Sarah Buck Davis and her husband, Brock Davis, had planned to add to their family last year.
The Northwest Side couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Sutton, and figured it was a good time to give her a sibling.
But the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March, “threw a wrench into that,” Sarah Davis said.
She had just graduated with her master’s degree, and with the economy tanking in the spring, it took longer than expected to find a job as a nurse practitioner. On top of that were the medical concerns of being pregnant during a pandemic.
“Having a second kid is not cheap, and I also had a lot of anxiety about not knowing if (pregnancy) was safe,” she said. “It just freaked me out. We decided `not now.’”
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Public Service Announcement: Ohio State Study Using Hyperbaric Oxygen To Treat Traumatic Brain Injuries
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children and adults up to age 44. Every 15 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a major traumatic brain injury, and every five minutes someone is forever disabled from traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are conducting an emergency medicine study to identify the best method and concentration of oxygen delivery to patients with severe blunt head trauma to facilitate recovery. All patients will receive standard of care for their TBI in addition to various modes of oxygen concentration and delivery under normal pressure or high pressure (hyperbaric oxygen therapy).
Local Volunteers and Researchers Participate in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Sandra Gurvis
Last summer, when Jan Mader of Clintonville learned that
AventivResearch was looking for volunteers for a COVID-19 study for the Pfizer vaccine, she jumped at the opportunity.
“In early March, before the quarantine lockdown began, my sister caught COVID-19 on a plane coming back from New York City,” she recalls. “She lost her sense of taste and smell and was having trouble breathing. But she didn’t want to leave her animals so she stayed at home [and didn’t go to the hospital].”
Jan, a long-time equestrian, who cares for her horse, Tango, as well as several other pets, could certainly relate. “It was terrifying,” she says of her sister’s ordeal.
OSU Extension: Winter agriculture happenings
Trevor Corboy
With all that is going on with the pandemic, and orders and recommendations in place, I am still not sure about when we will do pesticide recertification for 2021.
I currently have pesticide and fertilizer recertification scheduled for Monday, March 15. The good news is the state legislature passed into law extending the recertification deadline until July 1, so we have time. For those of you who have a license or certificate that expires in 2021, please stay tuned for an email or postcard with all your options. One of those options in addition to an in-person program will be a self-paced online session to get your recertification credit. Cost to attend the self-paced class is $35 for pesticide training and $10 for fertilizer.
OSU Extension: Winter agriculture happenings
Trevor Corboy
With all that is going on with the pandemic, and orders and recommendations in place, I am still not sure about when we will do pesticide recertification for 2021.
I currently have pesticide and fertilizer recertification scheduled for Monday, March 15. The good news is the state legislature passed into law extending the recertification deadline until July 1, so we have time. For those of you who have a license or certificate that expires in 2021, please stay tuned for an email or postcard with all your options. One of those options in addition to an in-person program will be a self-paced online session to get your recertification credit. Cost to attend the self-paced class is $35 for pesticide training and $10 for fertilizer.