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<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\nThe soap opera star shared that she\u2019s set to undergo a procedure in two weeks as her brain is \u201csorta lowkey rebelling against me\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
General Hospital<\/em> star Kirsten Storms will undergo surgery for an aneurysm, saying that \u201cmy brain seems to be sorta lowkey rebelling against me\u201d amid ongoing health struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storms, 41, shared an Instagram post on Oct. 14 that while undergoing a follow-up scan for the cyst she had removed from her brain in 2021, her neurosurgeon discovered an aneurysm on the right side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She shared that in January, she had a procedure done \u201cwhere the doctor [threaded] a camera from my leg up to my brain.\u201d As she explained, \u201c(It\u2019s a routine procedure, but the path inside your body that they lead the camera through is *insane*\u2026 THE CAMERA GOES THROUGH YOUR ARMPIT, guys. Your. Armpit.) Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn\u2019t coiled that weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coiling is a procedure used to block blood flow to the aneurysm, which is a weakened or bulging artery wall, John Hopkins Medicine explains. If an aneurysm bursts, it can cause brain damage or be fatal, but blocking the blood flow with the coil \u2014 which may be thinner than a human hair \u2014 can keep it from rupturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since \u201cneurology stuff makes me feel a bit of nervousness,\u201d Storms wrote that she\u2019s biding her time with her best friend Emme Rylan (who played her onscreen BFF Lulu), \u201ccrocheting the most beautiful sweaters, while my coiling procedure is being scheduled for sometime in the next 2 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storms, who took a leave of absence from her long-running role as Maxie on ABC hit this summer to move from L.A. to Nashville with her daughter Harper, 11, shared that her diagnosis was a contributing factor to the move: \u201cAneurysms (obviously) can be caused by stress \u2026 and since the January scan showed a new, but very small, squatter (aka cyst) on my brain stem \u2014 it was clear I needed to change some things in my life asap. For my own personal reasons, no longer living in Los Angeles was very important to me. The biggest reason for the move was Harper, but a lot of it was for my physical and mental health. And my overall happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And as the Zenon<\/em> alum explained in her post, she had two reasons for disclosing her latest health struggle: \u201cI wanted to post this because even though my brain seems to be sorta lowkey rebelling against me, it does allow me to understand that we\u2019ve all got times when things aren\u2019t great. If we can, we will do our best to do what is best for ourselves and loved ones. Since I knew what an aneurysm was, the scan in January majorly freaked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also shared that she felt compelled to clear up some falsehoods about her hospital visits: \u201cA few days after I was discharged from the hospital, someone created a blog post that said I was in the hospital that weekend because I tried to \u2018unalive\u2019 myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storms continued: \u201cI couldn\u2019t understand why a person would makeup something that terrible, when they had no idea why I was really there. There are a few really bad apples out there. We all know that\u2026but there are people in my life who I am truly thankful to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne of those individuals just made a sh*t load of sweaters with me,\u201d she wrote referencing Rylan. \u201cThey are glorious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The soap opera star shared that she\u2019s set to undergo a procedure in two weeks as her brain is \u201csorta lowkey rebelling against me\u201d General Hospital star Kirsten Storms will undergo surgery for … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kirsten](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kirsten-Storms-e1622936460272.jpeg?crop=0px%2C35px%2C2252px%2C1274px&resize=800%2C450&quality=70&strip=all\")
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