Joy Nicklaus

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — 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."

Casciano is running to raise awareness and contribute to the mission of the Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) of supporting, educating and advo

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