My Life and Calling as a Nurse
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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10 Posts
HEMOPHILIA: “A ROYAL DISEASE”
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…
STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME
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…
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR V.S. LEUKEMIA
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…
LUPUS: “THE WOLF”
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…
EISENHOWER’S BATTLE WITH CROHN’S DISEASE
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,…
MUHAMMAD ALI’S FIGHT WITH PARKINSON’S
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…
ONE MAN’S PROMISE TO ST. JUDE
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,…
CONDUCTOR RECOVERS FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS
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…
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CNAs
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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