My Forsyth _ Spring 2023

JALYNN BARR
Community Cup
www.communitycupga.com
Jalynn Barr is passionate about her family, her
community, her work, and causes that help other
people.
Barr has been in the food-service business her
entire career and loves dealing with people.
While in a 40-day yoga challenge, a question
kept coming to mind, “Is there a way I can make
a career “I arrived out of something a little I early love that on also benefits
this group Monday that I’m morning so passionate for my about?”
It was test,” then that Smith the idea recalled. for Community “I was Cup was
born.
placed in a pre-procedure
“Permitted room, to where dream, they I wouldn’t started turn down the
chance to have a Community Cup on every street
to monitor my heart before
corner in the country,” Barr asserted. “For now,
I want the to operate procedure.” a successful business, spend
quality time with my family, be happy in my work,
and make The healthcare a positive team impact noticed on something my community.”
was
not right and performed an EKG.
What happened next saved Smith’s life.
DANIELLE HOFFMAN
“The folks taking care of me realized that I
was in atrial fibrillation, AFib for short. They
told me the GI procedure would have to wait
and that I needed care of another issue; my
heart was not pumping in rhythm, and I was at
risk of a stroke,” Smith explained. “The quick
actions of the cardiology team saved my life.”
Wheezy’s Toy Boutique | Learning Express
www.wheezystoys.com
“Wheezy’s Smith was Toy quickly Boutique admitted focuses into the hospital on providing
busy and parents, an echocardiogram families, (EKG) and was performed individuals a
to see how the heart’s chambers valves
convenient and personal toy and gift buying
were pumping blood through her heart.
experience,” explained Hoffman. “We opened
our first store in Vickery Village just as the
“An echocardiogram uses ultrasound
pandemic technology closed to see everything how well the heart around is working us.”
and how blood moves through your heart.
Brave During comes the to echocardiogram mind when it thinking was discovered about this
committed that her business heart was pumping owner. less Her than determination
40% of
to open its capacity,” her stated toy Dr. store, Christopher named Leach, after an her
daughter, interventional gave cardiologist way to hope with Northside of something
other Cardiovascular than sad news Institute and (NCVI). catapulted “We needed her into
to find out what was causing her problems.”
becoming the owner of two more stores-
Learning Express in Alpharetta and East Cobb.
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