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Lincoln woman carries baby for best friend
A Lincoln woman is giving her best friend one of the most meaningful and personal gifts one can give, the gift of motherhood.
July 7, 2021 5:44 pm
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Katie Gifford wondered if she would ever be able to hold her baby in her arms.
Katie has a muscle disease that her doctors have told her makes it dangerous for her to give birth. She and her husband looked into surrogacy options and were blown away by how expensive it was.
“It was devastating,” she said. “Like, there was no way we were going to be able to have children this way.”
With more and more New Yorkers getting their COVID-19 vaccines, Saratoga County school administrators wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the dedication of more than 50 school nurses who participated in closed PODs for educators over the last two months.
These PODs, which stands for Point of Dispensing, are temporary sites in the community where vaccines can be quickly administered to people in large numbers. Recently, several PODs ran through a partnership between Saratoga County Public Health Services, Saratoga County schools and WSWHE BOCES.
Just about every Friday from Jan. 29 until April 16, happy educators could be seen leaving PODs at the WSWHE BOCES Ballard Road Conference Center or Ballard Elementary School in Wilton, knowing that they had received their vaccine and were a step closer toward returning our schoolsâ classrooms to normal.