Jill Heffernan imagines her bike tire going flat or a shoe coming untied mid-race. Half marathoner Julie Barth is a “bit nervous” about adding a 12-mile bike ride to her race-day routine. And Margarita Martin? She’s more excited than jittery—she’s…
Nervous about being able to fall asleep during your sleep study? You’re not alone! But Kaye Liles, manager of the Memorial Medical Center and SIU School of Medicine’s Sleep Disorders Center is confident that a sleep study is nothing to,…
Statistics don’t lie. According to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, more than 37,000 suicides and hundreds of thousands of suicide attempts happen every year. The topic is rarely talked about, but the issue affects many people. World Suicide Prevention Day…
You’ve likely never heard of it, but chances are, you know someone suffering from it. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is a medical condition that affects 50 percent of men 50 years and older. It’s embarrassing, uncomfortable and not something you…
Mike Dulakis was progressing through his normal workout Feb. 3 at Taylorville’s Lock Up Gym, lifting weights from a seated position, when everything changed. The 39-year-old guard for the Taylorville Correctional Facility was “training to failure,” a common weight-lifting strategy.…
Christina Nation knew she could face her battle with breast cancer. She had already endured the most difficult thing a mother or father could face—the death of a child. Certain moments in our lives are so earth-shattering, whether the news…
Wilma Fricke loves Memorial Medical Center and always has—from the time she started at Memorial as a nurse in 1947, to her retirement in 1990, to her “second career” as a volunteer beginning in 2000. During her work as head…
We hear it every day—work-life balance. But what is it? It’s defined as a state of equilibrium between an employee’s primary priorities of their job and their private life. In today’s busy world where most people are juggling a career…
It’s a moment 18 years in the making—sending your child off to college with all the emotions at full throttle. Joy! Sadness! Excitement! Fear! So much to do—so little time! Cynthia Mester, PhD, LCPC with Memorial Behavioral Health, offers one…
No matter how old you grow, no matter how bad the news, Mom and Dad always know just what to say. When Becca Moots heard her doctor tell her in 2007 that she had breast cancer, all she could think…