http://www.wvec.com/blogs/profiles/barrett.js: November 2007 Archives
5:39 PM Tue, Nov 27, 2007 | Permalink
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So I asked longtime acquaintances and cancer survivors Roger and Kathy Cawthon of Hampton, VA, "Once you both survived cancer, why did you start the Cancer Crusade instead of putting the disease behind you and moving on to something else?"
Kathy teared up. Roger was silent. I had caught this funny, upbeat pair, always ready with a quip, off guard. But only for a sec.
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5:53 PM Mon, Nov 26, 2007 | Permalink
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Every day brings more e-mails from people moved by our report on MRSA. I appreciate the notes of thanks and the feedback. It appears that an awful lot of people know and care for Margo.
I've also heard from another family suffering with MRSA acquired in a local hospital. I'm not ready to publish that e-mail, however, until I look further into the situation.
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5:57 PM Wed, Nov 21, 2007 | Permalink
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The other day I reported on a new state law that is to go into effect in 2008 that suggests hospitals voluntarily report infection rate data to the state Board of Health. Most of the responses aren't about laws or infections, they're about the patient in the story who barely survived and who is in a wheechair, paralyzed, because of the MRSA infection that ravaged her body.
We didn't plan the report to air the week of Thanksgiv...
7:34 PM Mon, Nov 19, 2007 | Permalink
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A report I aired tonight on health care associated infections featured a Virginia Beach couple, the Bavrys. As is often the case, there's a lot more to the story than we can fit into the time allotted for a TV news report.
Margo was a homemaker in Virginia Beach who was very involved in her church, her friends and her quilting group. Larry was a systems engineer with Northrup Grumman, I think he told me, and the group he worked for di...
