Joyce Hess is performing in the show HALF TIME - Gotta Dance at Theater in the Park. But if not for her quick actions a few weeks ago, that may not have been possible.

KSHB talked to Hess and Dr. Coleman Martin, neurologist at Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, about how her prompt actions following the symptoms of a brain aneurysm may have saved her life.

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