Just ran across this LA Times review of a musical about a songwriter with an AVM.
“Arteriovenous malformation” is the actual diagnosis that eventually greets frazzled Gordon Schwinn (Ryan Wagner), a songwriter for children’s television whose tyrannical producer-star (Jesse Bradley) plays a frog. Gordon’s deadline panic turns to graver matters when he collapses during dinner with agent Rhoda (Courtney Walton). At the hospital, Gordon, Rhoda and his lovingly crazy-making mom (Aimee Karlin) grapple with the medical team while awaiting Roger (Jeffrey Aiken), Gordon’s lover…"
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-stage6-2008jun06,0,1097029.story