“It has been a hard road, but it has been the best thing I ever did for myself.” This is how DeAnn Barfuss describes the emotional weight loss journey she...
Miranda was struggling with debilitating depression and suicidal ideation after trying countless treatments and therapy prescribed by her doctor. The team of mental health experts at Huntsman Mental Health Institute...
In September of 2020, Dru Gylten, a University of Utah Women's Basketball player, felt a pinching sensation in her hip and groin area. Thinking it was normal muscle soreness from...
Dori Schmalzle isn’t the kind of person who lets pain stop her. So when the 63-year-old started feeling pain in her right shoulder the fall of 2021, she thought the...
Cali Hinckley should have been quietly asleep in her bedroom, curled next to her 2-year-old daughter that June afternoon. But as her husband watched football downstairs, his phone rang, her...
On a spring evening in 2021, Meaghan McFarland left her apartment in Layton for a walk with her dog. She never saw the Ford F350 speeding toward her at 50...
At first, Tyler Lintz thought he could push through. He was a firefighter after all, a fit, active dad of three, so a sore throat, fatigue, and cough — not...
Cathy Hinshaw, now 76, was no ordinary 1950s girl. She grew up playing not one, not two, but three sports—all incredibly well. At college in California, she joined the basketball...
From a young age, Connor Fields remembers being competitive—very competitive. He played in a lot of team sports as a child growing up in Las Vegas and always wanted to...
Back in 2004, anyone that walked into Randy Oldham's would be met with an unexpected sight: a bed in the middle of his kitchen. While many found it strange, to...
Kelly Carnahan was no stranger to chronic back pain. She'd tried numerous back pain treatments with little to no relief until she underwent spinal cord stimulation. "I can do things...
Spencer Brown had a lot of exciting events coming up in his life—a graduation and a new baby—but things suddenly changed when he suffered a spinal cord injury. Just a...
When 71-year-old Utah native Tom Stover had an aortic aneurysm on January 1, 2021, he had emergency surgery in Washington state, where he lives. After recovering from surgery, Stover received...
At 24 years old, Lala Juarez was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension. With medication, she was able to keep her symptoms from worsening, but a lung transplant was the only...
Ale Zagas sought help from University of Utah Health for skin care treatment. While some might scoff at the idea of a skin care procedure or treatment, Zagas says the...
Stephen Love suffered a massive heart attack in 2016. The incident left him severely injured with poor odds for survival and an uncertain future. His cardiac team determined he would...
When Allie Cochran began experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain, her husband took her to a nearby hospital in Orem. Doctors discovered Cochran had suffered an acute aortic dissection, likely...
As Alli Brown got older, her feet started to develop painful bunions that kept her from doing the one thing she loved most—running. She tried everything from taping her foot...
Whitney Godfrey has gone through various treatments for her mental health since her early teenage years. Throughout her journey, Godfrey says the Youth Residential Treatment at the Huntsman Mental Health...
Jack Moser was only 5 years old when he was run over by a recreational vehicle and seriously injured. Two years later, Jack has overcome serious challenges and is living...
Zoe Messer moved to Salt Lake City to explore the outdoors. During her first ski season, she hit a tree on the slopes and got a severe traumatic brain injury.
Bryan Caldwell was only 34 when he suffered a serious stroke. After two months in the hospital, he was transferred to Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital where he faced many challenges.
Heidi Shaw, a transplant coordinator at University of Utah Health has been a nurse for 20 years and was inspired to donate one of her kidneys before she turned 50.
When Susan Veater was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in July 2015, she didn't know much about the disease. "When I got the diagnosis, I wasn't sure what it meant," Veater...
