Lauren Knox was 15 years old when a car accident changed her life. She was riding with a friend down a large hill near her Northeastside home when the car ran off the road on an s-curve and rammed a fence. The car continued moving, and 35 feet of fence post came crashing into the passenger side, where Lauren was sitting. It crushed the side of her skull, jaw and one cheek, and she was near death w

Like a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, Dorothy Saatkamp teaches children of all ages and abilities. But she doesn't teach in a school -- she teaches at Methodist Hospital, where she specializes in pediatric rehabilitation. For school-age children recovering from an injury or illness that affects their neurological systems, Saatkamp becomes their teacher. "Most of our patients have been in an au

Not slowed by new kidney, local nurse works with heart transplant patients. Lynn Kempf lives each day knowing that her body may reject one of her kidneys and she may die. She takes steroids three times a week to ensure that her body continues to accept the kidney she received more than 18 years ago from her sister. Knowing that possibility has never slowed Kempf down. The 39-year-old nurse le

Every teen has concerns. A date for prom or a slipping grade-point average may be the main causes of anxiety for some, but for others the desperate need for an organ transplant supersedes all other worries. Brett Hardebeck and Nick and Erica Herran are transplant recipients. All three have had to deal with failing kidneys and received kidney transplants before age 10. Brett lives in Batesville and

Most people are born with all five senses -- sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing -- although somehow people deprived of one or two of these senses manage to survive and thrive. The rest of us often take these senses for granted. What does it really mean to see or hear? The ability to hear, for example, is very complicated. By definition, it is the ability to perceive sounds through stimulation