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If you told me at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic my future would include spending 12 days in the a hospital located 1,300 miles from my home, I would have thought that cannot be possible! But sure enough, that’s what happened. While making a personal trip to Sioux Center, I came down with COVID 19. As it became…

It was a beautiful fall day.  I love fall.  Usually the humidity of summer has left.  The evenings and mornings are cool while the daytime hours are just the right temperature.  September 22 was of those ideal autumn days. To make matters even better, I had the day off.  And—to make matters doubly better—Luke had a baseball game.  A beautiful…

On Friday, July 29 I was airlifted from Sioux Center to Avera McKennon in Sioux Falls. At the time the diagnosis was uncertain but was later determined to be an acute case of West Nile Virus. I was in McKennon until August 16. Because of the encephalitis from West Nile, my cognitive ability and balance were impacted. While in the…

Several years ago I had a routine physical done at the Hull Medical Clinic where my doctor found a lump on my breast. I was scheduled at that time to have a diagnostic mammogram done. It was then confirmed that I did indeed have a lump on my breast and was recommended by my doctor to have that lump surgically…

I had been fortunate to never have suffered a serious injury from playing soccer until my senior year of college. On October 1, 2015, in one of the final games of the season, I was slide tackled from the side and my left leg got caught between the other player’s legs. As we both fell to the ground I felt a slight popping and tearing…