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Summer, 2019: I was on a long bike ride on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail when I first lost consciousness, passing out mid-sentence while talking about 1970s TV shows. I woke up in the brush, my friend Tammy screaming my name in my face. Luckily, I only had a few scrapes. We walked our bikes […]
For Donna and Mike Andre of Brushton, NY, numbers define the moments leading to their son Ben’s tragic death. It was March 17, 2015 – St. Patrick’s Day, Mike’s birthday. Ben had gone to a friend’s house to wait for his girlfriend to get off work at 11. It was classic North Country March weather: […]
April is National “Donate Life” month, an opportunity to celebrate life-saving organ and tissue donors and the recipients whose lives they save. Most often, transplant surgery relies on altruistic generosity. For those waiting with end-stage organ failure, their lives and future are in the hands of strangers, and they wait, not knowing if they will […]
University of Vermont Children’s Hospital is happy to announce our new cleft & craniofacial program, led by pediatric plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Willson and clinical coordinator Kristen Daniels, PA-C. The clinic was previously run by the state of Vermont, and is transitioning care to our team. The program has been many months in the making […]
“Life is a gift.” We’ve said it so often that, for some of us, the thought has lost a little bit of its meaning. But in the hospital, where we daily confront the loss of life, there are some moments that serve as compelling reminder of what the gift of life truly means. So it […]
More than 40 million Americans suffer from varicose veins. For some, varicose veins are a cosmetic nuisance, but for others, they can be quite painful, and could be an indication of other circulatory issues. But what are varicose veins, and how can we really deal with them? Here to shed some light on this vascular […]
Numbers rule our lives. You check the temperature outside, click on digits on the remote to get to your favorite news station, check your speedometer as you drive. And, for many of us, you get on the scale to see how much you weigh. Briana’s Story: “I felt like I was always the one on the […]
June is National Cataract Awareness Month. According to the World Health Organization, cataracts cause 51 percent of world blindness. In my experience, this is definitely true. Fortunately, cataracts are treatable, and in the United States, cataracts only accounts for about 5 percent of blindness. This is mostly due to the wide availability of surgical treatment. […]
On the face of it, there wasn’t anything specific about Eileen Rooney Hausermann’s life growing up in Vermont that might have indicated she would one day be an organ donor. She grew up in Essex Junction, in a large, healthy family, with no hospital experiences as a child and young woman. And yet there were small […]
As Anthony celebrates the anniversary of his kidney transplantation, we sit in our office reflecting on our journey together. It was exactly a year ago when he was called in the middle of the night for a kidney transplantation. His wait was finally over. “One of the luckiest people” Anthony considers himself to be one […]
