In Every Issue: A Unique Case
Jackie Hyman had been suffering from symptoms such as fatigue and blood in her sinuses for a while – symptoms due, she figured, to a respiratory infection. Then one day, her sister exclaimed that she “looked like she’d been hit by a Mack truck,” an utterance alarming enough to prompt Hyman to call a doctor. … Read more
Brock Borton was just a regular 16-year-old kid at the beginning of February 2023. The Hanahan High School junior lived and breathed baseball and was a healthy, active student. One morning that month, Borton woke up before school feeling terrible, and felt even worse over the course of a week. It was when his left … Read more
“When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.” This popular advice, circa the 1940s, was intended to encourage doctors to diagnose common causes, rather than spending limited time and resources chasing down the possibility of rare diseases, according to the National Library of Medicine. But zebras are not mythical creatures, and sometimes those hoofbeats … Read more
In summer 2018, Tommy Douglas went on a camping trip with his friends and enjoyed fishing and swimming in Lake Marion. He swam with an open cut, which opened an unimaginable nightmare. “I woke up Sunday morning and my arms were swollen, felt like it would explode,” Douglas told WCBD-TV. “They had to emergency surgery and … Read more
“I don’t know how people who don’t have faith get from one day to the next. Whether I’m healed in this life or the next, I must live with hope. I have to live expecting that my life still has good and that it matters.” Donna Carole Kitchens, mother and grandmother, or Bibi as she … Read more
Birthdays for Columbia resident Keith Lauer are all about the gifts: the gift of life he received from a South Carolina woman who anonymously donated her liver to him in November 2018 and the gifts he continues to give back in her honor. Lauer was two months away from hospice care when he was diagnosed … Read more