Oregon man’s survival after unspeakable battle with COVID-19 a testament to our healthcare heroes
Updated May 07, 2021;
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By Lee Ann Moyer
The man in the video on Karma Sammy’s smartphone plays guitar in a crisply pressed suit. He sings along to the clapping of those around him. His eyes light up the room.
Weeks later, 67-year-old Ken Sammy was dressed in a washed-out hospital gown, paralyzed and unable to speak. His mouth, nose, and throat were riddled with sores from intubations, ventilators, oxygen masks, and feeding tubes. His body was exhausted from its struggle with COVID-19.
He could communicate only with his eyes and he used them, fiercely, to tell nurse Nikky Oldham to back off. She got the message. Even behind gloves, gown, mask, and face shield, she could tell he was afraid.
COVID-19 battles bring out the best in health care heroes
Updated May 09, 2021;
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By Lee Ann Moyer, Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive
The man in the video on Karma Sammy’s smartphone plays guitar in a crisply pressed suit. He sings along to the clapping of those around him. His eyes light up the room.
Weeks later, her husband, 67-year-old Ken Sammy, was dressed in a washed-out hospital gown, paralyzed and unable to speak. His mouth, nose, and throat were riddled with sores from intubations, ventilators, oxygen masks, and feeding tubes. His body was exhausted from its struggle with COVID-19.
State lawmakers want to change the way Alabama handles future lockdowns
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
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The shutdown could not come at any worse time last spring for the mom-and-pop children’s boutiques in state Rep. David Wheeler’s district.
“Easter was their business,” said Wheeler, R-Vestavia Hills. “Yet, there was Target and Walmart open and selling children’s clothes.”
Owners had no recourse, and nowhere to lodge their complaints, he said. Wheeler wants to change that and is pitching legislation creating a citizens’ health advisory board in Jefferson County to provide oversight of the county’s health officer.
He’s not alone. A host of mostly Republican state lawmakers, relegated to the regulatory sideline for much of the coronavirus pandemic, want to enter the fray during future health emergencies and are pitching bills aimed at reforming the public health administration in Alabama.
Episode 563 J.W. Lees and De Dolle Holiday Classics, Curtain Up Preview
Aired: Friday, December 18th 2020
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HOSTED BY Jimmy Carbone
This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy welcomes in Michael Opalenski from B United Imports; Justin Philips from Beer Table in Grand Central Terminal, NYC; and William Lees-Jones from J.W. Lees Brewery in Manchester, UK. The group welcomes the holiday season with a winter beer tasting, starting with JW Lee’s 2002 and 2015 Harvest Ales, and finishing with De Dolle’s Stille Nacht. Before tasting the aged beers, Michael explains the rising trend of “vintaging” beers. Later on, Justin explains that vintage ales actually launched his interest in craft beer. For William on the other hand, his family has been brewing beer since 1828, and it was his father who took on the challenge of brewing a strong beer with natural fermentation. The group takes a stab at food pairings, starting with the 2015 Harvest