Welcome to Start TODAY. Sign up for our Start TODAY newsletter to receive daily inspiration sent to your inbox — and join us on Instagram! One day in March 2023, Kyle McMorrow of Brooklyn woke up at 5 a.m. with the worst neck pain he’s ever had. “I thought I had slept on it wrong. I tried to massage it out with a massage gun, but nothing worked,” he tells TODAY.com. He was 37 years old, healthy and active — he worked out in a gym, played basketball, biked outdoors, ran and hiked.
” The healthcare team gave him steroids to help his body reabsorb the blood. He was in the intensive care unit for ten days, in a regular hospital room for two days, and then moved to in-hospital rehabilitation for about four weeks. Over that time, MRI scans monitored the amount of blood in the area of the malformation. At first, McMorrow couldn’t even stand. It was difficult for him to do anything. He had to relearn how to walk, go up stairs and get in and out of the shower.