by Dan Hill | Mar 28, 2012 | Inheritance of Hope Stories
Imagine pinching your nose shut and breathing only through a coffee straw. “It feels like you have asthma and emphysema,” said M’Leigha Graham. The average human trachea, the windpipe that carries air to the lungs, is 15-20 millimeters wide. When...
by Dan Hill | Oct 30, 2011 | Inheritance of Hope Stories
The Fields family from Vicennes, Indiana, had plenty of challenges already. Lisa had been battling a kidney disease and diabetes, and her 14-year-old son Isaac was diagnosed with kidney disease. Then Ollie found himself unable to continue driving trucks and left his...
by Dan Hill | Sep 28, 2011 | Inheritance of Hope Stories
Shari Elliot and her husband Rob are self-described Google researchers. The couple living in Bradenton, Fla. browses message boards and networks with cancer patients. Both veterans of the medical industry, they are not afraid to look up scientific journals and read...
by Dan Hill | Aug 30, 2011 | Inheritance of Hope Stories
“I’ve got a different perspective,” Tom Dodd said. The engineer from Seneca, S.C. became a widower almost three years ago. Dodd and his two adopted sons moved closer to his parents, took a new job and remarried after the loss. He received support from friends and...
by Dan Hill | Jul 30, 2011 | Inheritance of Hope Stories
As the sun rose on the morning of July 3, Cheryl and Matt Broyles were climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park with their two sons: Grant, 14, and 12-year-old Clint. Gripping the cables that assist climbers on their ascent, the family enjoyed a majestic view...
