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Women in Business, Homeownership, Finances, Food, Health & Wellness, and Architecture are just a few of the articles you'll find in the latest issue of your community magazine. Sit back and enjoy. Happy reading!

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CHERYL KEARNEY<br />

ABW MedTrans Solutions<br />

www.abwmedtrans.com<br />

As a provider of professional non-emergency<br />

medical transportation, Kearney and her team<br />

of drivers has managed thousands of transports<br />

since 2018.<br />

“Business is challenging at times, but the ability<br />

of take care of folks who need transportation to<br />

their physicians’<br />

“I arrived<br />

appointments<br />

a little early<br />

has<br />

on<br />

its rewards.<br />

When someone smiles because they don’t have<br />

to worry Monday about how morning to get from for my point A to point<br />

B, it test,” makes Smith any challenge recalled. a passing “I was hurdle,”<br />

Kearney reflected. Joining her team are her<br />

husband placed Victor in and a pre-procedure<br />

drivers.<br />

room, where they started<br />

to monitor my heart before<br />

the procedure.”<br />

BETHANY GRACE<br />

The healthcare team noticed something was<br />

not right and performed an EKG.<br />

What happened next saved Smith’s life.<br />

HALEY SMALLWOOD<br />

“The folks taking care of me realized that I<br />

was in atrial fibrillation, AFib for short. They<br />

told me the GI procedure would have to wait<br />

Petworking & Co.<br />

and that I needed care of another issue; my<br />

heart was not pumping rhythm, and I was at<br />

www.petworkingvickery.com<br />

risk of a stroke,” Smith explained. “The quick<br />

actions of the cardiology team saved my life.”<br />

Armed with collars, leashes and the determination<br />

to make Smith their was quickly dream admitted business into the a hospital reality, Grace<br />

and Smallwood and an echocardiogram opened (EKG) their was business performed in 2020,<br />

just as to the see pandemic how the heart’s was chambers reaping and havoc. valves<br />

were pumping blood through her heart.<br />

“We were committed. We chose to move<br />

“An echocardiogram uses ultrasound<br />

forward despite what was happening all around<br />

technology to see how well the heart is working<br />

us. The support from our families, community<br />

and how blood moves through your heart.<br />

and friends, During the along echocardiogram with that it of was the discovered ownership of<br />

Vickery that Village, her heart made was pumping it possible less than for 40% us of to move<br />

ahead. its We capacity,” are stated blessed Dr. Christopher be in Leach, a community<br />

an<br />

that cares interventional about cardiologist one another with and Northside have helped<br />

us thrive,” Cardiovascular Smallwood Institute explained. (NCVI). “We needed<br />

to find out what was causing her problems.”<br />

26 MYFORSYTHMAG.COM SPRING <strong>2023</strong>

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