Items Tagged ‘5314’
August 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Florida Double Lung Transplant Recipients ‘Pay it Forward’
When Richard Oppelt of Melbourne, Fla., became the first lung-transplant program patient at Mayo Clinic in Florida in June 2001, he never thought that 12 years later he’d be helping someone else with the same situation deal with his recovery. But that’s exactly what Oppelt did in Dec. 2012 when he heard John McGill, a friend of […]
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Tags: 3790, 5314, 5324, 5334, Florida, Gabriel House of Care, lung transplant, MayoClinicFL, pulmonary, Transplant
July 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Harmonica Helps Pulmonary and Lung-Transplant Patients Breath Easier
By Lauren Venoy 
After surviving two separate lung transplant procedures in 2005 and 2008, musician Larry Rawdon is sharing new ways of healing through music with other patients at Mayo Clinic in Florida. It was, after all, music that led him to Mayo Clinic and aided in his recovery after he was diagnosed in 2002 with idiopathic pulmonary […]
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Tags: 3790, 5254, 5314, 5324, 5334, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular, Cesar Keller, Florida, Harmonica, Larry Rawdon, lung transplant
February 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
An Unexpected Miracle from Down the Hallway
Sometimes miracles happen when you least expect them. No one believes that more than Fleming Island, Florida resident Shirley Thompson, whose tale of how she received two new lungs while in a medically induced coma at Mayo Clinic hospital in Florida isn’t exactly the typical scenario. The 48-year old married, mother of two was first […]
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November 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Jane Fausel invested in her health by choosing Mayo Clinic to treat her lung cancer, and she’s glad she did.
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Tags: 2196, 5314, 5333, Alternative Medicine, Dr. Ross, Jane Fausel, lung cancer, Mayo Clinic
April 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Young girl with complicated health problems grows up seeing Mayo as second home
By MakalaArce 
Hello: I am Carolyn of Missouri. I have long been a patient of Mayo Clinic since about 1942 and am still a patient visiting about every 3 months. Sometime after I was born, we moved to Glendale…that is where we lived when I took sick at the age of about 20 months. The Dr. there treated me […]
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Tags: 5267, 5314, 5335, cake decorator, Cake Lady, Carolyn, Eric Edell, Jan Kasperbauer, Kahler Hospital, larnyx, Mayo Clinic, pappilloma
March 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Nicotine Dependence Residential Treatment Program – John’s Experience
By MakalaArce
It’s one of those things that at least for me, even when I was leaving to go to Rochester back in 2008, I really had little hope the program would work for me. I smoked 2+ packs a day for 25+ years, and it’s not an easy thing to let go. In my mind it gave […]
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Tags: 5290, 5314, 5335, cessation, John, Mayo Clinic, Nicotine Dependence, Residential Treatment, smoking