They are among the most dangerous animals on the planet. Weighing anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds, equipped with horns and an unpredictable temperament, buffalo have been known to attack at random, according to the National Park Service. Roy Kaase knows all too well about the power of the buffalo. After years of raising [Continue Reading]
Something New Takes Flight at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Just days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Gulf Coast, a group of excited Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center employees looked to the sky on the John S. Dunn Helistop as a blur of green zoomed through the air. The iconic red Memorial Hermann Life Flight® helicopters take off [Continue Reading]
He lost a leg, but he never gave up.
“There have been days when I didn’t feel like I would make it through,” says Jarrell Bryant, a formerpatient at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center who was admitted through the hospital’s Red Duke Trauma Institute. “I went through the ‘why me’s,’ but I got past it. My wife and I have an eight-year-old daughter I have [Continue Reading]
Air Force Veteran Defies the Odds and Survives a Ruptured Brain Aneurysm
As a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Danisha Henry is trained to handle high pressure, high stress situations. What she didn’t realize was the life-threatening situation she’d have to battle through after putting the combat zone behind her. “Back in March, I was in the kitchen, and the next thing I remember is being [Continue Reading]
From a Traumatic Brain Injury Patient to a Memorial Hermann Employee
By Barre Morris, PMP,CSM, ITIL Becoming Universal Studio’s biggest franchise of all time, the Fast and the Furious is a series of action films about illegal street racing. Driving on the highways and roads of Houston sometimes seems no different from being among the fast and furious either. Houston’s population growth and suburban sprawl has [Continue Reading]
“Four seconds is all it takes: The day my daughter nearly drowned.”
By Elizabeth Nuño, mom of four and wife to ABC sportscaster David Nuño On Monday, July 14, 2014, my daughter almost drowned. That evening, we were at our backyard neighbors’ house for a BBQ and swimming. Our then 6-year-old twin boys knew how to swim and had one season of swim team under their belts. [Continue Reading]