Bravely Bleeding

In the winter of 1999, at age twenty-two, registered nurse Kris Corbett's life changed forever when she grasped a bottle of orange juice and watched it fall from her suddenly weak left hand. What began as numbness in her lips and fingers led to a devastating diagnosis: a cerebral cavernous angioma. This raspberry-like tangle of blood vessels deep in her brain had begun to bleed.

Bravely Bleeding offers a powerful dual perspective that follows Corbett's journey from nurse to patient, from caregiver to the one needing care.

Moving between her ongoing medical crisis and the childhood experiences that shaped her, Kris explores how her medical know-how, determination, and empathy prepared her to face the unimaginable.

Balancing clinical precision with raw lyricism, Corbett highlights that healing isn't just about medical recovery—but the deeper work of finding meaning in suffering and discovering that sometimes, our greatest wounds can become our greatest sources of strength.