By Dawn Bonker, Chapman Magazine January 25, 2019 Chapman University alumna Michelle Wulfestieg has told the story of her near death many times, but tears still spring to her eyes when she recounts that winter night in 2008. She had just left a print shop with her completed master’s thesis in hand, when she suffered a [...]
By Lori Basheda, Times OC/Daily Pilot November 29, 2018 Where to begin the story of Michelle Wulfestieg? With her stroke at age 11? The one that paralyzed her right arm and leg. Or with her stroke at age 25? The one that took her whole body to the brink of death. Or perhaps the story [...]
By Brandi Neal, Coast magazine May 1, 2018 Michelle Wulfestieg, 37, knows a thing or two about second chances. At age 11 she suffered a stroke and was diagnosed with an inoperable brain lesion. By the time she was 14, doctors told her she was unlikely to live to see her 30th birthday. “So at that moment I was really faced [...]
