Kerri Stowe Danner’s page

Hi! My 46 year old baby sister, Kerri Stowe Danner, had a  brain aneurysm on Tuesday, February 26. Andy, her husband, worked third shift out of town in Indianapolis Monday night, then drove home to Cincinnati Tuesday morning. Monday night she had a headache and Tuesday morning it was a lot worse so when he got home she told Andy she was going to call the doctor. He went up to bed then was awakened by a call from her downstairs that she could not use her right leg or arm. He called 911 and they rushed her to the Emergency Room.

In the Emergency Room, her heart rate dropped and she became unresponsive. They air lifted Kerri to another hospital where neurosurgeons cut a piece out of her skull, cleaned it and froze it and worked for 6 hours to stop the bleeding. Nurses and doctors have commented they have not seen an aneurysm that big. She survived the surgery and was moved to ICU Tuesday night. The doctor's said she would be in ICU for 2 weeks while they waited for the swelling to go down and they could remove the intubation tube. 

Day 6 she has a high fever and pneumonia and has yet to regain consciousness.

Of the three girls in my family, Kerri is the only mother. We flew her daughter in from college, her son works third shift so I woke him up and pulled her youngest daughter from grade school so they could be with their Mom.  

Kerri works for the IRS and is scheduled to lose her job in September when the Cincinnati Center closes. She was lucky enough to get a detail and just this week the job was posted, although she cannot post for the permanent full time job and nobody can do it on her behalf. Kerri carries the family's health insurance.

I am seeking money to support my sister's family to cover medical bills and keep them from losing their house.