Push Through By Debra Zacher Amy Carreira, a Raleigh resident and five-time half-marathon and four-time marathon finisher, knew something was amiss. She wasn’t sleeping well and hadn’t felt good for weeks. But the last thing Amy thought she would hear after a trip to the emergency room in
How to Become a Lifelong Athlete and Pursue an Epic Climbing Adventure By Greg McElveen, MS, MBA, CSCS Jan Croft is a caring person, so 18 years ago, when her mother suffered a stroke and needed someone to provide and care for her, Jan left her
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In January 2008, 17-year-old Ethan Aliff was watching a video. It wasn’t VH1’s top video of the month– Alicia Key’s No One, but a video about the double lumen catheter a surgeon would implant in his chest. It had been just two days since a devastating diagnosis of
The Challenge of Starting By Molly Barker Why does starting something often feel like such a challenge? Why is “the beginning” always so daunting? I practice yoga almost five days a week. I’m a recent yoga convert, having been a runner for most of my life up until about
Wheel Power: Pedaling 3,600 Miles in 66 Days By Dianne Shaw June 2010 brought not the usual summer job or trip to the coast or the mountains for 15 young men from Chapel Hill. Instead, they cycled “sea to shining sea”: Aberdeen, MD, to Anacortes, WA, covering 3,600
Program Helps Therapist Help Herself By Ellen de Graffenreid Laura DeLoye is a music therapist and a truly positive person. Her soft-spoken manner and ready laugh exude genuine warmth and interest in others. She was 35 when she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of
Cancer Comebacks - Get REAL & Heel By Ellen de Graffenreid Last year, the American College of Sports Medicine issued guidelines confirming what UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center members Diane Groff, EdD, and Claudio Battaglini, PhD have been saying for several years – exercise, physical activity and recreational
By Ellen de Graffenreid Billy Kim, MD, got an email letting him know that UNC Lineberger will benefit from the 2011 Wachovia Tar Heel 10-miler and he didn’t hesitate for a minute, “I signed up right away.” A doctor in the genito-urinary cancer program at UNC and a laboratory
By LaGena Lookabill Greene I grew up in a close-knit family in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was a cheerleader, competed in gymnastics, and attended UNC–Chapel Hill on an academic scholarship. I was on a successful career path when I was devastated to learn that I had been infected