Tag: Family and Friends
Super wheelchair for Rockport man made possible by community
WEST ROCKPORT — The family of Derek O’Brien reports that a fund-raiser held in April produced enough money to allow them to order a...
Neurostimulation Comes of Age
Millions of people worldwide live active lives, thanks to implanted pacemakers that deliver electrical impulses to restore normal function to the heart. Now, electrical...
GH mother learning all over with son
Grand Haven resident Kim Talaga's Mother's Day present won't come with a bow and ribbon this year.
The gift arrived almost daily over the last...
Stockbridge grad overcomes accidents to graduate from UM
It was May 24, 1998, a week before Jaffer Odeh was to graduate from Stockbridge High School. He was driving home from Jackson after...
Paralyzed man lashes out at Pacman
DENVER (AP) - Tommy Urbanski fidgets in his electronic wheelchair, trying to find a comfortable position.
No luck. The pain just shifts.
Urbanski, paralyzed from an...
He’s come back from the depths
Ensenada — THE marathon swimmer churned a solitary path through the chilly current, his wave-sculpted shoulders and arms dragging his lifeless legs through the...
‘I feel stronger and stronger every day’
Wheelchair-bound Andrew Merryweather reckons that by Christmas, he will be walking again - at least with crutches.
Merryweather was attacked at a Newlands petrol station...
Former clinic surgeon sues ex-employer
MADISON - Was a former Marshfield Clinic neurosurgeon an overly aggressive practitioner whose zeal to heal resulted in unnecessary and risky surgeries, or did...
Climber survives 120ft mountain fall after tourists spot him through telescope
Climber Michael Garton's life was saved by a man with a telescope after he survived a fall down a sheer rock face on a...
Cord blood banking called ‘biological insurance’ – but is it worth the cost?
(CP) - Tania and Michael Gurr are expecting their first child in July, and among the decisions the soon-to-be parents must make - from...
