By Meredith Whittemore You don’t need to tell Kathy Marshall how close she was to dying after experiencing an aortic dissection in August. Her brother experienced one several years prior. “He was in a coma for a week or so after he one. He almost bled out and died. I didn’t realize at first how [Continue Reading]
It Takes Team Work to Bring a Man Back to Life
By Meredith Whittemore Raymound Manuel believes he’s alive today based on one thing: team work. The 57-year-old had gone in for a stress test at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center in September 2018, but one he completed it, things took a sharp turn. “I remember saying ‘I don’t feel good’ and then I passed [Continue Reading]
Buddy’s Last Cigarette
By Meredith Whittemore Buddy Reid’s life completely changed in the span of 15 minutes. “I went out to have a cigarette at 10 that morning, and by 10:15 I was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital,” Reid said. Reid remembers feeling a “weird type of tired” while working in the ground support [Continue Reading]
The 90th Birthday That Almost Wasn’t
By Meredith Whittemore Virgie Davis smiled as her family presented her 90th birthday cake – a vanilla cake with purple roses, her favorite color and her favorite flower. It was an especially poignant celebration because just a few months ago, her family worried the family matriarch might not make her milestone birthday. “It started off [Continue Reading]
Finding a “New Normal” After A Widowmaker
By Meredith Whittemore Maria Adames will never remember a two-and-a-half-week period in the summer of 2018, but it’s a time her family will never forget. “I’d been feeling tired and then I was sick for several days before my husband took me to the emergency room at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital. I remember some [Continue Reading]
Measles is Highly Contagious. Here’s How to Protect Your Family
By Rhiannon Collette On the heels of an announcement this week that measles cases have been identified in the Greater Houston region, many parents are wondering what they can do to best protect their children, especially those too young to have been fully vaccinated yet. While measles is a highly contagious disease that is easily [Continue Reading]
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