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contents 6 Molly Lizzio - Fitting In

14 Fresh Face- Sarah Flick

18 Linda Quinn - Activate Your Life

20 Maureen’s Hope

23 Cover - Crouse NICU

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It was the last week of school and there was a dance in the gym. I was 13 years old. My friends gathered around me to form a small circle. To on lookers, it probably looked like

one of those moments you see at the movies; where it’s a group that’s slow dancing together as we all tearfully promise undying friendship until we’re old and gray. The truth was I was being taken down, and hard. The group leader spoke up: “Everyone who thinks Molly has totally changed and is one of ‘them’ now raise your hand.” I looked around at my closest friends and their upward stretched arms. You couldn’t pay me enough money to go back to middle school. Thankfully, I could find a few good (new) friends by high school, and I ran in much smaller circles for the next four years. However, the drama will still rear its ugly head from time to time. Petty secret e-mail chains, gossip, bullying, not getting invited to the party- did I mention these are the problems of my adult friends today?


Fitting InBy: Molly Lizzio, LMFT

The thing is these problems never really go away. And it’s not just the small stuff anymore, life millstones get thrown into the mix now, and no one is exempt from those stings. They look like being single when everyone else is getting married, be-ing childless while everyone is at Mommy & Me, career standstills while everyone around you is climbing the ladder, still working 40 hours while those around you are retired and traveling, or being the only one in your friend group with no grand kids. The magnitude of not hitting these milestones with the rest of your peers carries a different burden than not fitting in with your friend group at the middle school dance. What ends up happening and how we cope is we break off into groups of people that are most like ourselves. Sometimes it’s about the big stuff like hanging out with other couples, or people who have kids, and sometimes it’s smaller stuff based on interests: yoga friends, foodie friends, people who also watch House of Cards. There’s a group for everyone. In a way, these groups aren’t far off from popular kids, nerds, jocks, etc.. It still creates a sense of otherness. It can be seen as something that divides us. However, in the moment, it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like “I’ve found my tribe of people who also don’t eat gluten!” And bonds form. These groups are born out of shared common ground, but at some point what happens is suddenly the conversation switches to the most-recent episode of

The Walking Dead (which you don’t watch), and immediately you’re out of the conversation. This is where it can get really complicated, because we break off into these sub groups all with similar interests and ideals. But somehow within those groups there is an-other microcosm of society as a whole. You may all have something in common like Cross Fit, but the best people in class will somehow all be friends with each other, then there will be the group that just like the workouts and come to have fun. Even the sub group of Cross Fit gets broken down into its smallest components. It’s in these ways that we’re all forever young, forever feeling separate and left out. This happens at any age. Back in high school and you didn’t fit in with the pop-ular kids, or weren’t pretty enough, smart enough, sporty enough, cool enough- what it boiled down to “is that you just weren’t enough.” Now plug those “not enough” feelings into a life milestone like starting a family. Imagine it’s something you desper-ately want, and haven’t been able to do for one reason or another. Imagine the scope of “not enough” feelings then. It’s important to be sensitive to the missed milestones that hurt others. What you feel is a harmless question, out of curiosity, could be the biggest sore spot of someone’s life right now. Recognize that there is a small teenager in that other person, who is feeling insecure and different, even if she isn’t showing it on the outside. That fearful

teen girl resides in us all. As adults, we look back on the hurt of teenagers who don’t fit in, and we see as clear as the day how it doesn’t have to hurt that bad, it feels unnecessary, and we want to tell them “It won’t be this way for long.” In many ways, we’re right. The small hurts will go away; however, we as adults leave out in our advice is that the hurt that exits will get replaced with other, usually much larger hurt. In some ways, I believe we’re hard wired for this kind of struggle. We derive our most important lessons from those feel-ings of “not enough” and “not there yet.” They are lessons of patience, love, humility, empathy, understanding, and courage. We can get so hung up on not fitting in that we forget all the ways we fit perfectly. We take the beautiful gift of our human expe-rience for granted. Forgive yourselves and others for not fitting into perfect subcate-gories at exactly the right time. Not fitting in is such an illusion mani-fested by our ego. The fact that we’re all so completely different, and all face struggles of inadequacy and hurt is the very thing we all share. It’s like that saying, “change is the only constant”; absolutely, everyone feels like they don’t fit in somehow, really none of us ever fit in- therefore, we all fit together. The hurts of not being where you want to be, is hard enough, don’t add onto that hurt by looking around at others and using their place as evidence of your own lesser status.

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Viva La Resolution!A

fter a season of too many cookies, several pieces of pie, and a half dozen holiday parties, it’s no wonder that a vow to lose weight and get in shape would follow. To many of us this means dusting off our scales, getting a membership at our local gym, and mak-ing a desperate attempt to be a frequent flyer at our local health food store.

