By all standards  57-year-old Linda Inglett was living a wonderful life.  The wife, mother, and grandmother was enjoying retirement after a successful career in television advertising.  She cherished time with her grandchildren, watching them grow, and planning for their future.
It was the kind of life she had always dreamed of. The apples of her eye her Colby and Kyle.
"I need to be here to see the two little boys I have grow up, " Linda says.  But a year ago her life would forever change.  An unexpected diagnosis brought news that would shatter her dreams for the future. Linda went to a specialist when she was having trouble with her vocal cords, but an MRI and MRA revealed She had a life threating  aneurysm in the middle of her brain that could have killed her.
"We were actually looking at the vessels in her vein. That's what the scans were all about.  It's just that we didn't find what we were expecting to find.  We found something different…an aneurysm," ENT Physician Dr. Fred Daniel  says.

Knowing the condition could get worst over time and become fatal Dr. Daniel immediately  referred her to a neurologist  for treatment. The two would lose contact until she recently paid him a visit at his office to tell him the story of her ordeal.  But the road to this reunion was not an easy one for Linda. 'When I got diagnosed it was like I'm gonna die."   

Fast forward… a year later  WSAV went with Linda for a follow up Cerebral Angiogram with Neurosurgeon Dr. Jay Howington.  He performed the cutting edge surgery at Saint Joseph's/Candler hospital that saved her life.  It's called Endovascular Emobolization.
"Treating her with surgery would have been a tour de force,” says Dr. Howington.  “And it may have left her debilitated in a nursing home just the surgery itself because it's a very deep invasive brain surgery.  This is invasive too , but it's so much easier to do it this way than putting someone through surgery. So for her I would certainly say it's a miracle.”
"He was just an angel a savior.  When he told us he could go up into my brain and look and see what size it was, and he could put some coils and some stents in it. 

In the medical world the procedure is not new , but Dr. Howington says it has evolved into an optimal treatment for patients like Linda.  "The tools we use now to take care of the aneurysms compared to what we had 15, 16 years ago…I mean it's like a whole different ball game now.  The catheters we use, the wires we use, the coil shapes, the stents like we used in her case.  Even the stent which was the first stent used for aneurysms its been replaced.  The new stents out there now makes those relatively obsolete. "
"If I could get on top of the mountain and just scream to everybody and just say get checked we've got something now that can fix this,” says Linda .

Linda has had two cerebral angiograms since her brain aneurysm surgery. Her next checkup is in a year.   Dr. Howington says at that time if there's no further aneurysm seen he will consider her cured.