Richard & Judy Haphey Pequot Lakes, Minnesota During the summer of 2014 we were working at Bridge Bay Campground in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. In early August, after two days of having a stomach ache, I began vomiting in the middle of the night. My wife was very concerned and consulted a retired nurse in the […]
Charles & Dorothy Larson Longmont, Colorado While wintering in Donna, Texas in March of 2014 my wife Dorothy began having back pain and had difficulty walking. We took her to the hospital and test results confirmed she had a lower lumbar fracture and a form of blood cancer. We knew we needed to get her […]
Lynne Clements –Gainesville, Georgia My husband and I were away from our home in Georgia visiting my family in a remote area of New Brunswick, Canada. While we were there I woke up in the middle of the night and discovered I had no sensation at all on my right side. I had recently been […]
“My wife and four of our friends were enjoying a gorgeous day snow skiing at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont. I have been a professional ski instructor for many years (now retired) and have never had a skiing injury, but something went wrong that day. I read a ridge in the terrain wrong and […]
I became very weak while on vacation in Cancun. I went to the hospital where they checked my blood and discovered my hemoglobin levels were only 1/3 of normal. I called my hemotologist in Kalamazoo, MI who said I needed to get a transfusion to stabilize my condition and then get home. When we called […]