With our gym bags packed, we solemnly swear that 2016 will be different! This year, were going to make good on our resolutions!Here a few tips to help you get back on track:

Make a commitment. Though you may have good intentions, sticking with a weight loss program is a lot of hard work. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You have to approach it as you would a job. It is your responsibility to show up, do the work, and give it your all.

Don’t give up so easily! Repeat after me: One minor slip-up does not mean your attempt to lose weight was a failure! Don’t judge your success on the basis of “one bad day” or “one bad meal.” Stay focused on the bigger picture.

Keep a food journal. You’ve probably heard this a thousand times, but keeping a food journal is a vital part of staying motivated. If you don’t eat according to your goals, you can’t expect to reach them!

Be specific about your goals. Saying that you want to lose weight is way too vague. You need to set specific goals, such as “I want to lose ten pounds in six weeks” or “I want to run a mile in a month.”

Establish a plan to reach your goal. Say things like, “I’m going to take Spin Class three times a week” or “I’m going to eat smaller portions at each meal”. This way you will be accountable for the plan you’ve established.

Put a picture on the fridge! Yes, the infamous picture. Cut out a photo of how you would like to look or find an old “skinny” photo. Hang it on the fridge or some-where you will see it for inspiration.

Join a gym. You can take advantage of the group fitness classes they have and even hire a personal trainer to help steer you in the right direction. Check out the special rates and numerous classes at Champions Fitness Center in Cicero! Unmistakably, a gym where your health and fitness goals matter.

Find a gym buddy. Play dates are always fun! Besides, studies show that people are much more successful at achieving and maintaining their goals when they work with others who share similar commonalities.

Stay on course! You are going to make mistakes from time to time, but never use it as an excuse to give up.This year, resolve to take it one day, one meal, and one pound at a time. Sure there will be minor setbacks. It’s how you handle them that counts. Good luck and Happy New Year!

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Sarah FlickBy: Amari D. Pollard

Tucked away at the corner of East Genesee Street in Fayetteville rests a Greek revival house. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of

people pass by it every day unaware of the history they leave behind. And within those walls, at the center of historic memories, sits one young woman dedicated to making sure people remember the fight for women’s rights, justice and liberty.

After graduating from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University with a degree in pol-icy studies and political science, Sarah Flick found herself volunteering at The Matilda Gage Foundation as a part of the Girl Ambassadors for Human Rights program. As a volunteer she spent a lot of time with young girls striving to be agents of change. Their commitment and deep interest in social justice issues amazed her, and was a significant factor in pushing her to apply for the Site Director position when it opened in 2013.

“These girls, they just blow me away,” said Flick. “They were talking about Margaret Atwood in their applications, and they know what The Second Shift is, and the first day we write down all the things they want to talk about and they’re bringing up things like meninism…. They’re an incredibly well educated and engaged bunch of young women.”

The ambassador program is now in its fourth year and Flick admits managing it is her favorite part of the job. The program accepts applicants from high schools all over the area. This year there are 20 girls partici-pating from 11 high schools, as far away as Hilton High School in Rochester to as close as Fayetteville-Manlius and Nottingham.

Although the program is still evolving, Flick best describes it as a social justice training program for girls to receive a crash course in feminism and various social justice topics. Through dialogue, conventions, public speaking and volunteerism they gain the skills needed to go out into the world and become agents of change, just like Matilda.

This year the girls saw the influential movie

Suffragette, visited the LGBT Resource Center in Syracuse and will later travel to New York City to visit the U.N. and meet with NGOs.

The program has more events planned for the upcoming year such as a feminism and masculinity conference for high school boys on April 2. The idea came about after the girls expressed how important feminism is for boys, and how gender roles negatively affect them as well.

In recent years, feminism has marched back into the spotlight with issues such as equal pay, sexual and reproductive health, and violence against women taking precedence. More and more people are stepping out as feminists, but that doesn’t come without backlash. Some people tend to shy away from the word feminist because of its association with "man- hating," but Flick clarifies that at the core of its definition is equality. And that’s what Matilda Gage symbolizes.

“So much of Gage’s work is relevant today; what she wrote about human trafficking, and the separation of church and state,” said

Flick. “She was talking about things like reproductive rights back in the 1850s, and that’s still a highly contentious issue."

Flick has always considered herself a fem-inist, and says she was exposed to feminist ways at a young age. Her parents like to tell her of the (now) funny altercation that happened between them after Flick's father let her watch Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. He didn't tell her mom they were going to watch the film, and she got upset because she didn't want her daughter to see Princess Leia in a bikini. She thought it was a terrible message for a young woman. And although not the type to react and yell, Flick's mom got so angry that she threw the VHS tape into their driveway. It's safe to say the tape didn't make it, but the message behind destroying it did — even though it didn't really sink in for Flick until later. But now, she definitely knows where her feminism comes from.

