HOMER - What does a pink-haired, tattooed, ear-pierced, outspoken, former hairstylist, current college student, 20-something single mother of twins from the central peninsula have in common with a soft-spoken, married, former nurse, current Homer author with sometimes evident strands of gray hair that hint at her age have in common?Not much unless you're talking about Maggie Winston of Kenai and Marianne Schlegelmilch of Homer. When it comes to these two women, you don't have to look too far beneath the surface to discover a strong connection.
...a few days because I couldn't get used to the beat." Barely a month after the surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Hillman is walking and climbing stairs she would have struggled with before. "She did a flight...
Doug Luna, the former chief justice of the Tlingit and Haida tribes, died Wednesday at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, after a brief hospitalization for heart problems. He was 67. Along with serving on the Tlingit...
...wheeling residents in and out of their rooms. Just a few weeks earlier, Bigelow was a patient at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, recovering from a liver transplant, subsequent infection and the unexpected removal of his colon...
Marna Schwartz joins medical center staff, Patriot Express Loan initiative launched, Forest Service makes timber sale decision, Seafood exports up in Eastern Europe
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...too soon. ``I feel extremely relieved,'' she said this morning from her isolation room at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. ``Two days before the transplant surgery (last Wednesday), my heart was going way too fast...
...14-year-old Juneau transplant candidate Chrysantha Bradley. She went into surgery at 6 this morning at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. The Juneau high-schooler was diagnosed 18 months ago with cardiomyopathy - severe congestive...
...with hepatitis C and cirrhosis. Almost a year later, he was unable to get on a flight to reach the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle fast enough to receive an available liver. Sooter was sentenced in November for driving while intoxicated...
Family memorial services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, with the Rev. Robert Poulson and the Rev. Jerome Cwiklinski officiating. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Sunday at the Tlingit-Haida Community Center.
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