The Messy, Honest Story of Coming Back to Myself After a Ruptured Brain Aneurysm
The memoir Erin searched for during the hardest years of her life — and couldn't find. So she wrote it.
Releasing September 2026 — join the list for first notice.
About the Book
At age 27, on May 29, 2019, Erin Dohan survived a ruptured brain aneurysm. Eight hours of surgery. Three weeks in the hospital. Then, discharge — and the assumption that the hard part was over.
It wasn't. The five years that followed brought a relentless accumulation of medical crises: miscarriage, emergency abortion, infertility, complicated pregnancy, postpartum complications, ovarian torsion, and ultimately the removal of both ovaries. And woven through every crisis was a medical system that consistently dismissed, minimized, or failed to believe her.
I Think I'm Ready to Talk is a raw and unfiltered exploration of recovery, identity, and what it means to rediscover yourself when your body has been the source of the trauma. Written with honesty, dark humor, and deep compassion, it navigates the gap between what survival looks like from the outside and what it actually feels like on the inside.
This is the book for every woman who has suffered through the medical system and been told to be grateful she survived. For every person in the long middle — past the crisis, not yet whole. For anyone who needed this story to already exist.
I didn't write this book to be brave. I wrote it because I ran out of ways to not write it.
Coming September 2026
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