It's about "c"

Chris was 16 and finishing up his junior year of high school at Archbishop Molloy in Queens, NY. A varsity soccer player, looking forward to getting his driver's license and spending his summer in Mattituck on the North Fork of Long Island as a first mate on a fishing charter boat. 

On May 7, 2022, he took his SATs for the first time and in the afternoon, on a soccer field in the Bronx, Chris experienced double vision and a tingling sensation on the left side of his body. He walked off the field and googled his symptoms. He said "Dad, this is vascular. You need to take me to the hospital." Chris collapsed on the way to the hospital, was intubated and sedated. Chris suffered a brain hemorrhage from an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM, he didn't know he had. This tangle of blood vessels was in his brainstem. For 32 days in the ICU, months of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, stereotactic radiosurgery (gamma knife) and two eye surgeries, he fought for the life he knew and loved. He made it back to the sea and he appreciates life in a way that only tragedy can. 

His passion is for everyone to cLIFE for the gift it is and live fully every day.