Posts by Deana Campbell
Caring Colleagues Supported Cheryl During Her Battle With Cancer
Her double mastectomy was the easiest part. That’s what Cheryl West says of breast cancer treatment, which tells you just how difficult her road has been. Two weeks before her annual mammogram, Cheryl saw a bruise in the mirror and felt a lump. She decided not to wait to see her doctor, and is grateful…
Read MoreJanet Finds Help When Things Were Almost Too Much To Bear
After 22 years caring for patients, Janet Shields found herself in need of care. In early 2018, the Memorial Hospital Jacksonville ER clerk was diagnosed with breast cancer. The week she had her lumpectomy, she suffered a detached retina. While surgery was scary enough, having a second problem on top of that — and one…
Read MoreThe Comerford Family Find Comfort From the HCA Hope Fund and Caring Colleagues
Getting the call that your husband is extremely ill in the hospital is terrifying enough, but when that hospital is far from home, the fear intensifies. That was the situation for Christine Comerford, a nurse in Austin, Texas. She dropped everything so that she could fly to Phoenix and be by her husband’s side. “He…
Read MoreNessa Lomax Found Help After Losing Everything
When she was taking stock of her situation in a Houston-area emergency shelter, Nessa Lomax was both grateful — and afraid. Grateful because her family and pet made it out safely when the waters of Hurricane Harvey rose to and through their home, and afraid because they only got away with a few backpacks’ worth…
Read MoreHope Fund Helps a Family Keep Going
In a matter of seconds, Jose “Rusty” Ouano, a medical technician at Centennial Medical Plaza in Centennial, Colorado, went from joyfully singing during a church service to getting so weak he nearly passed out. An ambulance rushed him to the hospital where doctors worked to find what was wrong. “It was scary for my wife.…
Read MoreA Bright Spot of Hope During a Difficult Time
Julie Overton, an RN from Kansas, was fighting to keep things together for herself and her family while life seemed to be throwing her one curve ball after another. Since late 2016 Julie had been having severe migraine headaches, and over the next few months her symptoms got progressively worse to include confusion, difficulty with…
Read MoreFrom Caregiver to the One Needing Care, Without Warning
Working with patients who are recovering from a stroke or other major medical issue is how James Keith spends his days. But when he became the patient, he was not prepared for how much and how quickly his world would change. “I had an acute stroke and wasn’t aware what had happened right away,” recalls James, a…
Read MoreHope Fund Helps Mother of Three Focus on Getting Better
On Christmas Eve 2015, Belinda Brown, Medical Staff Coordinator at Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana, was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. At first she didn’t know how to react. “I was more in shock than anything else,” she says. “I lived a healthy lifestyle; I’d rarely been hospitalized before. I just couldn’t…
Read MoreWith your support, the Hope Fund helps employee focus on son’s needs during lengthy recovery period
Ask any 13-year-old’s mother, and she will tell you that life is a whirlwind. That is certainly true for Amy Wilson-King and her son Caeden, but in early March 2016 an unexpected diagnosis added a lot of uncertainty and fear as well. “He’d been having some vague symptoms, like blurry vision and headaches, but he’d also…
Read MoreYour support helps optimistic employee after heart surgeries
When Albert Gonzales had heart-catheterization surgery in of March 2016, he was hoping that this would be the end of the cardiac issues that began with a quadruple bypass in 2006. Instead, he found himself back in the hospital and unable to work just as his wife was laid off from her job. “Of all…
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