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'WE'RE FAMILY': Glen Rock Police, Colleagues Rally For Dad Of 6 Fighting Esophageal Cancer 'WE'RE FAMILY': Glen Rock Police, Colleagues Rally For Dad Of 6 Fighting Esophageal Cancer
'WE'RE Family': Glen Rock Police, Colleagues Rally For Dad Of 6 Fighting Esophageal Cancer Glen Rock police are banding with their brothers and sisters in blue in Ridgewood, Franklin Lakes and Ho-Ho-Kus to help a borough family struck by cancer. The esophageal cancer diagnosis came for Bob Allison, a father of six, in July. “The primary tumor was about 4.5 cm,” according to the Glen Rock PBA. “There was a smaller 4 mm tumor in the upper esophagus, and a few cancerous lymph nodes.” Initial chemotherapy rounds weren’t effective. Allison has begun a new chemo treatment, along with radiation, to be followed by surgery in January or February. Glen Rock police are dedicating this y…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition
GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition The family of a year-and-a-half-old baby girl have started a GoFundMe campaign to help defray medical expenses incurred as doctors treat her rare and potentially fatal medical condition.  Sawyer Jane Barrow was born last year with a condition known as vein of Galen malformation, in which veins don't connect to capillaries but directly to the great cerebral vein. The condition leads to an abnormally fast blood flow, which can lead to a variety of problems, including congestive heart failure, brain bleeding and seizures. Vein of Galen malformations are very rare, affecting just 1 in 3 mil…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
YOU CAN HELP: Dumont Teen With Disfigured Face Can't Get Needed Surgery YOU CAN HELP: Dumont Teen With Disfigured Face Can't Get Needed Surgery
YOU CAN Help: Dumont Teen With Disfigured Face Can't Get Needed Surgery It took less than 24 hours for people to open their hearts to Alejandro Arbelaez, a talented Dumont High School senior born without an eye, ear and more. Alejandro has had more than a dozen surgeries to reconstruct the right side of his face after being born with hemifacial microsomia. “This is something I've been dreaming about ever since I was young,” the 18-year-old percussionist said. “I've wanted to have a symmetrical face and I wanted to feel comfortable in my own skin for once.” Unfortunately, what would have been his final surgery was canceled for the third time. “The hospital isn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
USRA Coalition: Doctors To Warn Northern Highlands Parents Of Opioid Danger USRA Coalition: Doctors To Warn Northern Highlands Parents Of Opioid Danger
Usra Coalition: Doctors To Warn Northern Highlands Parents Of Opioid Danger ALLENDALE, N.J. -- Addiction doesn't always begin at a party -- it could start in the family medicine chest. Experts will tell parents what to consider before their teens have surgery or treatment for chronic pain during a "Physician's Perspective on Drugs and Opiods" at Northern Highlands Regional High School later this month. Sponsored by the Upper Saddle River/Allendale Coalition, the boards of health from each town and Hackensack University Medical Center, the free April 25 event features panelists: Michael Kelly, the chairman of orthopedic surgery at Hackensack University M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Neighbors
Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash
Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash DUMONT, N.J. — The community is rallying around Joe Roberto, a beloved bartender at Dumont's Grant Street. On Tuesday morning, Roberto discovered that his niece -- Liz Smith -- had been in a horrible car accident in Antigua.  She was flown via medical transport Tuesday night from Antigua to Florida with two broken arms, a shattered pelvis, broken femur, broken ankle, broken sacrum and other injuries, Roberto said.  Since Wednesday morning, she’s had two -- six hour surgeries repairing her broken bones and is breathing on her own again. "The doctors are saying Liz’s survival is truly …

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by Cecilia Levine