At age nine months, John “Win” Melvin loved swings, dropping things into buckets, and bathtime! Lovingly referred to as Win (short for his middle name, Winifred, a family name), the little boy kept his parents, Rory and Mimi, hopping – and they...
From the outside, anyone would think Bethany Blonder is a typical 12-year-old: she loves swimming, playing with her brother, Dylan, and their dog, Bailey, hanging out with her friends, and playing video games. In fact, Bethany is anything but...
Joyce Carpati knew as soon as it happened that this was no ordinary fall. Of course, she is no ordinary 85-year-old, either: Beauty maven, fashionista, singer, longtime staffer at Cosmopolitan magazine and friend of Helen Gurley Brown, Joyce had...
Cole Sparks was never one to complain. The active 12-year-old Long Island boy lived and breathed lacrosse, and his hard work had earned him a place on the local youth travel team. His proud parents, Chris and Marisa, describe him as “stoic,...
Sujin Jeong and her husband, Daeho Lee were living in New York and raising their two children, Theodore, 6, and Sophia, then three months old. It was a sunny April day when Sujin first thought that something was wrong.
To say it was a bad trip would be an understatement. Adam Carroll, 33, was in New York on business when he suddenly lost consciousness. “I was rushed to hospital—and not sure what happened,” he recalls, “but I woke up surrounded by paramedics.”...
Mikal Scott never got headaches. Ever. They wouldn’t dare to intrude on his organized, high-powered life as a creative problem solver and competitive runner. His clients included several international companies, so he traveled for work as well as...
Joe and Christine Pecoraro write about their son Caleb, who underwent surgery with Dr. Greenfield for basilar invagination and Chiari malformation.
The pain is often unpredictable and severe. The diagnosis can be elusive. Some call it the “suicide disease” and Kristin L. Fletcher knows why: “You can’t live with the pain trigeminal neuralgia brings.”But the 66-year-old retired attorney from...
When you yourself are a doctor, where do you turn when you’re the patient? Who do you trust to take care of you? That was the question recently faced by Dr. Nicola Nasser, an oncologist who lives and works in the Bronx, New York. For Dr. Nasser the...