Years later and having fully embraced her sense of feminism, Flick is now the sole paid employee of The Matilda Gage Joslyn Foundation. As Site Director there is not much Flick doesn't do. While her list of


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"I get to work in the home, in the space where one of the most important women in our nation's history made a difference every day. Same floorboards...and that makes it worth it."responsibilities such as overseeing the house, running the Girl Ambassadors program, and working the gift shop can be daunting, she says helping to keep Gage’s memory alive makes it all worthwhile.

To simply explain the importance of Gage and her message in a brief synopsis is almost impossible because there are so many facets of her life to discuss. And that’s where the foun-dation comes into play, to educate generations about her work and dedication to women’s rights and human liberation in a society so uncomfortable with contemporary social reformation.

The Gage house has become a second home to Flick. Although she’s not sure how long her stay will be, she’s happy with the work she’s doing for the foundation and plans to stay in the field of women’s advocacy work.

Sometimes it can seem like it's all work and no play for Flick, but she knows how to take full advantage of her free time. A perfect day off for her would probably involve cooking a vegetarian Indian meal before snuggling into the couch to watch Star Wars: A New Hope and then falling asleep between the lines of a good book like Mindy Kaling’s Why Not Me.

When she gets those rare, quiet moments, Flick makes sure to relish in them. But at the same time, work can be just as fun for her. When you believe in something so much, and want to see it flourish, it’s hard to look at work as “work.” That's why each new day with the foundation is an exciting one for Flick.

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The reason to seek out move-ment and foods from the Earth, isn’t about weight loss or vanity. It’s about your life

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Once you start the activation process, you will need fuel. Cells need energy to grow. The superior fuel to produce that energy comes from the earth. Plants are the key to optimizing your life force. That’s because plants contain thousands of substances that promote growth and health. A plant-based diet provides optimal nutrition. Re-search shows that simply adding just one plant food to your diet can dramatically change your health. Whether you munch an apple, add a banana to your cereal or add a little lettuce to your sandwich, it matters. Adding a plant to your eating

experience will improve your digestion, protect you from disease and promote cel-lular activation and growth. And when you add more, those benefits magnify. There is a great benefit to eating any and all edible plants. In fact, in any given plant, there are hundreds of substances like vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. We continue to find through research all the amazing benefits these substances can provide.

Whenever you are cooking or eating, commit to adding a plant to the mix. Even if you can’t eat this way all the time, make an intention and build from there. Habits aren’t changed in a day. They are built over time. Start slow and make it permanent. Build your new fabulous life one salad at a time.

Whether in Upstate New York, on a Ca-ribbean island or anywhere, the key to true culinary enjoyment is freshness. The closer to the ground you obtain your food, the fresher and more alive it will taste.

Island Girl Living Diet.

I like to emphasize the word “living” because you want to eat plants as close to being picked as you can. The Island Girl Living Diet can vary depending on where you live and what grows around you. You can find fresh, but it takes effort. Your food should be the most important thing you buy. In this culture, it’s not. When you change that dynamic, you will see the health you always dreamed of.

Think quality, not quantity. Breakfast: Eat within 2 hours of waking.

Fresh fruit: 1-2 cupsCereal: Look for 4 or more grams fiber with under 10 grams of sugar.

Nuts: 1 ounce I eat walnuts but any nut will do. Hemp -1teaspoonFlax seed meal-1 teaspoonSoy milk-1/2-1 cup Look for “GMO project label” on carton. Island add in: Fresh coconut! 1/4cSprinkle with cinnamon

Some people like smoothies as opposed to cereal. Make sure to add in a fiber source like Flax or Chia. Fiber is your friend to keep your gastrointestinal cells happy and healthy.

Lunch:

The Big Salad. The real trick to this is the greens. Finding your “greens source” is a critical part of your diet. Whether you like sprouts, bitter greens, micro-greens, or all the above, this is the cornerstone of a healthy diet. The farmer I know cuts the greens while I hold the bucket! In Central New York go to the Regional Market and grab some fresh cut “Green House” greens. Find out about Micro-greens at Main Street Farm!Add-ins: chick peas, carrots, celery, any and all vegetables and fruits, nuts, seeds, coconut, and fresh cheese (from Wake Robin Farm).

Topping: Add high quality oils, vinegars and herbs.

Dinner

Balance your meal with vegetables, fruits, protein and starch. Although many people are moving away from a highly starched diet, you need some grain and starchy vegetables for nutrition and satisfaction. Whole grains contain B vitamins and fiber. Adding a starch may decrease your desire for treats and snacks later in the evening.

