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10 Posts
Oct 2, 2019October 2, 2019

My Life and Calling as a Nurse

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By Wanda Patrick, LPN I’ve been a nurse for more than forty years, and I can honestly say that I’m blessed to have found the true calling on my life…

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Mar 1, 2019

HEMOPHILIA: “A ROYAL DISEASE”

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HEMOPHILIA is a rare blood disorder in which the patient’s blood does not clot normally because it lacks sufficient blood-clotting factors. An inherited disease, it is usually passed from mother…

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Feb 28, 2019

STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME

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When Laura was thirty years old, she began having episodes of muscle stiffness in the trunk of her body and in her limbs. During these episodes, she would also have…

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Feb 12, 2019February 12, 2019

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR V.S. LEUKEMIA

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  Born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. in New York on April 16, 1947, this 12 lb. 11 oz. baby grew up to be a 7 ft. 2 in. professional basketball…

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Feb 7, 2019February 7, 2019

LUPUS: “THE WOLF”

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Forty years ago, a teacher at a Catholic elementary school invited the faculty members and their husbands and wives to a Christmas party in her home.  It was an opportunity…

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Jan 21, 2019

EISENHOWER’S BATTLE WITH CROHN’S DISEASE

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Born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, Dwight David Eisenhower was raised in Kansas.  He graduated from West Point in 1915 and began his military career. During World War II,…

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Dec 18, 2018December 18, 2018

MUHAMMAD ALI’S FIGHT WITH PARKINSON’S

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In 1964, a twenty-two-year-old boxer known by his birth name, Cassius Clay, Jr. entered the ring for a match with Sonny Liston, who had been the world heavyweight boxing champion…

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Dec 5, 2018

ONE MAN’S PROMISE TO ST. JUDE

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Born January 6, 1912 in Deerfield, Michigan, Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz was the son of Maronite Catholic immigrants from Lebanon. One of ten children, he was raised in Toledo, Ohio,…

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Nov 28, 2018November 28, 2018

CONDUCTOR RECOVERS FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS

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On May 16, 2017, Michael Case was working as a conductor on an Amtrak train pulling into the station in Naperville, Illinois. Aboard the train was Edward Klein, 79, who…

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Nov 7, 2018November 6, 2018

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CNAs

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Fifty years ago, subdivisions were sprouting in the cornfields and bean fields in Illinois. The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time of rapid growth in the housing stock at the…

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