Kelly Stogner
A single mom lives to raise her child. A man gets to live pain free and play with his grandchildren. Organ donors in Bloomington-Normal made it possible.
Doctors often procure organs from people who have just died. Sometimes though, the donors get to see the lives they touch.
April Post of Normal is one of those lives. She is a busy single mom who is living her best life a life made possible due to a kidney transplant she received through organ donor Kelly Stogner at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in December 2019.
“Of course, when I woke up I was groggy and in pain, but I had so much energy. I just felt energized when I woke up and I was so hungry. When I was on dialysis I had no appetite, so when I woke up I ordered food right away,” said Post.
Kelly Stogner
Originally published on April 19, 2021 11:03 am
A single mom lives to raise her child. A man gets to live pain free and play with grandchildren. Organ donors in Bloomington-Normal made it possible.
Doctors often procure organs from people who have just died. Sometimes though, the donors get to see the lives they touch.
April Post of Normal is one of those lives. She is a busy single mom who is living her best life a life made possible due to a kidney transplant she received through organ donor Kelly Stogner at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in December 2019.
BARTONVILLE A Peoria man died Friday after a head-on wreck on U.S. Route 24, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said.
Christopher L. Coleman, 47, was driving a midsize sedan westbound on Route 24 near West Pfeiffer Road when he crossed the center line about 5:45 a.m., Harwood said. The sedan hit an eastbound truck head-on, causing the car to roll multiple times, Harwood said.
Coleman was taken to OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in critical condition. Despite aggressive resuscitative efforts, he was pronounced dead at 6:39 a.m., Harwood said. The cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma injuries, Harwood said.
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What that commercial development might entail or when it might take place isn’t certain.
The East Bluff block is bounded by Knoxville Avenue on the west, Dechman Avenue on the east, Illinois Avenue on the north and Pennsylvania Avenue on the south.
“It’s big enough that it could be multiple uses,” said Michael Seghetti, a Peoria attorney who represents a local firm that has a contract to purchase all of it.
Among properties on that block are a former hotel and a former gasoline station, both of which face Knoxville Avenue. Neither facility is in use.
Residences occupy the northeast quadrant of the block. That area is in line to be rezoned from multi-family residential to general commercial. The latter zoning matches the rest of the block.