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CATEGORY: Our Patient Heroes
TGH patients bring their stories to state leaders in Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE -- Two busloads of Tampa General Hospital patients visited elected officials in the Florida Capitol this week to explain how TGH’s world-class health care had transformed their lives....
He can’t walk or breathe on his own – but this honors graduate...
Still the storm unrelenting, pushed us to our limitations,
We faced the beast head-on,
Yelling out our battle cry, of unyielding determination.
This verse is from “Unrelenting Determination...
Former trauma patients reunite with their caregivers at Tampa...
In 2017 Wendy Akins was driving to a company picnic in Valrico. In a split second her life changed forever – a car crossed the center line and collided head-on with the front of her car.
“I looked...
Ann's turn to triumph: Liver transplant saves a nurse'...
The tables turned on Ann McCracken early last year. For most of her life, the 58-year-old Tampa resident cared for others, both as a mother and a nurse.
But the chronic disease that had slowly...
New heart gives her more time to love
Tonya Cajuste still laughs about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Even though she ate it on the morning she almost died.
Cajuste and her husband, JC, were getting ready for church one...
After flip gone wrong, boy stays hopeful, but warns other kids
One moment, Trey Smetana was a normal 15-year-old, athletic enough to both play football and perform flips and tumbling runs.
All that changed in an instant in a bounce house at a church camp two...
How best to respond to brother's illness? Make lemonade
When Avery Ranieri decided she wanted to sell lemonade to help sick children, she had no idea how big her effort would become.
But the lemonade stand that 9-year-old Avery hosted a few weeks ago...
For these children, a place to celebrate and to heal
Ricky, 10, and Korben, 11, have waited all year for this week.
So many rides, so much squealing, and no time to feel self-conscious about their scars, the visible evidence of their encounters with...
For trauma survivors, small gestures can mean big victories
15-year-old Briant Cummings smiled as he lifted his left hand and curled his fingers.
Ordinarily, it would be a small gesture.
But on this particular Wednesday, Briant’s action made the room...
What did this mom get for Mother's Day? Her own little...
Margaret Mae Griffiths was born too little to be held.
She arrived in the world last July 3. Three-and-a-half months early, she weighed just a pound and was unable to see or breathe on her own...
When cancer threatens, an innovative solution
Tampa resident Curtistine Bryant was looking forward to a milestone event when she got the bad news.
Instead of looking forward to seeing her two granddaughters graduate from high school in May,...
On World Prematurity Day, visitors with messages of hope
To honor World Prematurity Day, representatives from the March of Dimes visited parents in Tampa General Hospital’s Jennifer Leigh Muma Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Thursday,...
Unstoppable…Until He Sprang a Leak
Frank Foster fought in the Korean War. At age 80, he still climbs ladders and paints. He works part-time as a handyman just to keep busy. He golfs with a passion and won’t hesitate to tell you that...
For These Brothers, a Summer of Sound
Tampa resident Elias Goutoufas has been unable to hear for most of his life.
So has his brother, Davelis, or D.C. But earlier this summer, D.C. Goutoufas got cochlear implants...
After a Lifetime of Silence, Sound
Davelis “D.C.” Goutoufas has never heard the voices of his wife or his daughter.
That’s all about to change.
Goutoufas, 47, has never let deafness stop him. A fourth-generation Tampa...
A Bold Choice to Fight Epilepsy
It was scary enough for Letitia Browne-James’ parents to witness their child’s epileptic seizures. But they were also frightened when a doctor suggested brain surgery for their 12-year-old.
“My...
TGH Has New Treatment for Catastrophic Blood Clots
How many times can a single injury almost kill you?
James Johnston knows it’s more than once.
The 41-year-old generator mechanic at MacDill Air Force Base dodged death once by surviving a...
A message in spray paint, straight from the heart.
When 13-year-old Connor DeBoer was diagnosed with a deadly bone cancer, treatment was a long, uncertain road. When she reached the end of her journey, her mom spread the news in a big way. See the...
