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Survivor Around the Globe, Tricia Bonilla Harrison
The Strength of Love Bombs were exploding in my head. One after the other. It was the single most extraordinary pain I have experienced in my life. I never knew that I knew what an aneurysm was until one of mine was rupturing. Just like that, a simple and ordinary day changed into a day […]
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017Read More -
Honoring the Taken, Joe LaScola
It is so heavy to face the fact that my husband, Joe, has passed. Today is almost 24 months since his passing. Nights and mornings feel the same time to me – when I close my eyes, I open in the morning with bitter reality-feelings. Maybe I would have been stronger if he died from […]
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Carol Carlson
It was a beautiful early fall day in October 2002. My wife, Carol, and I had both taken a day off from work that Friday to do mundane things in the yard and house. We had recently experienced a comfortable change in our lives, being no longer responsible for the day to day parenting of […]
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2017Read More -
Facilitator Spotlight, Mary Pat Baldauf
How did you first discover the Joe Niekro Foundation? When I woke up in the hospital after having had a brain aneurysm, my sister Beth shared information about JNF with me. I was clueless about what had happened to me and wanted to know more. What do you do as a volunteer for the foundation? […]
Posted on Wednesday, September 6, 2017Read More -
Survivor Around the Globe, Tara Thornton
In Oct of 2006 I started having memory and balance issues. At that time I was a cocktail waitress in a casino in Las Vegas. An EMT at work suggested I get checked out by my doctor. I made an appointment for the next day. My doctor thought I had a herniated disc and sent […]
Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2017Read More