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Stories of Hope

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    We have two daughters, Kayla and Kaitlyn. We love [music] to go hiking. We love to go golfing.
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    We do try to spend as much quality time as we can with our family. And just even dayto-day, you know, we try to enjoy [music] oursel, not work too hard. I go
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    to my mom for everything. Um, and I don't I'll never [music] stop going to my mom. She's like my go-to person. I
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    can imagine not having a mom who guides me through [music] life, but then a best friend who listens through everything as well.
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    January 19th, we were working out at Transformations Hawaiʻi. We did our whole workout. I decided I was going to leave.
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    I had to go to work. [music] And I remember telling Susie, "Oh, we have time for one more exercise." And then her friend had called me and
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    she's like, "You need to come back. Your mom collapsed." So I parked and I got out and people were just freaking out like your mom is not breathing [music] and someone was doing CPR in her and
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    they were trying the AED and then it took maybe 15 20 minutes for the ambulance to come. That's I think [music] the moment that I thought I'm not sure if I'm going to have my mom.
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    Wendy came in in an emergency [music] situation after cardiac arrest. our emergency room physician and team performed CPR for her, getting her
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    stable enough to move to the next phase, which was to [music] the cardiac cath lab.
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    When it really hit me was when the nurses and the doctor came out to talk to us and said that [music] um how long
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    she was out and also that she had got into cardiac arrest again in the angio lab. Then I knew it [music] was really
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    bad. We're all sitting on the bench all together and just kind of holding our breath waiting for an [music] update because she was just so unstable at that point.
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    That's when we decided to stabilize her by putting in a heart pump called an Impella.
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    She had the pump in, [music] but it was looking like it wasn't going to be enough support for her. And so there was a high likelihood of her not
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    being able to recover. [music] So I was able to reach out to one of our trusted partners, Job Benoff Medical Center, so she could get to that center [music] for further treatment should she need it.
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    She was very, very unstable and pretty much maxed out on all the medical therapy. [music] The ICU team overnight really had to work very hard to resuscitate her.
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    So if she got worse, we could put her on ECMO. If and when she needed a defibrillator, we could take care of that as well. essentially whatever she needed we could provide her.
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    I [music] was just there like she needs to make it because I just could never imagine going through life without her.
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    The morning that I walked in and as soon as I saw her echo with her heart function you know 50% [music] I knew we were going to be okay.
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    Biggest thing after cardiac arrest is like [music] is the patient going to wake up? You know did they have any anoxic brain damage or anything? So when they start to write is huge uplifting
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    off of you and that was the biggest relief for us you [music] know that she could communicate and she was thinking
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    Stan was just a wonderful nurse that we had. I feel like we hadn't smiled that much until we got to have him as a nurse and we were so lucky to have him.
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    Just to hear that I made a difference.
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    It's really good to hear these [music] types of story. It makes me want to keep going. We don't see something like this
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    every day where a perfectly healthy woman [music] arrests at the gym and is able to come out of it.
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    It's vital that we have partners here in Hawaiʻi [music] that have those options for our patients so that they can get the care they need
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    and for their workup so that they survive.
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    We just feel [music] really fortunate and blessed that that was my chain of survival. It was very critical, [music] but every single link is why I'm here today.
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    I'm proud she's able [music] to go back to her normal activities. She's traveling, exercising, you know, back to
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    her everyday life. [music] She's doing so well because of all the care that she has received. We have so many more years [music] to enjoy herself.
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    Taking care of your family, spending time with your family, these are the most important things in life.

    One moment Wendy Yamada was powering through her workout. Then, everything changed. Despite leading a healthy, active life, Wendy experienced cardiac arrest. Discover how the extraordinary, coordinated teamwork from Hilo Benioff Medical Center and Straub Benioff Medical Center turned a terrifying emergency into an incredible story of survival.

