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I am sitting on a plane heading home from a glorious birthday weekend with my best friend in Virginia. It was great. I wouldn’t have changed anything! I am so thankful for the ability to travel on my my own. I remember two years ago when I tried to navigate a trip around Thanksgiving time and how absolutely overwhelming it was. Thank you Lord for how far I have come. The flight attendants are all wearing pink for breast cancer awareness month. Most people could tell you why the flight

October

2018

05

I am 21 years old and I come from Croatia. I had a pretty normal, average teenager life until January 16th. That is when I had my first stroke, when I was just 18 years old, and when I first heard of and encountered arteriovenous malformation/AVM (a tangle of abnormal blood vessels connecting arteries and veins in the brain). My AVM was the size 4 times 5 centimeters. Quite big! They couldn’t close it all at once because it was too risky, so they postponed the “closing” surgery a few months

October

2018

03

Well, before the stroke, I wasn’t eating right and I was drinking - a lot. I guess it’s safe to say that I had an alcohol problem. The stroke happened on Christmas Day 2017. We were at a drive in, my wife and two kids. I felt fine. We watched Star Wars and went to a late night restaurant, it was after eating that I started feeling weird. I started feeling dizzy and tired. I threw up on the way to the car. My wife asked if I wanted to go to the ER and I said no. By the time we got home, my head

October

2018

03

Something to note about my story is that I was an otherwise healthy 32 year old at the time. I lived in Newport News and was commuting to Norfolk for work every day. I also had traveled to 3 different states by plane and had driven to and from Northern VA. From the time I felt the pop in my neck, to the time I was told to get to the ER, it was 22 days. On that 22nd day, I was told that I had been having a series of strokes. Not one, but multiple. Not TIAs, but strokes!  I obviously had missed

October

2018

03

So MANY people think they are entitled the Miracles. My generation is mistaken (I'm 34).    What steps do you have to take to boldly state that you are entitled to miracles?? Well for me, I believe the first decision I made to grant me the title of entitlement was getting baptized on December 23rd, 2016 after a suicide attempt. I was very close to death; I should've died. God decided that I needed to add a few more miracles to my life. 2017 was a disaster. I won't go into details. I know more

October

2018