Out of the blue one night, 68-year-old heavy metal bass guitarist Sal Italiano went into cardiac arrest after going to bed in his Deerfield Beach home.
Hyvelle Ferguson-Davis had a slight headache when she was at work one day in January 2014. As the pain grew stronger, she started having blurred vision, so she decided to head home.
In 2020, Nancy Smith found a small lump in her breast while doing a regular self-exam. While the chef and mother of five wasn’t too worried, she knew she needed to get tested.
In early 2021, David Feinberg developed jaundice. The medical condition, which causes skin or the whites of eyes to turn yellow, sent him to the Emergency Department at Broward Health Medical Center. It was there that he learned jaundice can be a sign of cancer.
Amanda Aiello was just 10 years old when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of blood cancer. “It was the worst news that a parent could hear,” said Shannon Aiello, Amanda’s mother.
Dylan Lindsey, who was in kindergarten at the time, had sniffles and other symptoms of a cold that wouldn’t wane despite repeated trips to the pediatrician. “He wasn’t eating, and his teacher sent notes home that he was sleeping in class, which was not normal for Dylan,” said his mother, Katrice Eason.