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    my husband lives breathes everything wrestling my dad is always in my corner
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    and he's like the backbone of my life so last year we were at the
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    hhsaa State Wrestling Championships Anella did good she took fifth last year a week after I started not feeling well
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    he was just sitting there like really shallow breathing and I said you sure you don't want to go to
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    the emergency room when I'm sick I don't go you know I just try and kick it right try to get rid of it by myself he was
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    like yeah I'll just wait till tomorrow to go to the doctor I was like Dad you're not going to make it till tomorrow like I had to be straight up at that point is when you did say okay
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    let's go Pat presented to poomi as it turns out had Co pneumonia uh and he relatively quickly uh developed
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    respiratory distress the following morning I got a call it was the hospitalist and he said your husband's
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    heart function is 10% he said he can expire at any time
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    and your husband is actually the sickest man in the state right now
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    we have something called extracoporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO for short this is a a life-saving procedure done
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    for the most critically ill patients the risks are 30 to 50% survival rate I
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    remember um my mother-in-law saying noi if this is our last chance and our last resort to save Pat's life
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    we got to do it now the ecos Center for Hawaiʻi Pacific health is stra but recently within uh the past year we've
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    learned how to safely move patients throughout the system myself as well as our cardiac calf lab team we here to do
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    the implant of the canulas and get them stabilized enough to transport to straw where he had further
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    care every day at straw was touch and goal we were prepared for this moment
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    and as sick as he was I firmly believe you know that our team gives the best care our whole team consists of the
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    cardiologists we got our specialist consisting of the labs x-ray we got everybody every day we went down on how
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    much the machine was supporting his body to test him in a way to see if his own heart and his lungs could take over and
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    because he was covid positive I couldn't be in the room the only way I could communicate with him was through my cell phone they suggest him being in the coma
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    and being able to hear my voice would be helpful for his healing and for his
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    recovery Pat began to gradually improve the eemo machine allowing us to rest his heart and rest his lungs uh his heart
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    function gradually recovered from 10% all the way up to 35% guess waking up that first day from
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    the coma I couldn't see nothing yet but just hearing his voice and and seeing him up was such a huge huge
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    relief the thing that really impresses me is how our team from multiple different hospitals were able to come
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    together in a seamless fashion from the beginning at poomi all the way to when he was discharged from the third floor
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    this is our why this is completely why we do what we do you know Pat means a lot to everybody you know being a part
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    of something like that that we can offer um I I can't even find the the right
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    words to explain I look back knowing that I am one I was one of the luckiest
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    guys alive being able to watch Anella wrestle and this year taking second in States
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    just being alive and experiencing family and friends when I saw my dad dad I was like
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    my dad's with me like just being able to know that he was there I want to do this for my dad

    Pat Hokoana lives a healthy lifestyle. Pat is seen by his family as a protector, and his passion for wrestling inspired his six children to pursue the sport. That’s why it came as a surprise when, on March 3, 2023, Pat fell very ill and left work early. He developed a bad cough and struggled to breathe. Two days later, his wife, Noe, and their 15-year-old daughter, Anela, noticed Pat gasping for air. After being rushed to the Emergency Department at Pali Momi Medical Center, Pat's care team labeled him as the "sickest man in the state." 

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    I have been very healthy ever since uh I was born
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    2023 when my doctor said I have a I was in shock I first saw Chong when she
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    found out that she had atop fibrilation she was told that she needed to take medications to prevent a stroke but she
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    was really concerned about that I was prescribed blood thinner and uh that was shocking to me I felt
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    the side effects of medication is really detrimental and it could be fatal we talked about the Watchman procedure and
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    felt like it was the right choice for her so the beauty of the left atrium page closure The Watchman procedure is you do not have to take strong blood
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    thinners for the rest of your life and that has multiple different impacts not only medical impact but also financial and social impact too if you imagine a
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    elderly lady they end up falling having strong blood thiner in their body can lead to catastrophic consequences with
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    internal and external bleeding I was just so happy to find this surgery
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    because people especially live in Hawaiʻi we don't have to go to Mainland just do it
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    here so the beauty of Watchman is a minimally invasive procedure where we don't cut anything we just use needles and tubes and nowadays it's thought to
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    be great than 99% success rate we thread the Watchman device from your leg up into your heart basically we're putting
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    this device in to seal it off from the rest of the heart so blood clots can't form in there if we do that then people are protected from having a stroke or a
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    blood clot go to the brain they usually go home the same day and the recovery is about a week and they're back to their
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    normal lives after that after surgery I felt totally recovered and the week after
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    is it real did I really have a surgery to care for those type of patients to see their happy faces really makes our
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    day when we perform these type of procedures now I'm more energetic I got a new
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    opportunity and when I'm with my grandchildren I can do things with them and I can hike with them if they want to
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    go to swimming I really am thankful to stra V Medical Center now that we've
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    completed 1,000 Tav procedures and 500 Watchman procedures I think it's just a
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    reflection of how much our heart program at stra benof Medical Center and hoi Pacific Health has grown over the years
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    our ability to reach more people in Hawaiʻi and offer these wonderful therapies for their heart conditions

