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NY Volleyball Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Tournament, Community Rallies In Support NY Volleyball Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Tournament, Community Rallies In Support
NY Volleyball Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Tournament, Community Rallies In Support A New York teen is fighting for his life after going into cardiac arrest during a volleyball tournament. The Albany-area athlete, a member of the Capital Region Sliders Volleyball Club, was playing in the Boston Volleyball Festival when he collapsed inside the Boston Convention Center on Friday night, Feb. 21, police told WCVB. Days later, the boy remained hospitalized in critical condition, according to family friend Odette Fung. “A family in my son’s club volleyball team is amid a parent’s worst nightmare,” Fung wrote on a GoFundMe campaign. The boy’s age and hometown were not immediate…

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by Michael Mashburn
News
Mom Of Three ID'd As Second Patient In Critical Condition After Philadelphia Plane Crash Mom Of Three ID'd As Second Patient In Critical Condition After Philadelphia Plane Crash
Mom Of Three ID'd As Second Patient In Critical Condition After Philadelphia Plane Crash A mother of three critically injured in the Jet Rescue Air Ambulance crash in Northeast Philadelphia has been identified as Dominique Goods-Burke, her family said. Dominique, a Day Bake Supervisor at High Point Cafe, was with her family at Macy’s in Roosevelt Mall on Friday, Jan. 31, when the medical jet crashed into the area, causing her car to catch fire. Fighting To Recover Dominique remains in critical condition but is responding well to treatment, her family said. Her recovery is expected to be long and challenging. Her employer, High Point Cafe, shared their support for Dominique…

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by Jillian Pikora
Lifestyle
Massapequa Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack Massapequa Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack
Massapequa Mom Credits ‘Thick Thighs' For Saving Life After Vicious Dog Attack 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
Lifestyle
Support Swells For LI Mom, Healthcare Worker Facing 'Grueling' Cancer Battle Support Swells For LI Mom, Healthcare Worker Facing 'Grueling' Cancer Battle
Support Swells For LI 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