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By Linda Quinn, MS, RDN


Create a meal that satisfies and sustains you.

Protein: Fresh fish, beans, peas, tofu, nuts and seeds are best. Starches: Quinoa, whole wheat couscous, el dente pasta, sweet potatoes, corn and brown rice. Vegetables and fruit: Make sure at least half your plate is vegetables and fruit. Go to the Farmer’s Market and learn about the growing season and eat through the

seasons. You will live as one with your environment. Learn simple cooking tech-niques and allow the flavor and goodness to shine through. Fat: Look for high quality oils and don’t be afraid to use them. Fat is needed to absorb the plant nutrients you are eating. Aim for 2 tablespoons daily. DessertTry one ounce of high quality dark choco-late and/or fresh fruit.

The Island Girl Living Diet is eating the best foods you can find and activating your body. Take the journey this winter with me as I eat so close to the ground I’m kiss-ing it! Be the change you want to see in the world. Peace, love, grace and gratitude.

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It’s difficult to find anyone who has not been touched by cancer in some way. Whether the ill person is a family member or friend, a co-worker or

even yourself, cancer of all types is the sec-ond-leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. For Susan Bertrand, the death of her sister Maureen from a rare form of cancer has brought her in touch with thousands of people who either had or have cancer, or know someone that does. Her non-profit foundation, Maureen’s Hope, based in Baldwinsville, uses purple as its symbolic color, because, Bertrand says, “purple is the color that represents all cancers.” Indeed, sitting in her compact but centrally located office at the main intersection in Baldwins-ville, Bertrand is surrounded with all things’ aubergine. The foundation’s logo is that color, and the hue dominates the decora-tions inside the two-room office. Bertrand’s desk dominates the front room, while a workspace occupies the back room. There she stores fund-raising supplies, jewelry for mailing and other items she is prepar-ing to sell or donate, all affiliated with the foundation. Bertrand started the Maureen’s Hope Foundation after her sister died on Jan. 19, 2003. She struggled with clear cell adenocarcinoma, a very rare and aggressive cervical cancer that starts in the glands, for nearly two years. Maureen’s Hope Foun-dation was established in 2004, managing it out of her Baldwinsville home before

moving six years ago to 44 Oswego St. Here she directs the foundation that counts among its outreach programs:

Beads of Courage, is for children with cancer or Cystic Fibrosis that are at the Golisano Children’s Hospital. When a child is diag-nosed, he or she receives a leather lanyard with a hook on one end and on which they string beads. Each bead represents a che-motherapy session or any other milestone treatment. “They end up with a strand of beads that tells each particular child’s sto-ry,” Bertrand says. “It’s a visual of what they went through.” The hook is so the child can hang his or her strand on the IV pole. They have also given more than 1,600 personal-ized baskets to adults who are hospitalized with cancer. These baskets are filled by volunteers, topped with a purple bow and delivered with some of Maureen’s favorite items, a blanket, a book, a journal, lip balm. “We fill each basket with all those things you need when you’re in the hospital,” Bertrand explains. “It’s a little something, but when you don’t know what to do for someone, if you can brighten their day, a basket makes a difference.” “You and Me Bears help comfort children. Cancer is tough on the entire family, and if a sick child has a sibling at home it’s likely that brother or sister feels that absence. The children receive a bag with two stuffed bears, one for the hospitalized child and the other for the sibling. This program got a huge boost a few years ago when the Dave Matthews Band got involved after Bertrand shared a story about it on Twitter

and the band’s bassist, Stefan Lessard, picked up on it. Ultimately, Dave Mat-thews sponsored the program at Golisano for two years. Inspirational jewelry, including Pennies from Heaven and a sterling silver line. “My sister wore a funky bracelet from Chico’s,” Bertrand says. “The nurses would talk about the bracelet instead of her illness.” The Pen-nies from Heaven bracelet features a shiny coin held by a sterling silver chain. ATMS for Good. Currently, two Baldwins-ville restaurants, the B’Ville Diner and Basta on the River, donate ATM fees they would have received from the customer’s bank to Maureen’s Hope. All funds that are raised go right back into the foundation. “I don’t fund research,” Bertrand says. “I look at what people need today: What do you need? How can I help you? I provide practical support—every-one’s needs are different. I heard from a local gentleman who is battling cancer, and he wondered how he was going to plow his driveway this winter. So we’re going to pay for his snow removal service.” Other practical items Maureen’s Hope has helped with are a wig for a chemotherapy patient, meals, even a cleaning service. “Most of our funds come through sponsor-ships or personal donations,” she says. The organization also holds an annual Spa Day for Moms of children with cancer at Turning Stone Casino’s Skana. “It’s our

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The doctors had her new-born on a ventilator in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before Lenore

