Mary Ann
Food safety is very personal topic for me and for my family. Just before Labor Day 2006, my fit and active 80-year-old mom, Mary Ann, bought a bag of pre-washed, ready-to-serve spinach that she assumed was safe to eat, if not beneficial to her health. Unfortunately, the spinach was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 — […]
Serena
In 1993, after living for years in the Portland area, I moved with my husband, John, to Lincoln City, Oregon. We were blessed to find 40 acres in the coastal mountains, fifteen miles from town. John worked for United Telephone, and I worked at a local restaurant. It was the perfect place for our three […]
Angela
Kidney failure, constant pain and nausea, extreme weakness, and weeks laid up in a hospital bed. Not the kind of life you’d normally describe for a typical, active 15-year-old girl looking forward to celebrating her Sweet 16th birthday, is it? But that’s exactly the kind of harrowing, hellish ordeal I went through back in high […]
Trevor
Maybe it’s the 24-hour flu. This is what Erin Simmons initially thought when her 8-year-old son Trevor’s school called her late in the morning on Jan. 25, 2017. “He doesn’t look good,” the nurse said. Simmons cut out of a conference call early to pick him up. It was a Wednesday. And it was flu […]
Charles
The evening of June 3rd, 2016, was like any other Friday – after work we headed home and ordered out. My husband Charles, who was 49 at the time, called a favorite pizza place in our hometown of National Park, NJ, for a half sausage Sicilian pizza for pick up. When he came home he […]
Kiley
All the people in my life expressed their joy that I was recovering, which made it harder to let them know that I was still struggling.
Patrick
“When I got home, it was clear that Dianne was, in fact, very sick.”
Dani
“I thought the day would come when I would just turn a corner and then, somehow, I’d have my life back. Unfortunately, my body didn’t always agree with my mind.”
Hunter
“What 20-year-old do you know with a full hip replacement?”
Taylor
I really wanted to hear somebody say, “that sucks” instead of the more common, “stay positive”.
Whitney
“In my head I thought, “I’m going to be okay. It can’t get any worse than what I just experienced.” Boy was I wrong.”
Jensen
… I was feeling like a crazy person. I could see that something was clearly wrong with my son but the doctors didn’t see it.
