On Oct. 29, 2022, David Irwin woke up in a hospital, groggy and confused. It was his 39th birthday, but it was clear this was no celebration.
“I looked around and saw nurses everywhere. I asked, ‘Where am I?’” he recalls. “My wife, Andrea, saw me wake up, grabbed my arm and said, ‘David, you’re in the ICU here in Brownsville. You had a seizure.’”
David had spent two days in the hospital, where doctors discovered he had a...
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Jewel Johnson was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in December 2019 at age 57. She’d visited her primary care physician in Houston after feeling a lump in her breast, and the biopsy results confirmed it was cancer.
At the time, Jewel hadn’t heard of triple-negative breast cancer, and she didn’t feel like her physicians were giving her the information she needed.
“I didn’t feel comfortable because I felt rushed...
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