Sealy regained consciousness after her emergency cesarean section. They had cleaned and weighed her son, Zak, but didn’t measure him. There was no time. She was two weeks overdue when she went to Crouse Hospital on Holy Thursday, a few days before Easter, almost 22 years ago. Although Sealy was scheduled to be induced the following Monday, her husband and sister urged her to go earlier. “Had I not gone to the hospital when I went, he wouldn’t have survived,” Sealy says. Zak’s heart rate dropped at every contraction. His umbilical cord prolapsed and his head pushed against it. As a result, he likely panicked and aspirated meconium, the sticky substance that forms an infant’s first feces. The physicians decided to put Sealy under general anesthesia and perform a c-section to remove the baby immediately. As they transferred Sealy from a gurney to the operating table, her water broke. It was black.

Sealy woke up surrounded by sever-al family members with solemn ex-pressions, which reflected her son’s prognosis. Because Zak had aspirated meconium, which stuck to the inside of his lungs, he was born with chemical pneumonia and he couldn’t breath on his own. Her family knew how sick he was and that he might not make it, but because she was still coming to, Sealy didn’t fully grasp the gravity of the sit-uation. On her way to a recovery room, the doctors took her to the NICU. “I only knew after the fact why they did it,” Sealy says. “I had to see him alive. They wanted me to see him because they didn’t know if he was going to survive or not.” When she looked at her baby, who had tubes wired around his body, she finally understood. A venti-lator sustained his breathing. Doctors mentioned the possibility of airlifting the infant to Buffalo or Pittsburgh, which at the time had hospitals that were better equipped for the care her son required. For the first days of his life, they couldn’t hold their baby. The nurses told her Zak was the sickest baby

in the NICU.

They could only rest their hands on his body through two circular openings in the isolette. However, the emotional support they received from the staff at Crouse helped them cope with the situation. It started the night Zak was born after the doctors took Sealy to see him as she sat in her room sobbing. A nurse overheard her crying, came into her room and prayed the Lord’s Prayer with Sealy and her husband. The nurse told them she felt confident that their son would get better.

21 years later...

Zak Sealy is now a 21-year-old lacrosse player studying education at Le Moyne College. Since the first moments of his life as Zak kicked and fought against the doctors trying to insert a catheter into him, he has displayed a strong-will. His mother credits his survival to this stubbornness. Her son’s one-month stay at the NICU and 10 days on a ventilator is an experience she and her husband will never forget.

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What makes it work.

Each year the Walter R. G. Baker NICU, on the ninth floor of Crouse Hospital’s Irving unit, cares for nearly 1,000 babies. About two-thirds of the infants admitted to the NICU are born premature, a number which has risen 15 percent over the last 10 years. The hospital which started as a women and infant care hospital, is Upstate New York’s leader for high-risk perinatal care and admits babies from 19 hospitals in 15 counties. As a level 4 Regional Peri-natal Center, this is accomplished with the highest technology for diagnosing and treating sick mothers and preemies.

The NICU is largely supported by donations such as books, blankets, and clothing for families as well as money for purchasing new equipment. As the NICU approaches its 40th anniversa-ry, the Crouse Health Foundation has launched an awareness campaign as the hospital develops plans to expand the size of the NICU. ‘The Baker NICU is one of Crouse Hospital’s marquee services,” says Kimberly Boynton, President & CEO of Crouse. “We are immensely proud of the work our team does and the miracles that occur every day on the unit.” Boynton adds that the current NICU, at nearly 17 years old, is cramped and not as private as newer NICU’s are today, which is why the unit will be one of the focus areas for an up-coming capital campaign by the Crouse Health Foundation.

Currently, the 57-bed unit can accom-modate up to 70 babies although it av-erages at 40 to 50 patients. If the NICU approaches this maximum capacity, the physicians often do a reverse transport and send healthier babies to less-in-tensive nurseries at other hospitals so the Crouse Baker NICU can provide care for the highest risk mothers and newborns. Within the NICU, there are intensive and sub-intensive areas. Both areas have several nurseries which each has room for six babies, unlike other floors of the hospital which limit the number of patients per room at two. The NICU also differs because each bedside, whether an isolate or open crib,

is fully equipped. In addition to a com-puter that monitors vitals such as the baby’s heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, the stations have sup-plies like diapers, wipes, IVs, catheters and bandages. Every two to three hours, nurses provide routine care to the in-fants by checking their vitals, assessing them from head to toe and performing any necessary activities like changing diapers or giving medication.

