KCTV: Boy saves mother's life after suffering brain aneurysm

A mother adopts two children but didn’t know she would soon call one of those boys her special hero. The quick thinking of her new son helped save her life after suffering an aneurysm on the first day of school last August.

Dr. Coleman Martin, interventional neurologist at Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, said, “Frankly, she just got incredibly lucky that we could treat the aneurysm before it caused massive bleeding."

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