Your Healthy Family: Anonymous donation means patients needing critical treatment can get care in Colorado Springs
Donna says, âit has made a significant difference in many ways.â She is spending less time in her wheel chair, her energy is up and she hasnât had to be admitted to the hospital to have treatment after falling into crisis because her symptoms had grown out of control.
and last updated 2021-04-22 19:51:06-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Donna Bryant lives in Falcon and used to have to travel to the VA hospital in metro Denver to get needed plasma exchange treatments for her myasthenia gravis, a debilitating nueromuscular disease.
Your Healthy Family: Springs woman improving in fight with debilitating neuromuscular disease
Donna explains when she was first diagnosed, âIt was very awkward and unusual. I would get fatigued in the most unusual ways. My coworkers and everyone thought I was drinking, or using drugs.
and last updated 2021-04-21 17:29:19-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â There s a new medical space in Colorado Springs that was gifted to UCHealth Memorial by an anonymous donor that is vastly improving the quality of life of patients by making critical treatments available locally, saving them the trip to Denver.
Itâs an Apheresis Suite, and is located in the new infusion center at UCHealth Memorial North Hospital in Colorado Springs. Apheresis is basically a process of collecting someoneâs blood, separating it into itâs base components, and then removing parts of the blood that may contain disease, or disease-provoking elements and then replacing it.
Leadership matters hometownsource.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hometownsource.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.