Barking dog alerts woman that she was having a stroke
Sharon Solum of Moorhead, Minnesota, remembers waking up in the middle of the night on Feb. 11, 2017, wanting to check on her mother who’d had surgery the day before. Solum struggled to get out of bed and couldn’t sit up. Suddenly her dog, Boo, started barking and jumping on her chest, something she’d never […]
Triathlete with eyes on Olympics trains at Sanford Health
Tony Smoragiewicz’s first triathlon was an accident. He was, as he remembers, about 12 years old, living in his hometown of Rapid City, South Dakota. Smoragiewicz had been swimming for some time (his dad, a high school and college swimmer, had passed his amphibious genes down to his two sons) and was prepared to undertake […]
An act of love, not a burden to care for others
Why cancer survivors should not feel like they are a burden.