Kirsten Storms is again on Normal Hospital following her six-month go away of absence.
Storms, 41, appeared on the Thursday, February 12, episode of the long-running cleaning soap, the place her character, Maxie Jones, wakened from her coma.
“James Malcolm West, you aren’t going skating with no helmet,” Maxie mentionedaddressing her son’s hopes to hit the ice rink after leaving her bedside.
Storms introduced in July 2025 that she was taking a go away of absence from Normal Hospital. Amid the actress’ hiatus, she underwent mind surgical procedure.
Cleaning soap star Kirsten Storms has provided a serious well being replace after stepping again from her Normal Hospital position. “I’ve acquired loads of social media assist on this topic, so I wish to give an replace on my medical scenario. My final appointment was with a brand new Neurosurgeon in St Louis. He informed me that (…)
“In January (2025), I had a brand new scan achieved of my mind,” she wrote through Instagram in October 2025. “After my surgical procedure in 2021, my wonderful neurosurgeon … has been monitoring the cyst that he left on my mind, when he eliminated one which was inflicting me issues.”
Final 12 months, Storms’ docs found an aneurysm on the proper aspect of her mind.
“I had a process achieved that weekend, the place the physician (threaded) a digital camera from my leg as much as my mind,” she recalled. “Aneurysms, clearly, could be brought about (by) stress. Mind cysts? I consider that’s attainable too.”
Storms added, “It was clear I wanted (to) change some issues in my life ASAP. For my private causes, not dwelling in Los Angeles was crucial to me. The most important purpose for the transfer was Harper, however loads of it was for my bodily and psychological well being, and my total happiness.”
Storms, who shares 11-year-old daughter Harper with ex-husband Brandon Barashsettled in Nashville amid her Normal Hospital break. She provided a well being replace in December 2025.
Bradford Anderson and Kirsten Storms on ‘Normal Hospital.’
Disney/Bahareh Ritter“I hope everyone seems to be having fun with the winter break with their household and family members,” she wrote through Instagram late final 12 months. “My final appointment was with a brand new neurosurgeon in St Louis. He informed me that I’m within the ‘grey zone’ for the aneurysm process. It’s not tremendous small, but it surely’s not on the obligatory surgical procedure measurement. Mainly, I can preserve monitoring it — or have the coiling achieved, BUT he informed me I wasn’t in fast/‘OMG! it’s going to burst tomorrow!’ type of hazard. Obvi, nice information.”
Based on Storms, she was making an attempt to be “comfy” with the idea of “wait and see” if her aneurysm will get worse to bear surgical procedure.
Kirsten Storms rose to fame as Disney Channel’s Zenon within the ‘90s, however her time on Normal Hospital has cemented her as a cleaning soap star. Storms started taking part in Maxie Jones on the beloved cleaning soap opera in Could 2005. Her casting adopted a sequence of kid actors and Robyn Richards, who portrayed the character from 1993 (…)
“I do know that I’m not desirous to hop proper on the working desk,” the GH vet, who beforehand had a craniotomy in 2021, defined. “As I sit on this ‘grey zone,’ pondering my plan, I need you guys to know that I actually do admire the messages and tales provided of your personal experiences. I wanted these … and I had no concept (bizarre how that works, proper?).”
Storms concluded her put up with a teaser that followers may “be seeing (her) again in Port Charles quickly.”
Storms has starred as Maxie on and off since 2005.
“It’s been a loopy experience,” Storms informed TV Insider in Could 2025. “It was the primary time I ever performed a foul lady for an prolonged time period, and it was a problem.”