Heart Attack

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center's 12-year-old heart and lung rehabilitation program will be replaced this fall with a new monitored exercise program aimed at serving more people at less cost. The program will be for any patients whose physicians believe their conditions can be helped by a supervised exercise program and have suggested or directed that they participate in such a program. It will be available beginning this fall at the McDowell Wellness Center. The current program has been based at the medical center.

Did you know that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, killing approximately half a million American women each year? Information about how deadly heart disease is has been available for a great many years, but the general population has just recently become more aware of the dangers. For most women, it is difficult to imagine that they are anything less than healthy, choosing to take care of others over themselves. This is one of the reasons that the American Heart Association began the campaign called Go Red for Women nearly nine years ago. The statistics do not lie. More women die of heart disease each year than of any kind of cancer.

Dear Editor, I would like to thank the Danville High School marching band for their hard work and great attitude. I would like to thank the Danville boosters for all their hard work that was seen and not seen. I would also like to thank the parents for their support. Last, but not certainly not least, I would like to thank the Towns family. You poured everything in this season as always, but this year you gave a little more than expected. Marching Admirals, hold your heads high as you walk through the school and this town.

I believe my mom, Brenda Rentas, deserves a little pampering because she has lost more than 250 pounds and looks like a different person. Since she has lost the weight she can do more things and can even get clothes better now. She still has to have surgery to remove the excess fat but even now she looks different. She also deserves some pampering because she is always taking care of someone. My brother got sick in 1998 and had heart failure eight times in two years. He has had surgery about three times.

Deputy jailers did not follow proper protocols before sending 10 prisoners out of the jail for medical treatment, a representative of the jail's contracted health care company told the Clark County Fiscal Court Tuesday. “You've actually had about 10 individuals that the staff did not follow protocols in the evening, that were submitted off-site and sent, not even sure if the doctor was called or not just because there was no protocol to follow this and the rationale behind it,” said Michael Coffey, an expense analyst for Advanced Correctional Healthcare.

February is American Heart Month, and Friday, Feb. 2, is National Wear Red Day. Heart disease is the number one killer of American women, killing one of every three American women. Everyone is encouraged to wear red on Feb. 2 to encourage women to take care of their hearts. Cardiovascular disease is mostly preventable, so understanding these serious health threats can make a lifesaving difference. Much research needs to be done on heart disease in women. But there is valuable information available to you now. It's also available for men and children.

LANCASTER - When Ernest Ames woke up in the hospital, he didn't know what had happened. The last thing he remembered was driving his wife Sue to work along Ky. 34 near the Garrard-Boyle county line. Ernest didn't know he had been out of it for about a week. He didn't remember suffering a massive heart attack and driving into the concrete wall of a bridge. He didn't remember Sue righting the steering wheel and helping to bring the car to a stop. He didn't remember being dead for several minutes.

Howard Watts Cruse, 88, of Winchester, husband of Ollie Wills Cruse for 56 years, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, at the Clark Regional Medical Center Hospice Unit from congestive heart failure. Mr. Cruse was born in Clark County on April 13, 1923, to the late R.L. “Bob” and Katherine Watts Cruse. Mr. Cruse was a World War II veteran having served as a naval medic. He was a member of the Baptist faith, a 38-year employee of South Central Bell Telephone Company and a Telephone Pioneer.

The month of February is American Heart Month and Friday is National Wear Red Day. Heart disease is the number one killer of American women. It kills one of every three American women. If you can't wear red on Friday, everyone is encouraged to wear red on Sunday, Feb. 3, to encourage women to take care of their heart. Cardiovascular disease is mostly preventable, so understanding these serious health threats can make a lifesaving difference. Much research needs to be done on heart disease in women.

LIBERTY - Roger Johnson began his hobby as a toddler painting by numbers and expanded his artistic talent in the years that followed. "Every Christmas, I'd get a half-dozen paint-by-number kits," says Johnson, of Casey County. "As I got older, I saved paint from the kits and began painting on my own. I painted my first picture when I was 16 years old. " He began taking art lessons as a high school junior, then when he got to be a senior, he began doing sculptures, macram and more perspective work.