    Chung Lucky has always been healthy. Which is why when, at age 79, she began experiencing dizzy spells and an irregular heartbeat, she immediately called her doctor to get to the root of the problem. Chung was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (A-fib), a heart condition that causes irregular heart rate and poor blood flow. Not wanting to be on lifelong medication, she did her research and discovered the WATCHMAN procedure. She underwent surgery in August 2024. A month later, Cardiac Electrophysicist Dr. Jeremy Lum performed the 500th implant of the device at Straub Benioff Medical Center. 

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    ever since the time that I was 10 I just knew what I was going to do on flying Fighters I flew about 10 years after duty with
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    the Marines flying f-18s eventually I met my wife Jessica and we had our first son Bodhi 20 months later we had our
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    Second Son Tobias what's harder flying fire jets or raising two boys by far it's raising two
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    boys he's really good with kids he makes obstacle courses he plays games with them and he's wonderful with them they can't wait for Dad to come home it would
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    be impossible without him I couldn't fathom I can't beat with them
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    well I was uh going back for another work block flying with the airline and I was in Guam kind of felt a little bit
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    paying the chest area so I didn't know if it was being a pilot concerned about trapped air but I went into the ER in
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    Guam they did a CT doctor came out she's like uh no trapped air issues or those type of things but we did find a two
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    centimeter Masten or upper right law you know you don't know and your mind naturally goes to the worst case
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    scenario of cancer knowing that the potential of your children's father's health is in Jeopardy is really
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    scary flying back uh just thinking about the only song we had at the time was Voting he was two years old and we had
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    another one on the way Aaron met with me and we ordered a repeat CT and that showed What's called
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    the ground glass nodule you always worry about malignancy but Aaron was only 48
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    years old and a never smoker so it would be pretty unusual to have a lung cancer in that setting it's not showing up
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    necessarily as lung cancer so we're continuing the monitoring program six to nine months with the CT scans we had a negative pet scan we had
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    a negative bronchoscopy yet with each six-month CT on follow-up the thing continued to not only be present but
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    grow a little bit even if that growth was minimal it still concerned us as we started getting closer towards an xct
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    scan it was basically writing the heat of the pandemic it's the peak of covid and nobody wants to come into the health
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    care setting we just had a heart-to-heart discussion that you do for this follow-up scan it's important that we stay on top of this and we need
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    to get the scan and dude yeah I'm being so thorough and recommending I'm like okay we need to get this looked at unfortunately this time the results came
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    back it has a growth of about 30 percent we followed that up with a CT guided
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    biopsy and that is where the diagnosis of lung cancer came
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    knowing the potential of what can happen is really scary and the idea of him not
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    being around to be a dad and to see his kids wasn't hard once it settled in with the reality of
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    what where we're at my first thoughts are basically I'm going to have to try fighting this as best I can well era is excellent surgical candidate
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    he was very healthy active the surgery was successful without complication 12 additional lymph nodes were taken and
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    all were negative for spread of the tumor and so he was pretty much back to his usual activities within two to three
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    months he was spared what many other cancer
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    patients have to go through and we owe that to Dr Evans being on top of it and being proactive and monitoring this
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    regularly and making sure he had got his scans I'm proud of this case and that we didn't just assume this was all benign
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    you have to stay on top of it and stay vigilant until you know what it is so important to get this early detection
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    this is how people can survive and have a quality of life and be with their families

    A fighter pilot with the Hawaiʻi Air National Guard, Aaron Keenan was committed to an active, healthy lifestyle, and never smoked a cigarette in his life. When a CT scan at Straub Benioff Medical Center revealed Aaron had stage 1A3 lung cancer, he and his young family were caught completely by surprise. Watch the video to learn more about Aaron’s inspiring story and find out how he’s doing today.

