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‘My life is different’
Small goals and self-compassion deliver big results.
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- July 1, 2020
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Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital
Patient Story
Through the looking glass
The Vanden Berg family found a way around COVID-19 restrictions to share their newborn son with his siblings—holding him up to a hospital window while his sisters waved and blew kisses from the lawn below.
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- March 20, 2020
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‘I realized I had to take care of myself’
Nancy Wolters learned the hard way that preventive care is crucial after she put her own health on the back burner to take care of her family.
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- February 19, 2020
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Double the love
Best friends have babies the same morning in the same hospital.
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- December 9, 2019
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‘You’ve given her a new life’
Shoulder pain haunted 84-year-old Julie Meiste every moment of every day. After shoulder replacement surgery, she looks forward to living pain-free.
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- November 29, 2019
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‘I’m so grateful’
It felt like the flu, but turned into something much more serious. A new mother gets fast care—for her and for her baby.
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- September 13, 2019
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‘You always think it won’t be you’
A man’s lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is 1:833. Meet the one.
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- May 8, 2019
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Making friends with fruits and veggies
A strawberry and piece of string cheese become (an edible) mouse in a fun, hands-on nutrition class for preschoolers.
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- May 6, 2019
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Fearless prospectors
Ten teens headed into the California wilderness to find courage in the face of hemophilia. A Michigan nurse with the same disorder helped show them the way.
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- March 22, 2019
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Sister survivors
Siblings Gloria Kragt and Judith Woodwyk battled breast cancer together. And won.
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- August 18, 2017
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A lifetime of change
A nursing technician looks back at the innumerable changes in health care after half a century of service.
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- August 11, 2017
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