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LI Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack Involving Daughter LI Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack Involving Daughter
LI Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack Involving Daughter Support is swelling for a Long Island mother and author who was seriously injured while saving her daughter from a vicious dog attack. Sarle Jeffries, of Massapequa, described the harrowing ordeal in a GoFundMe campaign. While traveling abroad with her daughters earlier this month, she said she was attacked by a Rottweiler as she shielded her youngest daughter, Veya, who was initially targeted by the dog. “She had to get one stitch after being punctured, but unfortunately, the dog got me and took a chunk out of my leg,” Jeffries wrote. The attack left her with gruesome injuries, including …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Support Swells For Suffolk County Mom, Healthcare Worker Facing 'Grueling' Cancer Battle Support Swells For Suffolk County Mom, Healthcare Worker Facing 'Grueling' Cancer Battle
Support Swells For Suffolk County Mom, Healthcare Worker Facing 'Grueling' Cancer Battle A Long Island healthcare worker and mother of two is finding a swelling of support as she faces the fight of her life. Marian Wynn, age 37, of Farmingville, was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer this past summer. Doctors started her on a “grueling” chemotherapy regimen whose side effects made caring for herself difficult and working impossible, her sister Caitlin Ball said on a GoFundMe. “Since then, she has been fighting every day and spending as much time as she can with her two boys, Liam, 12, and Reyden, 5. She had had some setbacks and a few hospital stays, but overall things were …

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by Michael Mashburn