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    if I had to describe Lizzy in one word it would be a giver every time I needed help I could always count on her
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    I got into the fire service about 12 years ago fire service was something that was really neat in our community
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    small stations lightly manned I thought I could make a difference I've been doing this for a lot of years and you don't really think about the
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    dangers I think you train hard you work harder and you trust each other but accidents do happen
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    my accident happened on September 3rd 2021 and Ron which has been my captain on and off for many years he sings Happy Birthday to me as we're coming down the
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    poly I'll never forget that day it's locked in my memory as a few other events in my life have been so the fire
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    that happened down there had actually been burning for probably about three four months already there was no indication above ground that the fire
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    had been burning you know just on occasion the fire would start we were pulling hoes out to this fire and it was under control very quickly captain keavi
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    and I noticed a small flare-up as we were walking along suddenly I dropped just like it was a trapdoor
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    I knew that I was in trouble I had no control over getting out I couldn't use my hands to get out the ground was too hot it was too high
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    for me to reach and lift myself out of I screamed for him to help me he was right there on me faster than within 40 seconds I was out
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    this guy is a hero and he had her on his back and he had a little problem where he sank into this
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    sand you couldn't see these areas and were there more of them we didn't know so he was able to back out and sort of
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    reroute us around it I recognized Captain Kiana and then when he turned I saw Liz's face she looked at me and I
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    was like oh no it's this I didn't realize honestly how severe my Burns were I could see it in the faces of everybody else though maybe about five
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    seconds after I checked her out and saw how serious the injuries were I said you know we got to get you this job that she had deep burns possibly full
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    thickness of her right leg full thickness Burns means that the skin is burned to a level that it cannot
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    regenerate or heal itself the next thing I remember is I waking up the next morning and I'm reaching for my legs especially
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    my right leg I didn't know if it was going to be there or not I didn't know if either leg would be there or not and they were both there
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    ultimately she had to have surgery to graft some of the areas on her leg the nurses were very quick to let me know
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    exactly who Dr Schultz was and I could have very well gone to sleep for a couple months and woken up and knowing I would be okay
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    the burn nurses are great because they have to every day get the patient ready to go in and have a fair amount of pain
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    the Burns in a way is sort of a no pain no gain mentality where it's going to hurt and unfortunately we're gonna probably cause you pain when we see you
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    for your exercises and moving but the only reason we're doing it is because in the long run so that you can function and do what you want to do one thing
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    that I love so much about that unit was the honesty I was scared to death I'm a single lady by myself I don't know anybody around me
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    and I was so grateful for every single person that came into contact with me they became family Ohana
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    I was in the burn unit for two months and by the time I left there was a lot of Tears
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    overcome you had an injury like that and having to deal with the pain and the trauma and all that kind of stuff to be challenging it can change people but if
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    anything it changes for the better I feel like I can make a difference to people who've been in the same position that I have been in I'm grateful that
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    I have the strengths to do that and the want to do that foreign

    Lizzy Stabo is a generous person who always thinks of her community. She became a volunteer firefighter at the Na‘alehu Fire Station on Hawaiʻi Island. One day when responding to a call, Lizzy fell into a lava pit that had been camouflaged in dirt. These pits can reach temperatures up to 500 degrees. In a matter of seconds, Lizzy was severely burned from the breastbone down. Lizzy was flown to Straub Benioff Medical Center’s Burn Unit, the only facility of its kind in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Rim. 

