Fall | Winter 2011

• Keeping the Spine Aligned
  Rich Kyler is living his dream. A detective and member of the Omaha SWAT team, Rich had dreamed of working on the police force since he was 15 years old. Nothing was going to take that from him now. Not even a broken back.
• Renewing Life
  About halfway into her six-month treatment regimen, Rhonda Peterson arrived on schedule at the Village Pointe Cancer Center for her weekly chemotherapy treatment. Peterson usually left feeling tired and fatigued. But today she left with a renewed sense of self-confidence, a smile on her face and sporting a beautiful head of new, silky blonde hair.
• The Sound of a Whistle
  It wasn’t so much a calling that Richard Hurd, MD, was responding to when he chose family practice medicine. It was a whistle.

• A Deep Breath
  For as long as Karen Behrens can remember, she has caught a cold or suffered from bronchitis nearly every month of her life. The colds would often linger longer than normal and sometimes they would progress to pneumonia.
• Limitless Possibilities
  Stored in a liquid nitrogen freezer at temperatures below -150°C are several thousand small bags of human hematopoietic stem cells. They are the link to life and a possible cure for many patients with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.