Love for Lawson pink yard signs have become a fixture around town and part of a communitywide effort to help Lawson s family.
The Christmas tree, made of strings of pink lights attached to an 8-foot pole, has been in the front yard of Kelly and Jose Juarez s southeast Ocala home since Christmas.
The Juarezes, parents of Lawson s mother, Jessica Armstrong, have been caring for Peyton while her parents stayed at the hospital with her sister. At night Peyton would cry and say, Why is my sister so sick? said Kelly Juarez.
Peyton said she wants the tree to remain up and lighted until Lawson is home and feeling better.
Apr 14, 2021
In a year when covid-19 shattered the pleas of so many who prayed for miracles, a Georgia man with two new lungs is among the fortunate.
Mark Buchanan, of Roopville, received a double-lung transplant in October, nearly three months after covid left him hospitalized and sedated, first on a ventilator and then on the last-resort treatment known as ECMO.
“They said that it had ruined my lungs,” said Buchanan, 53, who was a burly power company lineman when he fell ill. “The vent and the covid ruined ’em completely.”
At the time, only a handful of U.S. hospitals were willing to take a chance on organ transplants to treat the sickest covid patients. Too little was known about the risks of the virus and lasting damage it might cause, let alone whether such patients could survive the surgery. Buchanan was turned down at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to his wife, Melissa, who said doctors advised her to withdraw treatment and allow him to die peace
COVID-19 Update: UF quarantine numbers on- and off-campus drop steadily over week
The quarantine dorms have 3% occupancy as of Tuesday COVID-19 graphic generic Photo by Carley Noll | The Independent Florida Alligator
A week after UF began vaccinating students, faculty and staff ages 16 and older, the university’s COVID-19 isolation numbers steadily decreased. Daily COVID-19 tests have also remained at a seven-day average positivity rate of 1% since March 12.
Since April 5, 20 UF employees and 69 students have tested positive about the same number of employees and half the number of students who tested positive last week.
As of Monday, the university recorded 9,731 total positive tests since it began keeping track last March. This semeste
Calhoun Wolverton, a University of Florida sophomore from Tampa studying finance and accounting, was struck by a vehicle while crossing 13th Street near UF campus late last week, according to police.
Wolverton was rushed by an ambulance early Thursday to the UF Health Shands Hospital ICU and put in a medically induced coma, according to a GoFundMe page set up by Beta Theta Pi fraternity to help cover medical expenses for his family.
Monday afternoon, Wolverton went into surgery for facial reconstruction and an evening update said it went well, according to a the Friends of Calhoun Facebook page set up Saturday by his family for updates.
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