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Article Title

No Words

Authors

Elizabeth Dodds

Keywords

Mormon studies, personal essay, brain aneurysm

Abstract

After all these years, I’m still afraid of getting a brain aneurysm. Just a few weeks ago in church, my head started hurting, and I reached up and felt a vein throbbing on the side of my skull. I leaned over to my uncle sitting beside me and whispered, “What if it’s a brain aneurysm?” He laughed and said it wasn’t. “But how can you be sure?” I thought. Because I looked up brain aneurysms a long time ago and found out that they have no symptoms. No warnings before they hit you like an air bag. Wham. Suddenly, there’s an artery bursting in your brain and you’re bleeding to death inside your own mind.

Recommended Citation

Dodds, Elizabeth (2017) "No Words," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 56: Iss. 1, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss1/12