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Carol’s Story – A Life-Saving Surgery Insurance Won’t Cover
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain, which can leak or rupture causing a hemorrhagic stroke, also known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Often, there are no warning signs unless or until the bulging vessel begins to cause headache pain or blurred vision. While lifestyle can contribute to a brain aneurysm, it can also be a result of heredity, as with the case of my oldest and dearest friend, Carol Zawalski Kleinberg.
Carol was one of four girls in her family – the youngest, Sue, suffered from a brain aneurysm when she was only in her thirties. Miraculously, she survived with two surgeries. Carol’s older sister Debbie wasn’t so lucky. After having survived stage 4 breast cancer, Debbie died suddenly when her undetected aneurysm burst. She was only 51. It was at this time that Carol’s doctor suggested she be checked for aneurysms, since there was such a strong hereditary link.
The findings: they discovered an aneurysm in Carol’s brain.
Eleven years ago, Carol underwent surgery to insert a coil around the aneurysm to prevent it from bursting. While this method is highly effective, it is also subjected to a shifting of the coil over time.
Unfortunately, this has happened in Carol’s case, and she now must undergo a second brain surgery – this time, to insert a stent inside the coil (like a sleeve) to contain the aneurysm, which has grown due to the coil shifting.
The prospect of brain surgery is daunting on its own, even once. Having to go through it twice is harrowing. But having to go through it a second time and be told that your health insurance company won’t cover the life-saving surgery you need because it was a pre-existing condition, and that you have to come up with half of the estimated $125,000.00 the surgery will cost upfront is nothing short of criminal.
So when the systems that are supposedly designed to “protect us”, don’t, where do we turn? We turn to each other to help however we can – whether it’s to make a donation to help a friend and loved one, to pay forward a kindness someone may have given us at some point, or to take a stand against the injustice of a healthcare system that turns its back on people at their most vulnerable – I am asking you to please help with any kind of donation and by sharing this Go Fund Me request with your friends, family, co-workers, places of worship, local charity organizations, clubs – whomever - and on social media so as many people as possible can see this.
Carol has been my dearest and closest friend since we were in grammar school. She is truly one of the most amazing, kind, and generous people that has ever walked the face of the earth and I have been blessed beyond measure to have her in my life for so many years, as is everyone whose lives she is a part of, or that she has touched. Please help. Thank you.
#carolsurgery, #brainaneurysm, #barrowneurologicalinstitute, #neurology, #neurosurgery, #bloomfieldhighclassof77, #brainsurgery, #aneurysm, @barrowneurological, #neuroplexatbarrowneurologicalinstitute
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain, which can leak or rupture causing a hemorrhagic stroke, also known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Often, there are no warning signs unless or until the bulging vessel begins to cause headache pain or blurred vision. While lifestyle can contribute to a brain aneurysm, it can also be a result of heredity, as with the case of my oldest and dearest friend, Carol Zawalski Kleinberg.
Carol was one of four girls in her family – the youngest, Sue, suffered from a brain aneurysm when she was only in her thirties. Miraculously, she survived with two surgeries. Carol’s older sister Debbie wasn’t so lucky. After having survived stage 4 breast cancer, Debbie died suddenly when her undetected aneurysm burst. She was only 51. It was at this time that Carol’s doctor suggested she be checked for aneurysms, since there was such a strong hereditary link.
The findings: they discovered an aneurysm in Carol’s brain.
Eleven years ago, Carol underwent surgery to insert a coil around the aneurysm to prevent it from bursting. While this method is highly effective, it is also subjected to a shifting of the coil over time.
Unfortunately, this has happened in Carol’s case, and she now must undergo a second brain surgery – this time, to insert a stent inside the coil (like a sleeve) to contain the aneurysm, which has grown due to the coil shifting.
The prospect of brain surgery is daunting on its own, even once. Having to go through it twice is harrowing. But having to go through it a second time and be told that your health insurance company won’t cover the life-saving surgery you need because it was a pre-existing condition, and that you have to come up with half of the estimated $125,000.00 the surgery will cost upfront is nothing short of criminal.
So when the systems that are supposedly designed to “protect us”, don’t, where do we turn? We turn to each other to help however we can – whether it’s to make a donation to help a friend and loved one, to pay forward a kindness someone may have given us at some point, or to take a stand against the injustice of a healthcare system that turns its back on people at their most vulnerable – I am asking you to please help with any kind of donation and by sharing this Go Fund Me request with your friends, family, co-workers, places of worship, local charity organizations, clubs – whomever - and on social media so as many people as possible can see this.
Carol has been my dearest and closest friend since we were in grammar school. She is truly one of the most amazing, kind, and generous people that has ever walked the face of the earth and I have been blessed beyond measure to have her in my life for so many years, as is everyone whose lives she is a part of, or that she has touched. Please help. Thank you.
#carolsurgery, #brainaneurysm, #barrowneurologicalinstitute, #neurology, #neurosurgery, #bloomfieldhighclassof77, #brainsurgery, #aneurysm, @barrowneurological, #neuroplexatbarrowneurologicalinstitute
Organisator und Spendenbegünstigter
Lydia Fedos
Organisator
Bloomfield, NJ
Carol Kleinberg
Spendenbegünstigte