Babies come to the NICU for a number of reasons but most often it ’s due to premature birth. Any baby born before

35 weeks, whether healthy or sick, has to be assessed in the NICU. The quick visits, called “pit-stops,” may last less than 24 hours if the baby just needs to be observed. Other times babies may require a visit to the NICU because they are born with a condition or congenital defect. Some of the more common con-ditions are respiratory stress, heart de-fects of hypoglycemia, which is inability to maintain blood sugar. The number of babies born with gastroschisis, when the organs are outside of the body, has increased. Babies who have this condi-tion need to be monitored and undergo surgery, and must stay in the hospital until they have normal bowel function. Another condition on the rise is neona-tal abstinence syndrome, an addiction in the baby as a result of

a mother’s drug use during pregnancy. To ensure that babies receive the best care possible during their stay, the staff coverage remains the same during every shift.

The NICU has 24-hour access to providers and a neonatologist is always available. Nearly 200 RNs work along-side nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, therapists and other spe-cialists. “As a doctor, you rely heavily on the nurse who’s been at the baby’s bedside for the eight-hour shift, where-as you’ve popped in and out multiple times throughout the day,” says Rebecca Barnett, a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) and neonatologist at Crouse. “You’re not the one sitting there the whole time, so they really are your eyes and ears when you’re taking care of 30-some babies.” The nurses must rely on their experi-ences and instincts to determine the appropriate direct care for the infants. The entire unit, from lactation consul-tants and speech therapists to physical therapists and pediatric cardiologists, works together to provide this level of comprehensive care.

Despite the amount of technology avail-able to the staff, not every baby makes a full recovery. The long-term effects for preemies depends upon when they were born. “The earlier, they’re born and the smaller they are when born, the higher risk that they will have long-term issues with development,” Barnett says. Sometimes babies incur injuries at birth and other times they are born with conditions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. The severity of these complications and the result-ing care required can range. An infant might be vent dependent, or if they have a condition like spina bifida, the baby will need continued appointments with neurologists and physical therapists. Because every condition varies, the NICU staff work with the infant’s fam-ily, social workers and other services to provide each baby with all the necessary resources and services for their care. “I don’t feel overwhelmed because I know I have a really good team behind me,” says Honora Marceau, a registered nurse (RN) at Crouse.

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Some things come full circle.

Thirty-two years ago, Marceau had a several-week stay in the NICU. She was born at another hospital and transferred to Crouse, where she underwent a series of diagnostics. The doctors determined Marceau needed a lobectomy, a surgery that removes the lobe of an organ. She had a large mass, called a congenital cystic malformation, on her lower-right lung. After her surgery, Marceau was taken to the intensive end of the NICU, placed in an incubator and hooked to ma-chines to control breathing and drainage. She didn’t experi-ence any long-term physical effects, but her parents suffered emotionally for years. Marceau didn’t know she was so sick as an infant until she was a teenager because they chose not to discuss it. “I think now looking back it makes sense that, that’s kind of the driving force behind me wanting to become a nurse and work in the NICU,” Marceau says. Although she started in business and administration, she eventually went back to school for nursing and has been at the Crouse NICU for three years. One of her coworkers, Cathy O’Connor, RN, has been an employee since Marceau’s birth and remembers the exact spot where she stayed as an infant. The two often see one another when Marceau leaves from the night shift and O’Connor arrives in the morning.

These close and enduring relationships often form between staff and patients in the NICU because of the nature of its services. Unlike other areas of the hospital where patients typically stay for a few days, many babies in the NICU have extended visits that can last several weeks or months. Recent-ly, one little baby celebrated a first birthday in the NICU.

“You’re watching them grow and watching them have these successes daily,” says Erin Coleman, NICU RN and nurse manager. “At the same time, your patient is not only the baby, but the parents or the grandparents or whoever the family is.” To celebrate and maintain these relationships, the nurses plan an annual “Preemie Reunion.” They invite individuals who stayed in the NICU and their families to reunite with the staff and update one another on life.

As a sign of appreciation and gratitude for the care and com-passion they received from Crouse, there are two photos of Zak, one at birth and one year later, along with a letter. His gift to the staff hangs along with dozens of others in the hall-way leading from the elevator to the double doors that open into the Crouse NICU. Theses letters of gratitude detail the emotions experienced by families whose child had a stay in the unit: This was the scariest times in our lives... The moni-tor she was hooked to was enough to haunt your dreams... We went from excited, expecting parents to not knowing if we would be parents at all... Sealy advises anyone going through the situation to take advantage of the resources available, connect with someone else to share stories and know that this quality of care exists so close to home.

“We are very grateful that Zak was born at Crouse,” Sealy says. “I don’t believe he’d be here if he weren’t.”

Other success stories of these NICU graduates, or “Little Fighters”, are available on the Crouse website at crouse.org/littlefighters.

