(WPTV) – A Delray Beach resident is planning to run in this year’s TCS New York City Marathon on Nov. 2 to raise awareness for brain injury.
The cause is dear to Alexa Casciano, who underwent emergency brain and double lung surgery at the age of 16 to remove a cranial abscess caused by Lemierre’s Syndrome— a life-threatening bacterial infection.
“I was in the ICU for 28 days. When I was laying in that hospital bed, I had wished I had some type of inspiration, someone that I could look up to,” Casciano told WPTV, “and I wanted to be that person and really give back in hopes that maybe they can someday.” CONTINUE