Something's weird, something's off, but I never thought of what it could be, right? Like you never think that would happen to you.

In the fall of 2019, Christina Costa knew something was off with her body.

She just wasn't sure what.

I started getting migraines and my dad has migraines he

got him since he was a kid my sister has migrain so I know there's a genetic

link to migrain so I sort of just didn't really think much of it.

Christina was a 27 year old graduate student at the University of Michigan.

She kept going to class and living life as usual.

But the pain in her head persisted. I was walking out of the

classroom and it was just like everything is blurry right now. This is weird. This

feels more than just a migraine. When Christina visited her campus clinic,

they suggested she take some Tylenol.

She tried that, but it didn't help.

So I would get like left-side numbness in my hand, very, very strong aura, sometimes nausea.

Christina went to see a neurologist and got an MRI of her brain.

Then I get home, I watch Netflix as all of us do, and I get a call and I let it go to the voicemail and I think that could be important.

I was with my husband and I get a voicemail that says please come to the

emergency department found something in the MRI and I I fell to the floor.

It was surreal.

It was something I just I never expected it.

So I go to the emerging department there's I never expected it.

So I go to the emerging department, there's a PA there, a nurse there, and they bring up the picture, which I see for the first time,

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