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Imagine for a moment that you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. After months – or even years – of treatments, fighting, then healing, and the avalanche of emotions and physical and mental setbacks that ebb and flow, you are officially declared cancer free. That irreplaceable freeing feeling washes away much of the looming uneasiness, […]
Front row: Tim Reader, Hollie Potter, EMS Director Doug Warren, Justin Wolfe, Amanda Reeves, Deputy Director Wendy Lee, Kenny Childs, and County Council Member Harriet Holman. Back row: County Council Members Jay Byars, Bill Hearn and David Chinnis, Council Chair George Bailey and Council Member Eddie Crosby. Nothing demonstrates success better than being officially nominated […]
Many parents know the agony – and challenge – of a son or daughter waking up in the middle of the night and complaining that an ear hurts. That was a regular occurrence for my wife and I as our middle daughter, crying and unable to sleep, wrestled with repeated ear infections. Numerous doctor visits […]
They may not be doctors. They may not be nurses. They might not stitch you up or provide you with medication, but these non-medical staff members at our local hospitals provide behind-the-scenes support so vital that our hospitals couldn’t function without it. Let’s not forget how important these staff members are to the day-to-day operations […]
No miscarriage is easy, but the doctor can make the difference between acceptance and devastation. For Jen Kulick, owner of the Tattooed Moose, her first miscarriage, when she was about 10 weeks pregnant, was the worst. “She literally made me sit in the waiting room with all the pregnant moms for more than an hour,” […]
To say Sara Campbell was having a day from hell is a gross understatement. She and her husband, Matt, had spent the last eight hours driving from Summerville to his parents’ home in Washington D.C., to gather with his family upon his mother’s passing. “We’d been there less than two hours when my phone rang. […]