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I met Jee Eun Lee at the Comstock Art Facility on a warm December evening. As we entered the building, I could smell supplies like clay, fresh cut wood and tools that students who take ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, metal-smithing, leave to permeate the building. This was reminiscent of

past days spent in this very building. Jee Eun is presently an adjunct professor in the ceramics dept. and has been here, in the United States for almost six years. Originally from Korea, she holds two Masters degrees, the first one in sculpture which she obtained from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. Her second degree was earned at Syracuse University in ceramics. When asked what brought her to Syracuse, she told me that she thought she would have more opportunities in America. She researched the top ten ceramic programs in the country and applied. Syracuse accepted, and we are so fortunate that this brilliant artist landed here.

Though her credentials are very impressive, it’s her artwork that blew me away. She has exhibited in numerous events both here and in Korea, she showed me a presentation of her works that she had prepared for me. Each slide was exquisite, from her drawings to her life-size figures created in resin, fiber, handmade paper, and clay. She loves to use mixed media in her works, she noted that this was important to her in order to express her ideas. She is a master of technical skills. She once spent days inside of a kiln creating life-size figures for one of her works in clay. These hollow figures had to be formed with less than one inch, thick walls or the figures (life size!) could possibly blow up when fired, and they were too large to be able to move from the workspace to the kiln without the chance of breakage before they were fired. I can only imagine how important this work was to her, and the technical skill one must possess to make this happen. She often

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expressed how difficult the materials were to use in many of her artworks. Many times she would have to recast items until they came out to her liking.

I was particularly impressed with the concepts she spoke and wrote about. Her purpose for creating is to assimilate human attributes with nature, in particular, the mountains and water.

She tries to show various elements such as dreams, memories, time, shadow, light, and self-image through her artworks. One of her works (Temporal reflection 1) she creates a mountain range from a topical point of view in wet clay, hand carved. It’s shadowed, when cast, is of a reclining woman, thus, showing the earth as the female body. Another work of art called Journey, was based on a dream she had. She dreamed of a lotus flower which she used as the focal point for this work.

Jee Eun wrote that, In many eastern religions this flower could represent rebirth, purity, self-regener-ation and virtue of the soul. The root of the lotus grows in muddy waters, yet gradually blooms above water. The root of the lotus can represent material life, and the flower the astral world with a meaning of enlightenment. She chose to focus on the purify-ing aspects of its meanings. She also wrote, “ Since the vividness of the dream was so extraordinary I thought something wonderful was to happen in my future. The lotus, symbolizes my hopes and dreams.” “Life in general has been muddy as well as crystal like moments.” The lotus can have profound effects on these moments. I made three life-size figures that are trying to jump in the water, symbolizing the moment when we think about ourselves and memo-ries. The water is arranged in large concentric circles, fabricated from letters of my friends, family and

acquaintances.” I use this example of her concept because it shows how she can use an entire human experience to connect the relationship man has with nature’s surroundings, in this case water and earth. I thought this was creatively brilliant. Jee Eun created one other piece that I was particularly excited about. She cast her figure in blue translucent resin creating what looked like bubbles inside the figure. Each bubble had a pump underneath it that allows the viewer to see water flow through its bubbles. At that time, we did not go into depth about her meaning but to me, I felt she was expressing the relationship between woman and water, this time water becoming a symbol for blood/life always coursing through the body.

Most of her artworks are displayed as installations. Installations need space so they can be creatively set up, as in Journey. She said there are many limitations that she has to work out, it’s not always just setting up artwork but working with the physical space and placement of each element of the work. I asked if the idea that she plans her art around includes these limitations before she begins the work, or if the physical placement of each element of the art is put together in the moment. Jee Eun said that her art is well planned out before she begins her creations, but that she does allow herself to make changes as she is placing the elements of each installation where necessary. Recently, Jee Eun has been focused on creating more sculptural pieces in clay. She had two pieces in a group show at Edgewood Gallery in Syra-cuse during December. She is now working on some more functional pieces such as the lizard mug. If you are interested in knowing more you can email her at [email protected] Watch for her in upcoming shows throughout the area.

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Are you still looking for ways to save? Use stores coupons (but only for items you would buy anyway). Put the money you saved into an account that is not easily

accessible. I have had client’s open savings accounts at another bank or credit union (than their primary one) in order to have the money farther “out of reach.” The key is saving over time; even if it is “only” ten dollars a week, at the end of the year, you have over $500 you didn’t have when you started. What a difference that can make

over several years! Make sure to take advan-tage of any “points” you can earn by using your credit cards responsibly. If you use the card(s) for everyday expenses (gas, groceries, paying bills, etc.) and pay them each month in full you can accrue points quickly, which can add up to airline miles, hotel stays, store gift cards – you name it. The key is to use the cards in a way that benefits you, and not the card issuer. Last, meet with a finan-cial advisor to review your cash flow and financial picture. You may be

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Women. We are certainly ardent about all of those around us whom we love. But are we attentive

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For a long time, we have placed heart disease in more of a man’s category. However, the truth is, women have broken the barrier and have surpassed men in this category. Currently, cardiovascular diseases cause one in three women’s deaths each year, killing approximately one woman every minute. It’s time to protect ourselves and reduce this number, because 80% of heart disease can be prevented.

