Erin Dohan
When a brain aneurysm nearly killed her at twenty-seven, Erin thought the worst was behind her. What followed were five years of relentless medical battles — and eventually, the courage to speak the truth out loud.
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Erin Dohan is an accounting controller, writer, wife, and mother based in the western suburbs of Chicago. At 27, she survived a ruptured brain aneurysm — an event that fundamentally transformed her life. What followed were five years of relentless medical battles.
Her debut memoir, I Think I'm Ready to Talk, is a raw, honest account of surviving not just illness — but the silence and shame that surrounds women's health.
Full Biography →Silence has weight. When we don't talk about these experiences, we internalize them. We assume our fear is excessive, our anger inappropriate, our exhaustion a personal failure.
— Erin Dohan, I Think I'm Ready to Talk The Messy, Honest Story of Coming Back to Myself After a Ruptured Brain Aneurysm
A brain aneurysm. Miscarriage. Emergency abortion. Infertility. Complicated pregnancy, postpartum, ovarian torsion, the loss of both ovaries. And through it all — silence.
I Think I'm Ready to Talk is the book Erin Dohan needed to exist. It's for every woman who has suffered through the medical system and been told to be grateful she survived.
On leaving, on the book, and on what those five years were actually about.
Personal EssayOn the summer I spent apologizing for being sick, and what I still haven't thrown away.
Personal EssayOne of the quieter losses that comes with long, unresolved health issues isn't physical. It's relational. No one really warns you about this part.
Erin is open to hearing about your story, talking brain aneurysm and women's health awareness, or discussing the book.
