How to call on the lives of patients registered this woman

Sharon Dajon had a headache and not most of the day felt good. Dajon knew she was healthy - Marathon Training for the Marine Corps in October should have put aside any doubts - the President and CEO of American Health advice was low as luck of the draw .ventanilla report reception: " I just put the page "said WTVR-TV, and called in sick.

This single call saved her life. A colleague who noticed something strange in his voice and got Dajon concerned with the potentially dangerous situation. It was. A trip to the emergency room revealed a brain aneurysm.

An aneurysm is a " balloon-like bulge in an artery that carries oxygen-rich blood to the body part, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood ". A brain aneurysm in a blood vessel in the brain. As explained by the Mayo Clinic, if leakage or rupture of the aneurysm, the people has a stroke, which can cause long term problems or death .

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Most cerebral aneurysms are not lost or damaged and no symptoms. Are problems and doctors Stealth rule over them by accident. Dajon had: an aneurysm in the brain suddenly broken previously hidden. One-fifth of patients with brain aneurysm die before they reach the hospital, Dr. John Gaughen, interventional neurosurgery at the University of Virginia Medical Center WTVR-TV said.

Luckily for Dajon Virginia Hospital Bon Secours Mary was in Richmond, accepted. The hospital had to UVA Medical Center, a new type of aneurysm treatment since 2011 only FDA approved worked.

The treatment produced a minimally invasive technique , says the website of the Bon Secours. More literally open part skull for open brain surgery, new technology consists of a small incision in an artery. A catheter is introduced and applied to the damaged vessel in the brain.

For Dajon Gaughen inserts the catheter with a stent river investor can ignore the weakened wall of the blood vessel, an artery in the hip. The medical team then threading the catheter to the brain and placed the stent.

Six months after the procedure. "Let's see, cured," said Gaughen WTVR-TV. "The fact that the stent to be open for all purposes of this be cured, and they can go to the life you want to live lived before."

Speaking to stay on life, after a brief rest Dajon plans on the way back to the marathon Myrtle Beach to train on Valentine's Day. She told the station, "I like that endorphin high."

And live.