Dr. Uzma Iqbal is a cardiologist in private practice with SJH Cardiology Associates, which is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hos-pital Health Center. Her passion is the prevention of cardiovascular disease and heart disease in women. She works with the American Heart Association to raise awareness among women about their car-diovascular risk and is the past President of the local chapter in Syracuse. Dr. Iqbal went to medical school in Pakistan and completed her Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship in Washington Hospital Center in DC, before moving to Syracuse. She is board-certified in Car-diology, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology.

“I am very passionate about teaching women about heart disease,” said Dr. Iqbal. “Heart disease is very common among women, and it is on the rise. Un-fortunately, we are now losing more wom-en to heart disease than we are to breast cancer. We must educate women and gain focus on this disease. Many women are not aware of the warning signs; it is

imperative that they gain knowledge in order to reduce their risk of this deadly disease,” added Iqbal. Warning signs are different and more unique for women, than they are for men. Becoming more aware of them is imperative. Not all signs are severe or even the most prominent in women.

According to the experts, women have symptoms that are unrelated to chest pain such as: Neck, jaw, shoulder, upper back or abdom-inal discomfortShortness of breathRight arm painNausea or vomitingSweatingLightheadedness, dizzinessUnusual fatigue

“Mind and body are so closely connected when it comes to health,” claimed Iqbal. “Women are emotional beings and tend to carry a lot of stress. 90% of women are the chosen caregivers within the family, and stress plays a big role in heart disease; finding a way to manage stress is extreme-ly important,” Iqbal said. Dr. Iqbal added that there are countless ways in which to manage stress, whether it be exercising, laughing, reading, spending time with friends, surrounding themselves with people who have positive energy or having a group of supporters.

Whichever way helps a woman to release stress and relax, she must do it at least once a week. Dr. Iqbal added, “High blood pressure and cholesterol are large risk factors for heart disease. It’s so important to get checked consistently and know your numbers. Talk to your doctor about what you can do to get your numbers where they should be.”

So if you had heart disease, would you know the warning signs? Most people might think they do – and there are many similarities in the symptoms of heart disease in men and women. Even so, there are big differences, too. Differences that could be life or death, if you are not aware of them. A number as big as 80% prevent-able with education and lifestyle changes is something worth knowing.

Dr. Iqbal noted, “Go Red for Women is the American Heart Association’s national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women because it’s not just a man’s disease. Go Red for Women advocates for more research for women’s heart health. They have formulated an easy way to get started on a healthier path:

Get your Numbers: Ask your doctor to check your blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose.

Own your Lifestyle: Stop smoking, lose weight, be physically active and eat healthy.

Raise your Voice: Advocate for more women-related research and education.

Educate Your Family: Make healthy food choices for you and your family. Teach your kids the importance of staying active.

Donate: Show your support with a dona-tion of time or money. So don’t just read these facts, know them. Live them. An estimated 43 million wom-en in the US are affected by cardiovascular diseases and 90% of women have one or more risk factors for heart disease or stroke. Nevertheless, 80% of heart disease and stroke events could be prevented! Ed-ucation is the key to a healthy, long life!

Women and Heart Disease. Opening our Eyes to Save our Heart

By: Kristen Penfield

Women and Heart Disease. Opening our Eyes to Save our Heart

Dr. Uzma Iqbal, Cardiologist


Heart disease is not something only older women should be concerned with, either. Especially those with a family history and heart disease should pay close attention to the heart-disease risk factors. Women of all ages must take heart disease seriously. As well, cardiovascular diseases affect women of all ethnicities.

Dr. Iqbal said, “Women must be in tune with their bodies. They cannot ignore symptoms or be too quick to claim it as ‘something else’. Discussing their health regularly with their physician is extremely important. Knowing the facts can save their lives and, of course, living a healthy, active lifestyle.” Iqbal added, “When a woman quits smoking, she immediately lowers her risk of cardiovas-cular disease by 34%. Being active 30 minutes a day lowers her risk significantly!”

Dr. Iqbal tells us that when it comes to reducing our risk of heart disease, change can be the cure. The American Heart Associations Go Red for Women campaign helps women become more educated, more aware and live healthier lives. We must open our eyes, to save our heart. It’s up to us. We can begin by talking to our physician and going to goredforwomen.org to learn the facts about heart disease. Dr. Iqbal lives in the Syracuse area with her husband and two children.


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