A year ago, he and his wife, Larisa, shared their expectations for 2020.
“Hers was that there would be a lot of change and it would be a busy, stressful year, but you’re going to overcome it,” he said. “And mine was that it was going to be a year of healing.”
His voice is quiet and raspy, a vestige of him spending more than four months on a ventilator after undergoing a heart and double-lung transplant in June, followed by near-fatal complications.
“We look back now, and we’re like, Thank you, Lord,’” he said, sitting in the living room of his parents’ home in Hilliard. “I got the healing part, I just didn’t think it would take a year.”
Updated: 9:47 AM EST January 2, 2021
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio A driver is in critical condition after crashing a car in Clinton Township Saturday morning.
The Franklin County Sheriffs Office said the driver crashed into an unoccupied parked van at around 4 a.m. while traveling west on Lehner Road near Manor Road.
The driver was taken to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
There was no one else in the car.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Franklin County Sheriff s Office at 614-525-6113.
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The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 1,891 new cases of the coronavirus and 24 deaths on Saturday.
Cases over the last 30 days have continued to hover around the 2,000 mark or higher as the holiday season continues.
Health experts have warned they expect the number of cases and deaths to continue to climb following the Christmas and New Year s holiday season. It takes anywhere from two to 14 days for symptoms to appear after exposure, health experts have said.
With the calendar finally turned over on 2020, Allison Richmond-Leeth wishes she could feel more excited to start fresh in a new year.
However, she admits she’s a bit nervous about all the uncertainty about the pandemic, her career, her artwork that still looms.
To combat that anxiety, the 25-year-old Downtown resident wrote down a list of New Year’s resolutions to help her continue to grow the art business, Soft Peach Designs, she’s focused on the past 10 months since being laid off from her event-planning job in March.
“If you’re having trouble focusing on things, having goals can help you focus in all aspects of life,” Richmond-Leeth said. “You can look back and see, ‘Oh, this is what I want to do,’ and you can do it today or next week, however long it takes you to do.”
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