Hi I'm Ann, Joeswife at YWBB. It will be one year as of this Friday that I lost my husband Joe. We had been together 19years and two weeks shy of our 15 year anniversary. It was late at night and he had a terrible headache. He fell and couldn't get up and by the time the ambulance arrived (we live far out) he was barely breathing. He had what they later determined was a AVM ( similar to a stroke or aneurysm). They didn't think he would respond after the first surgery but he did and was able to move his eyes and his toes. We were told he would need a long recovery but he would make it. But he started bleeding again. Another surgery and he woke again but with less movement. His brain kept swelling and they felt he needed a third. That one left him only able to open his eyes and they said he was getting worse. His brain just kept swelling. 11 days from the first event the decision was made to let him go. Our children were 8 and 11 at the time. He was and is the love of my life, my soulmate.