Publications

Hope Stories

• Charlie’s Story: Epilepsy

  By Charlie Shor I have had many adventures in my 57 years, and I have accomplished much. But the main message of my story, which I have been given the opportunity to share, is that anything is possible. If you have...

• Alison’s Story: Ruptured Aneurysm following Neurotrauma

  She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered...

• Courtney’s Story: Traumatic Spine Injury

  Courtney is positive that she was wearing her seatbelt. Perhaps that is why her head and neck – thankfully -- were fine. Perhaps that is also why her midsection was so violently impacted, as the force of the rollover twisted...

• Scott’s Story

  Scott has no recollection of the concrete wall. His wife, Sondra, knows only what she was told. And that, she says, is something of a fish story, with the wall growing with every telling … from eight feet, to 10...

• Zettie’s Story: Aphasia

  In November of 2004, Zettie Williams confronted what neurologists consider one of the most feared consequences of stroke. When a therapist showed her a photograph of her son, she knew she was looking at her son, but she couldn’t say...

• Alisha’s Story: Acoustic Neuroma

  There was a time in Alisha’s young life when she was angry at her fate and bitter about her life. “I wondered why this had to happen to me,” she said. Her outlook has changed to one of eagerness and...

• Leah’s Story: Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)

  Leah is a young woman who sings, dances, and plays the guitar. She is also a survivor of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). It is rare for someone in her mid-teens to have had an AVM, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels...

• Alison’s Story: Ruptured Aneurysm following Neurotrauma

  She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered...

• Amber’s Story: Ruptured Aneurysm

  The only visible sign of Amber Gray’s ordeal is the long slender scar   that runs along her forearm. It is the area where a surgeon carefully   removed her radial artery, which was needed to bypass a damaged artery   in her...

• Laura’s Story: Traumatic Spine Injury

  What began as a shortcut became, for Laura Brunner, a monumental detour. Laura, a prominent Cincinnati business executive, was enjoying a mountain hike in Montana with fellow trustees from the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts when the group decided...