There are times where life hits you very hard, very quickly – one punch right after another. Toni McNeal experienced this herself firsthand when she suffered from a brain aneurysm in July 2019. When the aneurysm burst, she was still coherent enough to call 911 on her own, but to her the details are fuzzy
It’s a situation that many Americans are in right now: you’re out of work due to COVID-19 and you have kids to take care of, but you just don’t have the money for your medications or for a well-visit. Plus, maybe you have an auto-immune disorder that keeps you from going out too much, maybe
Belinda Hernandez considered herself just a regular Texan – she’d been born and raised in Dallas, has a brother in Arlington, has two daughters, a boyfriend, a mom, a dad, and attends the family’s massive 400+ person reunion every few years. But in 2010, Belinda started feeling sick. Over the course of several years, she
For some children, going in for a checkup can be a scary experience. Either the office smells funny, the doctor’s stethoscope is cold, and you really, really don’t want to get your shots. One pediatric patient, Olivia, had these same reservations when she first started seeing Joseph Hallock, one of HSNT’s Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. “Olivia
After 53 years of growing up in Lewisville, getting married, and raising a family, Lisa Anderson was moving away from the home she was so familiar with. A widow of 11 years, Lisa has been living with her daughter and son-in-law in Aubrey, unable to work due to a series of falls that have left
Imagine for a moment that you just moved to a new country with your husband and your four children. Your new home is a one-bedroom apartment that you share with another family. Your children sleep on the floor in one corner and the other family’s children sleep in the other. You have no friends and
They say good things come in threes, but sometimes the same can be said for bad things, too. Michelle Brown experienced this for herself in the late 2000s when she lost her job, which meant that she lost her health insurance coverage. After that, doctors discovered a mass growing on her pancreas, resulting in an
Moving back to his home state of Texas was a difficult prospect for James Knigge. He’d been living in California since 1988, for so long that it had become essentially his second home. He met his husband, Glade, in Orange County in ’92. But his mother was ill, and he couldn’t just leave her alone.