Right: Credit: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong There is an anxiety component, and I know I m depressed, Batka explains, adding that she cries almost daily. She had previously battled anxiety and depression, but having COVID-19 and the stress of living through a pandemic caused these mental health issues to flare. She also has numerous physical symptoms that come and go, including shortness of breath, chest pain, brain fog, and numbness and tingling throughout her body.
Yet thus far, she hasn t been able to find a doctor to help her. Batka says she s more than willing to see a neurologist, cardiologist, and therapist, but that getting appointments with all these providers is going to take months. When she recently asked her internist to get her started on antidepressants (which, unlike Xanax, are not addictive), she was turned down.
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After Gov. Ted Strickland was sworn in as Ohio governor in 2007, Dr. Patricia Gabbe was tapped to work with him and Mayor Andrew Ginther, then a Columbus city councilman, to address the region’s infant mortality crisis. A task force was assembled, a report was completed and then that report got filed away. “We can’t file that away. We’ve got to do something,” Gabbe thought.
The clinical professor of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University had an idea. She’d both help and learn from women in high-crime and high-poverty neighborhoods where infant mortality rates were five times higher than what they should be. Alongside Twinkle Schottke, an infant mental health specialist, Gabbe founded Moms2B in 2010 with a $48,000 grant from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. It started out as a cooking program at a Black church in Weinland Park ne
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The coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe, but some of the temporary side effects can feel pretty rough especially when you get that second dose. Iahn Gonsenhauser, chief patient safety officer at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, described his own experience with “extreme” fever and chills after his second shot so you know what to expect.