In 1988, US President Joe Biden suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm, necessitating last rites from a priest. Later that year, he faced a second aneurysm.

In February 1988, a life-threatening aneurysm that had been mistakenly classified as a pinched nerve struck Joe Biden, now 81 years old. Doctors found a worrisome distortion of a blood artery after the patient had to take up to ten Tylenol a day to get some pain relief. That vessel would have most likely been fatal if it had burst.

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