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Man learns – and feels – how much knee replacement has improved
Daniel Wert has had both knees replaced. While the procedures took place several years apart, the difference in his experiences is best described as night and day.
Woman uses creativity to express gratitude after terrifying experience
Anne Stupavsky uses words including “positive”, “nice”, “honest” and “candid” to describe herself.
Nurses deliver two lives thanks to “great catch”
At least 1.7 million adults in America will develop sepsis every year. Over the past year, more than 30 Blessing caregivers have been recognized as “Sepsis Heroes” for the early identification of sepsis in their patients.
Woman finds you can have your cake and lose weight, too
Missi Clary has a unique way of describing herself before she found the Blessing Bariatric Center’s Medically Managed Weight Loss program.
Know your options before taking a medical “road trip”
Learning you have a medical condition can be stressful. Believing you have to go out of town to receive the care you need – putting your life into the hands of a doctor and staff you don’t know at an unfamiliar hospital, away from your regular support system of family and friends – adds to that stress. Not to mention the hours on the road and precious days of care lost in-between appointments.
Oh baby, how things have changed and how nurses are responding
Giving birth has changed over the years. New techniques and options allow families to be more involved with their care and plan their own experience. But not all recent changes have been as positive.
People needing partial knee replacement have new option at Blessing Hospital
People needing a partial knee replacement have a new option to feel better faster with new technology at Blessing Hospital.
This is not your typical “first-ever” surgery
The words printed on Marla Harper’s shirt said it all, “Think Happy Thoughts.” A week from the day she wore the shirt, Marla would have a mastectomy. In her 68 years of life, this would be her first surgery.
Lack of family breast cancer history confounds survivor
Barbara “Babs” Herring of Hannibal learned something about breast cancer this past summer.