“General Hospital” star Kirsten Storms is preparing to undergo brain surgery.

Storms, 41, who has played Maxie Jones on the soap opera since 2005, opened up about her recent medical crisis on Tuesday, Oct. 14.

In a lengthy Instagram statement , Storms revealed that doctors found “an aneurysm on the right side of [her] brain” during a January scan.

“I had a procedure done that weekend … [but] because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical) it wasn’t coiled that weekend,” she wrote.

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Storms is now preparing to undergo a coiling, a minimally invasive procedure used to treat brain aneurysms, in the next couple of weeks. A brain aneurysm is a bugle in a blood vessel

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