City: Garner

Brain Injury: Two weeks after giving birth to my twins, I had a massive stroke related to my pregnancy. 

Explanation of Mask: I lay helpless on my bedroom floor, and I remember hearing my boys crying and my husband calling my name.  I tried to talk, but couldn’t get the words out.  I was told months after, that I had a stroke and two blood clots on the right side of my brain.  I couldn’t talk, walk, feed myself, or see out of my left eye.  My doctors called me a miracle.  The mask represents the pain I felt inside my head, and the tears I shed from the intense pain.  I am very lucky to be alive.