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    these people saved my life and they not only saved my life they risked their life
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    i'm alan tashima i received my medical care at straub medical center
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    i felt really weak i couldn't walk i couldn't move they uh gave me that covert test
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    and they said that i have covet and i couldn't believe it paul um the head nurse said i think we're going to put
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    you in um the critical care because i was talking gibberish there was a nurse stationed in my room 24 hours
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    i had so many tubes in me and i said well i guess this is it i'm paul um a resource nurse at straub
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    medical center we had noticed alan having a difficult time getting oxygen even though he was on a high flow nasal cannula
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    he started to become a little bit more hypoxic with low oxygen and getting a little confused ultimately
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    yeah they brought alan down to be closer monitored by the intensive care doctors whenever i had a really tough time
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    breathing i would get oxygen i spent and a half weeks there seeing the same people
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    i got to know them and they're they're all friendly and they gave me um incentive to
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    to try to get better you know being a patient in a cova care unit was very depressing they weren't able to see their friends family
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    they felt like they're on their deathbed um and we were the only ones there to to be with them to support them and try and
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    help them through us for alan i got to spend a lot of time with him in the room because we were his only visitor on a
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    personal level talking about stocks to sports to travel so with alan you know he just responded
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    it makes me feel really good knowing that allen's back to his daily activities and enjoying life
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    when you see all this you just get to appreciate the medical staff at straw so gifting was
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    a way of i could say thank you to each and every one
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    of those people no institution survives on its own
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    you got to have people supporting them that's the key part i wouldn't want to go to another hospital
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    strawberries is my hospital so they'll continue to get my gift
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    Allen is a lifelong patient at Straub Benioff Medical Center but he really felt the impact of his care after a positive COVID-19 test in the Emergency Department. Allen, who is in his late 70s, says he could have never imagined what would happen next – at the start of the pandemic. This is Allen’s story!

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    when i was 16 i had um a mass in my neck got it biopsied and found out that it was stage four
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    hodgkin's i remember going through treatment and just remember thinking to myself i can't wait till this is
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    all done and i never have to do it again when i was done with treatment my doctors nominated me for the make-a-wish
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    and my wish was to come to Hawaiʻi i knew when i got off the plane like that that air of humidity that like
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    hits you in the face i was like i love this 23 moved to maui and life was
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    great everything i wanted everything i dreamed of then when i was 32
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    that's when i got diagnosed with breast cancer it just kind of hit me like i can't
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    believe this is happening again like this isn't supposed to happen again
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    sarah's case is complex because she had a prior malignancy she had hudson's lymphoma
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    the chemotherapy and radiation therapy actually set her up for second cancer one of the differences between being 16 and 32 and i was 16 it
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    was very one and done this is never going to happen again now it's kind of been like a shoot is
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    this like something i'm gonna have to live with for the rest of my life when you have these young adults presenting with second cancers
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    there are many challenges that are not just the treatment itself but it's the emotional and her social network
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    and her support system all gets challenged all at once i just got with my boyfriend his name is
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    eric we'd only been dating for a couple months like man i'm just in this new relationship and
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    how do i tell him and she had multiple cancers in the left breast and they were growing fairly quickly and she had to make a
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    quick decision and she decided to just go forward with therapy that was probably one of the harder decisions she had to make one of the things that was really
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    important is not only to treat the cancer but to be as minimally invasive as possible and leave her with the best result possible
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    so right away we involved medical oncology to talk about the role of chemotherapy but also plastic surgery
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    it was my job when i met sarah to have her understand the reconstructive process it is a little scary because we are removing both breasts
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    but if she trusts us we usually get her through the process with really good success i just feel so lucky to have gotten
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    referred to dr okazaki dr peterson and dr cho i just i felt if i had to go through this they were
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    the best doctors to have sarah was treated with pretty intensive chemotherapy
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    and radiation therapy once i i went through each step of the way it was like kind of
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    like okay check moving forward check okay that's done moving forward sarah has recovered
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    completely from her treatments fortunately and it's wonderful to see her strength and vitality come back in a short period of time i've
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    been cancer-free for five years it'll be six years in february i'm still with the same boyfriend he was amazing throughout the whole
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    thing he was right there because i'm a cancer survivor one of the ways i love to give back
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    is by doing camp nui nui which is a camp for children with cancer when kids see that i have you know the
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    same little scar that they do you know they it gives them hope you know i want to be
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    there to help them

    When Sarah was diagnosed with cancer at 32 for the second time, she couldn’t believe it was happening again. By focusing on her emotional and social needs as well as her physical health care, her team of physicians on Maui and Oʻahu gave her the chance to live her life again and the opportunity to give back by working with kids going through cancer care.

