutherville-Timonium, MD

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  • Bay Area Aneurysm and Vascular Malformation Support Group

    San Francisco, CA

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  • October 27, 2022
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A Mom Thought Stress and Her Pregnancy Caused Her Devastating Headaches. It Was a Giant Aneurysm

For about a month during her pregnancy with her third child in 2020, Mallory Wehage experienced intense headaches and struggled to get out of bed.

“They were really like a searing painful headache that was always in the same spot of my head. It was behind my ear, to the back of my neck,” Wehage, 35, of Avon Lake, Ohio, told TODAY. “It was constantly in that same spot.”

Her OB-GYN sent her to a neurologist to undergo an MRI to make sure everything was OK. At the time, she was 22 weeks pregnant. She felt shocked when the doctor informed her of the results: She had a “giant brain aneurysm,” or a bulging blood vessel in the brain, and she needed to go to Cleveland Clinic for care.

 



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