[Text on screen
Olivia's Story]
Olivia:
I went to work and I had — um — I was talking to one of my coworkers. I developed a really bad headache, excruciating headache, and then I went to the bathroom and I passed out and I was rushed by ambulance to our local hospital and then life-flighted to OSU.

Kris, Olivia's mother:
We realized that she had a massive bleed. And at the time, the doctor said that she only had a 10% chance to survive, and we wanted the best care for Olivia. So my brother-in-law suggested we contact Ohio State. And she was life-flighted within 22 minutes to Ohio State. And it really, it saved her life. It was the worst day of our lives, but yet on our way to the hospital, I got a personal phone call from Dr. Powers and he told me that he was already taking care of Olivia. And right then we knew that she was in excellent hands,

Ciaran Powers, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon at Ohio State:
Really sounded like you were, you were trying to die. It was really a pretty scary. Time is of the essence when you've got brain stem compression. And the OR we have at OSU is unique in central Ohio that we can do both the embolization procedures and the open surgeries.

Kris, Olivia's mother:
And it's nice knowing upfront exactly what is gonna happen, from the person who — when we arrived at Ohio State — from the parking attendant that rushed us in <laugh> to the people in the ICU making sure that we had everything that we possibly needed to Dr. Powers coming out and talking to other families in the ICU, and I'm sure he saw that look on our faces, like, is this news for us? And he would always take the time to come over, and he never gave us false hope, but he, I always ask him to tell me something positive every day. And so he would always give me one thing positive every day so I could, you know, I could keep going. They never dropped the ball. They just, we knew Livy was, she had the best care every single minute of the day that she was there.

Olivia:
The, uh, recovery at Dodd Hall, the therapist did a wonderful job at getting me ready. And they were pushing me really hard.

Kris, Olivia's mother:
At Dodd Hall, I don't think anyone thinks that they're there to do a job. They're really there for the patients. When we were ready to take Olivia home, it was a lot of responsibility. I felt like I was her nurse, her mom, her just her care keeper, and they made it possible for us to feel comfortable going home. We were able to stay all night in an apartment at Dodd Hall, and I was able to take care of all of her needs. And so when we went home, it made it a lot easier. We felt a lot more confident taking home a disabled adult because we weren't used to that. 

Olivia:
Twenty-year-olds don't have strokes. That's what I thought. Like I'm young, I don't have a stroke. Like young people don't have strokes. I saw it was a really bad headache. That's what I thought it was. Dr. Powers was really good. He was the — I could say he's Superman. He's Superman to me. Thank you, by the way. I think you're awesome and you're really smart and you're great. And I just would give you everything in the world. I'm gonna cry now. 

Dr. Powers:
If you have to cry, it's OK.

Olivia:
You saved my life and you gave me my life back. So I appreciate that. I appreciate everything you do.