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    at times I think people are taking for
    granted that the things you're doing now
    without any physical problems you know
    you just take it for granted you just go
    on and do it but one day you wake up and
    somebody says you know we're gonna take
    this away from you now what are you
    gonna do and that's how I was I used to
    race in open ocean kayaks the
    bodyboarding snowboarding love that so
    life was good at that time but like
    anything else my physical problems you
    started getting worse and worse I get
    this shortness of breath and I just have
    to stop having manage Duane for a year
    or so we realized that we really had
    exhausted the treatment options for him
    he was on the best therapies that were
    available for his condition he has COPD
    that stands for chronic obstructive
    pulmonary disease and he really was very
    limited in the sense that he could not
    do the activities that he enjoyed which
    specifically was snowboarding my goal
    was to try to see if I could find some
    way to get him back to that activity
    what is the standard procedure now which
    was surgically removing the portion of
    the loan that was not functional and
    that kind of scares you and another
    option came up which is the and their
    bronchial valve implant knowing the fact
    that it was an approved in the United
    States but they came not to my decision
    he had to ask the question do I want to
    do it or not and my position yes I want
    the procedure involves taking a small
    umbrella and inserting this through a
    camera we would go through his mouth
    then we place the small umbrella into
    the breathing tube and what that does is
    actually blocks the air to a portion of
    his lung so the idea is take the Babylon
    and reduce the size of it so now there's
    space for the good lung to work more
    effectively but the other upside is that
    it's reversible so potentially if this
    didn't work for him I could remove it
    unlike surgery where you've taken out
    some of the lung and you can't put that
    back
    at that time we really didn't know if I
    would qualify or not all for the
    manufacture saying okay you're perfect
    Kennedy you know we didn't know that it
    really it does have a fairly small pool
    of patients that qualify for it and
    Wayne fortunately did meet all the
    criteria we have to have realistic
    expectations the purpose of this
    procedure is to improve his exercise
    tolerance meaning that he can do more
    physically than he could before we did
    the implant now it's been over three
    months I feel that this implant has
    helped a lot I can feel the difference
    definitely and getting back to family
    life getting back to my personal life of
    what I want to do is so much better I
    know the Straub lung Center we've
    continued to be the first and many
    different interventions and Wayne's a
    good example of that where we knew this
    technology was coming out and then when
    it came available we actually went ahead
    and did the first case on the west coast
    and in Hawaiʻi when it's one of the
    reasons I actually took a job here three
    and a half years ago was that I knew I
    would be surrounded by professionals and
    administrators that were committed to
    excellence and that could adopt
    technologies quickly and that's
    something that's made it very enjoyable
    to practice here and build something I
    think that's special
    you

    Straub patient Wayne Fujihara grew up in East Oʻahu. He was active his entire life, going to the beach, surfing, paddling, traveling and skiing / snowboarding. Wayne also suffered from COPD, and as the years went by, Wayne found it difficult to continue his lifestyle. He was referred to the Straub Benioff Lung Center where he met Dr. Eric Crawley. Dr. Crawley was the first in Hawaiʻi to do a procedure called Lung Volume Reduction that would help Wayne continue his active lifestyle.

