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| Party with the
Pros |
Genesys Health Foundation, with
the support of local community members and organizations, presents
"Party with the (Buick Open) Pros," Friday, June 27, from 6 p.m.
to 11 p.m. Three families in Grand Blanc will open their homes to
host this fundraising event - Lou and Melanie Dortch, Rich and
Debbie Nemesi, and Jeff and Joan Powell. These homes overlook the
16th hole of Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club, the site of the
Buick Open golf tournament, which celebrates its 50th anniversary
this year.
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| Genesys Charity Classic |
The 16th annual Charity Classic is a Genesys Health Foundation
special event that raises money for the local community. For the
next five years, funds raised through the Charity Classic will
benefit Health Access, a program that helps uninsured and
underinsured Genesee County residents find ways to meet their health care
needs. Health Access can help locate a doctor, identify programs that
can help pay medical bills, and connect clients with resources to
improve their health.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
| Clarkston woman re-energized after hip
surgery |
 Clarkston resident Val Henderson had no
idea how much her aching hip was affecting her energy level, and
her life. “I kept going, but any kind of activity would slow me
down and agitate my hip,” she reports. “I finally decided to have it
looked at after my co-workers pushed me. I guess they got tired of
hearing me complain about it,” she jokes.
An MRI revealed
frayed ligaments in her right hip. “The ball in my hip socket had
tightened, and it caused the ligaments to fray,” Val describes.
“My orthopedic surgeon (Edward Lis, DO, on staff at Genesys), told
me about a new, less invasive procedure that would work great for
me, and spare me from hip replacement surgery.”
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| Dizziness disappears with one
treatment at Genesys |
 Dizziness disappears with
one treatment at Genesys Linden resident Corinne Withey couldn’t
turn her head from side to side quickly, lay down or sit up in
bed, blow dry her hair, bend down,or quickly look up without going
into a head spin, literally.
“I’d get this terrible
dizziness that would last about eight or nine seconds, long enough for me
to feel nauseous and have to stop dead in my tracks,” the wife and
mother of two teenage sons explains. “If I turned my head quickly
when driving I could get dizzy. When I did housework – vacuuming,
mopping the floor, loading laundry in the dryer, reaching up in
the cupboard for dishes – I had to be so careful or the dizziness
would return. Just as fast as it would hit me, it would go away,
but it would happen many times every day.”
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| Mom in good hands with Genesys OB
team |
 Wife and mother to two sons – Jayden, 5; and
Jace, 2 – Grand Blanc resident Nikki Jones uses the word “perfect”
frequently when talking about her childbirth experiences at
Genesys. Her prenatal care was perfect, her delivery was perfect, the
lactation consultants were “absolutely awesome” … and perfect, and
“I love my obstetrician (Thomas Wright, DO, OB/GYN on staff at
Genesys).
“He was absolutely wonderful; he’s the type of
doctor who takes time to explain things. I had marginal placenta
previa with one of my pregnancies, and he spent extra time with me
through this scary period. I knew I was in good hands.”
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| Genesys gives Flint man a
second chance at life |
 For his 41st birthday
last year, Flint resident John Albright treated himself to a
recumbent bicycle. “It was time I started getting in shape,” he notes.
At 390 pounds, the industrial computer integration specialist
smoked for 27 years before quitting at age 40, ate “a lot” of Little
Debbie snacks as part of his daily diet, and drank at least one,
and sometimes two, two-liter bottles of pop everyday.
John
was a walking time bomb who got very lucky. While exercising, he
started having some pain in his chest and arm. “I tried to ignore it
at first,” he admits. But, when the pain returned with more
intensity the second day and the third and the fourth, after only a few
minutes on his exercise bike, John listened to his body this
time, and headed for the Genesys East Flint Campus Emergency
department in Burton, where physicians quickly confirmed that John’s heart
was failing. An ambulance transported him to Genesys Regional
Medical Center at Health Park where the heart team in the cardiac
catheterization lab was waiting for him. “I was told I wasn’t going
home,” John recalls.
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| Ski patroller finds outstanding care at
Genesys |
 Excited about the opportunity for Mt. Holly ski
patrollers to strengthen their working relationship with Genesys emergency
department physicians, Rich Hanson didn’t expect this would
include a true hands on experience. A Mt. Holly ski patroller, Orion
Township firefighter and paramedic, and EMT instructor, Rich can
laugh now about how he saw the innerworkings of the Genesys emergency
department team after a trauma on the ski slopes. Nine days after
he shadowed emergency medicine physicians, he became one of the
casualties he ships off to the hospital.
While on duty at
Mt. Holly, Rich was hit from behind by an out of control skier.
“I’ve been a skier most of my life and this was the worst
injury I ever sustained,” he admits. “I was in awe at the amount of
pain I was feeling. I had an anterior dislocation in my right
shoulder. I fractured it in three places. I heard this was a painful
injury; now I know just how painful.”
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| Back pain gone, active life returns,
thanks to Genesys |
 Owosso resident Mary Ellen
(Lucille) Russell has exercised regularly and rigorously for the past
38 years at a local health club. At age 73, the part-time
hairdresser was determined she would not slow her pace, even when faced
with debilitating back pain.
“I lived in a lot of pain for a
long time,” she notes. Doctors tried medication, physical therapy
and injections in her back, but nothing eased the pain for long.
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