I woke up on April 25th excited for the weekend. My son Ryan had a baseball game that morning that I was coaching. After returning from the game we were relaxing at the house trying to figure out what we were going to do the rest of the weekend. Little did we know that and the next 44 days of our lives had already been determined. 

I received the call from my Dad a little after 10am that my Mom had fallen in the shower and was headed to the hospital. My initial reaction was that she had hit her head in the shower was going to fine. I told my Dad to call me as soon as he knew more so I could figure out if I need to come to the hospital which was 3.5 hours away. After not hearing anything for about 30-45 minutes I called my Dad again at which point he informed me she had blood around her brain and was being transfered to Halifax in Daytona Florida. I immediately packed up the family and headed towards the hospital still not knowing the servity of the situation.

By the time we arrived at the hospital we had received the news that she had a brain aneurysm. Unsure exactly what that was my wife immediately got on her phone to find some information. It didn't take long for us to start realizing how serious this was.

By the time we arrived at the hospital they had my Mom settled in Nuero intensive care and had her in a medically induced coma. My initial reaction was shock. After speaking with doctors and having a plan in place we had high hopes that she was going to be ok. Saturday night around 10pm hey drilled a hole in her head on the front right side to relive the pressure and drain any blood and fluids she had in her brain. They scheduled the coiling procedure for 10am Sunday morning. They allowed my father and I both to stya with her the first night considering the situation. We spent the nMy father and I stayed with her the first night at theight litstening to alrams going off and nurses and doctors ina nd out of the room constantly as they monitored her very closely. 

Day 2: As 10 am approached family memebrs started to arrive at the hospital. The docotrs explained they were going to go up thru her leg to get to the anuerysm and deploy platinum wires that would keep blood from getting back into the anuerysm and ultimiatly beeding agian. The doctor was very confident the procudure was going to be sucessfull considering my Mom only being 59 and in overall good physical condition. He actually told us 80% success rate. We were updated a couple hours into the procedure that everything was going good and they were getting close to deploying the coils. We all took a sigh of relief and started to celbrate a little bit. 20 minutes later one of her doctors rushed into the room and informed us the anuerysm moved and reruptured and they were going to have to do emergency surgery and remove the front half of her skull to try and save her life. They gave her a 5% chance to survive at that point. They moved us to another waiting room we we waited what seemed forever preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. 

Hi everyone, As many of you know, I am raising awareness and funds for The Brain Aneurysm Foundation, and I have set up a Memorial Page for Eileen Marie Holub. I'd like to be able to count on you to make a donation to the organization so that I can help them fulfill their mission. Giving is easy! Please click Donate Now on my page. You can read more about what we do here as well as make a secure donation online.

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