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    so I first started wrestling when I was eight years old me and my sister were fighting over a Hello Kitty pencil my
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    mom bought us for school and when we started grappling my dad noticed that we kind of look like we were wrestling so
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    he started to take us arrests in classes and we loved it and then got interested in other mixed martial arts sports and that's why I joined jiu-jitsu and judo
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    when I entered the Triple Crown one was all boys tournament and I was the only girl and I won that tournament and it
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    was probably the best day of my life when I was nine I've won over 30 national tournaments
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    I am a or time state champion for wrestling I also won a US Open won the
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    World Championships for cadets also for judo and jujitsu I've I won over twenty four national tournaments while I was
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    training for the Olympic Trials I had a tournament which was the US Open during that tournament I took a shot in and that person sports super super hard and
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    I felt my shoulder come out of my socket it just always popped out during practices after that and I told my mom
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    and she was like no I'm gonna take you to the hospital now MRI showed she had what's called the bank heart tear and a
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    Bankart tear is a tear of the labrum which allows the shoulder to dislocate it got to the point where she can no longer rely upon that arm for her
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    wrestling moves and she was deeply hindered when I asked him to examine my shoulder he said I'm telling you you
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    need surgery but I'm gonna give you a second opinion and he brought his coworker in who also specializes in shoulder just for the purpose of
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    deciding what was best for two Shia not what was best for dr. Walden's record or his perceptions the family discussed it
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    got second opinions and decided to have surgery my dream basically into somebody else's
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    hand so I really really had to trust him and that's what they did I gave him basically my dream and he did what he's
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    really good at what I told her it's five times a day stretching and following intense strengthening regimen for the
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    next six weeks she took to that very well did everything I asked her to do and when I saw her at the three-month
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    mark she had already become strong again and her range of motion was perfect I kind of saw the old society Octus where
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    she can just get after it and not have anything holding her back what we try to do here at Straub was to create a sub
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    specialized orthopedic practice I do shoulder and elbow work and that's all that I do in my elective practice and she benefited from that because the
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    surgery that she had is a difficult surgery and the more you do that sort of surgery the better you get at it and therefore the better outcomes you can
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    have so for all athletes out there who have a setback I totally recommend straw board and drink because they know what
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    they're doing and I'm talking from experience our partnership in healing came together the way it's supposed to come together I'm supposed to do my job
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    and I did my nursing staff and my therapists are supposed to do their job and they did and the patient is supposed to do their job and obviously - I did
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    and that is a functional partnership and healing and it works and it's the only way to get these excellent outcomes

    After a serious shoulder injury threatened her Olympic dreams, Teshya turned to the experts at Straub Benioff Bone & Joint Center. See how personalized care helped her get back to doing what she loves.

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    I'm Samuel we knowwe I'm 86 years old and I'm a retired federal worker retired
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    after 60 years of government service I have had problems with my heart and it
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    got to a point where I now have seven stents in my heart and I was still
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    having problems with chest pains and shortness of breath and so I ended up at
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    Straub on an emergency basis and that's when we decided that I probably should
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    consider the new TAVR procedure I became the first patient to undergo the TAVR
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    procedure and the new hybrid cath lab that was established at Schwab tower is
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    a way that we can replace someone's aortic valve without open-heart surgery make a quarter-inch incision in the groin right at the crease of the thigh
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    and that allows us to use the body's own plumbing to follow it back to the heart and we can put in a new heart valve that way this technology allows us to treat
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    people who would not have even been considered for treatment in the past because their risk for a traditional open-heart surgery was too high on
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    average people are in the hospital one or two nights out in a case like mystery noise where everything went very smoothly he was out
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    of the procedure room before noon and up in a chair before dinner time my wife really recognized the Chim big change in
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    me after I had that procedure she says my color changed and she didn't see me
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    popping the nitrile pills or going getting out of breath so she was the one
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    that was probably the happiest by me having the procedure done the cardiologists you know he he says I'm the bionic man and I think this
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    absolutely builds on the tradition of excellent heart care that that has been provided here just allows us to continue moving forward at the cutting edge at
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    the leading edge of technology I have to express my gratitude to the Straub donors who just so generously
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    contributed to the establishment of the new hybrid cat lab since that's what
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    made it possible for me to have that the seizure done maybe 10 20 years ago they didn't have this kind of technology
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    right and so I probably wouldn't be alive today
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    Samuel Inoue had a history with heart conditions but when he was experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath, Straub Benioff Medical Center recommended Samuel for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) at Straub Benioff's new hybrid suite. Watch this video to learn about Sam’s story as the first TAVR patient at Straub Benioff, and how donations helped establish this new resource at Straub Benioff.

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