Blog Category: Living Well

In the spring of 2020, Lisa Fry, 54, and a friend were talking about how they were both late in...

Pranee Poyns, 60, is a very busy woman. Luckily, Pranee wasn’t too busy in 2019 to get her regular mammogram screening at the Overlake Breast Health Center because the test revealed an area of concern.

For the past 10 years, Barbara Randazzo Henderson, 52, has made sure to get regular mammograms. After her screening at the Overlake Cancer Center in January 2021, she got a phone call saying she needed a follow-up ultrasound. “It was surprising because I felt so good,” remembers Barbara.

After a thorough examination and a biopsy, her new provider broke the difficult news that Karen had cancer and referred her to an Overlake gynecologic oncology surgeon. “It turns out that I had an extremely rare form of cervical cancer,” says Karen. “There were only 40 other reported cases in the world.

Kim Howard, 68, had just retired and was looking forward to the winter holidays when she saw blood in her urine and promptly went to an urgent care clinic. An ultrasound showed that not only did she have an ovarian tumor, but she also had a pulmonary embolism. It was a shock.

Last year, Kelly Smethurst was having abdominal pains and saw blood in his stool. But he didn’t do anything right away. A married father of two young boys, he was busy with family and his work at Anderson Hay in Ellensburg.

When Graham Wendt, 64, first learned he had elevated PSA levels, he wasn’t concerned. PSAs are “prostate-specific antigens” made by the prostate gland that sometimes indicate cancer.

Kids going back to school in person this fall is both a relief and a source of worry for parents. With the rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, check out ways to prevent the spread of germs and keep yourself and your children healthy.

What your kids do during the night has a huge impact on their daily lives. Sleep plays a key role in mental, physical and emotional health, from infancy through the teen years and beyond.