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Can be a clue that an aneurysm has ruptured in the brain. if you take a look at these pictures and start looking at those blood vessels in red at the very bottom of the brain, focus in on that area there, that's a blood blister at the bottom of the brain, the problem, as you might guess, is that the. it can spray blood throughout the brain. that's called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, joe, exactly what you were talking about. what's interesting, they haven't been able to figure out exactly where that aneurysm is. they've done a few tests, they'll probably have to do a few more and try to fix it so...

They're big numbers and add up quickly and your insurance doesn't always cover everything. randi kaye has one family's story. >> reporter: terence foley embraced life. he spoke six languages, even taught himself arabic. he played more than 16 musical instrumented and earned his phd in his 60s. so when terence was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2000, he was determined to beat it. his wife, amanda bennett, says they never gave much thought to how much it would cost. they had health care coverage. that first operation to remove his kidney you say cost about $25,000. this was just the beginning. ...

Sort of symptoms might michaels have had? >> the thing that really struck me, joe, about hearing about bret michaels, he described this sort of feeling of a baseball bat in the back of his head. and we refer to that, joe, as a thunderclap headache. the reason that's so significant is because a lot of times, it can be a clue that an aneurysm has ruptured in the brain. if you take a look at these pictures and start looking at those blood vessels in red at the very bottom of the brain, focus in on that area there, that's a blood blister at the bottom of the brain, the problem, as you might guess,...

The brain. that's called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, joe, exactly what you were talking about. what's interesting, they haven't been able to figure out exactly where that aneurysm is. they've done a few tests. they'll probably have to do a few more and try to fix it so that aneurysm doesn't happen again. >> okay. so blood pooling in the brain, how you relieve that pressure? >> you know, it's interesting, a lot of times if blood sort of pools in one area, you can go in there and remove that blood. but with this type of thing, joe, the way that was spraying through the brain, it's more like a spo...

Thing. fully three quarters of people who live to age 65 will develop cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, dementia or are going to have a stroke in their last year of life. and all of that is costly. let's show you how some of those numbers break down. the estimated lifetime cost of treating a stroke, for example, in a senior, $100,000. for heart disease, conservative price tag, around $121,000 over 20 years. that's without surgery. and if you need surgery, many people do, costs can run more than $4 million. for prostate cancer treatment, the cost is around $41,000. and the average co...