The horrifying situation is the result of a rare illness. In 2017, Jake Haendel was doing well. He was an executive chef and was newly married. Around Memorial Day of that year, his voice began to ...

Great ideas sometimes come to people in the shower or while stuck in traffic. For Jake Haendel, lightning struck when he was accidentally locked in a bathroom stall at a nightclub near North Station.

Of that conversation, Jake said, "I'm like, 'I appreciate that. But, no.'" Haendel didn't die that night, or the next, or the one after that. Instead, his brain somehow sputtered back to life.

Jake Haendel survived a rare and terminal progressive brain disease that left him unable to move or speak - but still completely conscious. In 2017, when Haendel was 28, he was newly married and ...

Enduring chronic pain and constant boredom, 27-year-old Jake Haendel found himself praying for his life to end, until he heard medical staff planning to turn off his life support. Brain disease ...

IF I WAS A MANUAL CHAIR, I WOULDN’T GET UP AT JAKE’S ARRIVAL AT HIS DESTINATION. INTRODUCES ANOTHER UNIVERSE OF UNKNOWNS RANGING FROM ENTRANCE ACCESS. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE MAIN ENTRANCE HAS A ...

“It was like being a prisoner in solitary confinement, but worse,” Jake Haendel tells PEOPLE Abbott issues executive order to arrest CCP operatives in Texas Explained: Why Private Jets ...

What seems like such a simple task was huge for 28-year-old Jake Haendel: He had been bedridden and unable to move for months. What was more, no one knew he was conscious and aware of what was ...

The horrifying situation is the result of a rare illness. In 2017, Jake Haendel was doing well. He was an executive chef and was newly married. Around Memorial Day of that year, his voice began to ...