Tag: Breast Cancer

• Leap of Faith

  

  I currently have a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree as a family nurse practitioner. I work as fulltime faculty for Herzing University in the online family nurse practitioner program. words + photographs AMBER ENNIS Looking back over my life, I can see God’s hand guiding me to where I am today, but I never would…

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  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, Lead Outta Love

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• Kevin Zwingle Is Worth Fighting For

  

  In mid-July 2020, right around his birthday, my husband, Kevin, began complaining of headaches. Headaches were unusual, but it was a hot summer, and we initially chalked it up to dehydration and overworking. Weeks went on, as did the heat, and as did the headaches. Kevin generally was able to lie down and gain relief.…

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  September 5, 2021

  2021, Neighbors, September 2021

  Breast Cancer, Colon, Dr. Ben Lisle, Dr. Robin Trottman, Dr. Salim Rahman, Greenfield, Headaches, Jugular Veins, Kevin Zwingle, Missouri, Missouri State University, Neurologist, Peyton Zwingle, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sandi Zwingle, Springfield, Zack Zwingle

• Sidelined, but Fighting

  

  Traci Prater has cancer. Cancer does not have Traci Prater. Friday night, March 12, I’m leaving work, and I put my trench coat on. It feels heavy, and I feel a slight pain in the center of my torso, just below my sternum. I think to myself, “Well, that has never happened before.” But the…

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  July 5, 2021

  2021, July 2021, Neighbors

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Bethel Baptist Church, Big Cedar Lodge, Brain Cancer, Branson, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, God, Indicators, KY3, Liver, Murney Associates, Psalm 103:8, Real Estate, Sharp Pain, Stage 4 Colon Cancer, Stage IV, Traci Prater, Urgent Care, West Plains, Zane