Lewis Spence is no stranger to hard work. An active father of five with a passion for fitness and weightlifting, this self-described “Superman” could do just about anything. Unfortunately, a near-fatal motorcycle accident resulting in a traumatic spinal cord injury on April 14, 2020, brought his active lifestyle to a screeching halt. Unable to move […]
Category: Trauma
Markelle Foushee Leaves Work as a CAT Scan Tech and Returns the Same Day as a Patient
For Markelle Foushee, a 33-year-old CAT scan technologist, June 17, 2021 was a typical night shift at the WakeMed Raleigh Campus Emergency Department. She had just finished working and was driving home in the early hours of the morning. Little did she know, she’d leave the hospital as a health care worker and head back […]
Colleen Lorig’s AVM Story
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 was just a typical day for the Lorig household — a dedicated, hardworking military family stationed in North Carolina. Colleen Lorig’s husband, an Army soldier, was preparing for a deployment. As part of that preparation, he left for work at 5:00 a.m. His wife, Colleen, also got up early to help […]
Buckle Up: It’s Time to Talk about Seat Belt Safety.
It’s time for work. You walk out the door balancing your coffee mug in the palm of your hand with your key ring looped around your pinky finger. You unlock your car and climb in while piling all your belongings in the passenger seat. Unconsciously, you reach your right hand over your left shoulder and […]
Crystal Poole: Wife, Mom, Trauma Survivor
Freak accidents — they can happen to anyone at the most unsuspecting moments, and Crystal Poole, unfortunately, is no exception. Due to no fault of her own, she found herself in the wrong place at wrong time. Crystal is a wife, a mom, a graduate student, a resident of Wake County and also a trauma […]
When the Unexpected Happens, WakeMed is There — Robin Bunting’s Story
On Saturday, February 6, Robin Bunting was enjoying a trip to Raleigh, to visit her family for the day. She came to town to help her loved ones settle into a new property they recently purchased. A Sudden Fall Robin was in an outbuilding sorting items to place in the lofts, which involved going up […]
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Tony’s Story
Twenty years ago, Tony Gorham Jr. relocated to North Carolina from New York to earn a degree in sociology and law at East Carolina University. Over those carefree college years, Tony fell in love with the area and decided to become a North Carolina transplant, building a successful career and fathering two precious daughters. A […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.