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Patient Stories Angela Keiser

Celebrating survivors: Angela Keiser's story
It was Sept. 1, 2009, when I received the call that I had thyroid cancer. I was just 26 years old and 14 weeks pregnant with my second child.
Patient Stories Before: My daughter, Miakoda, and I on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe during the Summer of 2019. After: April 2021

How medical weight loss works: The help is inside
After more than nearly 20 years of failed weight loss attempts, I feel like I’ve finally found what works for me.
Patient Stories Brandi, daughter Bailey, son Gatlin, and husband Justin

Patient receives cancer care that's above and beyond
For most of her adult life, the fear of cancer was always in the back of Brandi Dittmar’s mind. She had good reason.
Patient Stories Pictured are Pat and Mike Leibrandt of McCook, Nebraska.

Fund eases stress for families facing medical crisis
The Patient and Family Experience Fund assists hundreds of patients and their families each year by helping them with everyday needs such as lodging, meals, gas cards and transportation.
Patient Stories Ezra Fellers with mom Serena, dad Mark and big brother Anthony.

Fellers family thankful for their healthy baby after liver transplant
Ezra’s liver kept getting worse and worse despite medicine helping the other small hemangiomas shrink. He spent his entire life sick.
Patient Stories Jake Immink, Nebraska's first COVID lung transplant recipient

Nebraska Medicine performs state's first COVID lung transplant
Read the story of lung transplant recipient, Jake Immink, who has been hospitalized since November 2020.
Patient Stories Patient Sayda Woodbury

Funny-feeling fingers lead to shocking diagnosis
The family of Sayda Woodbury shares how the Hyperbaric Oxygen Unit helped their daughter recover from an infection in her brain.
Patient Stories Ward Chambers, MD, receiving his COVID-19 vaccine

What it was like to live through the polio epidemic
Cardiologist Ward Chambers, MD, talks about what it was like to live through not one pandemic, but two.
Patient Stories Mercedes Aguilar

Sharing the legacy of organ donation
"I had a lot of faith. Never did I ask ‘why me," she says. "I always said, ‘Lord, just please give me the strength to keep fighting.'" Two transplants later, she's thankful she never gave up.
Patient Stories Dr. Chatzizisis provides a post-surgical briefing with Boston Scientific.

Megatron: The largest arteries require the largest stents
If your heart artery was blocked, would you rather have an invasive procedure that takes a week to recover from or one where you can go home the next day? A brand new stent called Megatron makes faster recoveries possible.
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