By Sarah KuperTattoo removal can be a long and expensive process to undo what seemed like a good decision at the time.But for women with tattoos from breast cancer radiation therapy, removing the marks is more a matter of getting back to feeling normal.In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Skin Wellness Center of Alabama is offering free radiation tattoo … [Read more...]
For Will and Sam: Pizitz Middle Schoolers Fight Cancer with Community Support
By Sarah Kuper More than 15,000 children are diagnosed with cancer every year, according to data from the National Cancer Institute. A number that large may seem daunting, but the Vestavia Hills community is doing its part by rallying behind two of its own. In February and March, Pizitz Middle School students Will Nailen and Sam Cunningham were diagnosed with cancer, Nailen … [Read more...]
“Mommy, Where Are You?”: Vestavia Woman Writes Book for Working Moms and Their Children
By Sarah Kuper Vestavia Hills author Tera Howard recently published her second in a series of children’s books. The book, “Mommy, Where Are You?” handles questions a child might ask of a working mother. It’s a conversation Howard knows well. Although she is a published author, writing children’s books is not what she calls her “day job.” Howard is an obstetrician and … [Read more...]
A Fresh Start: Vestavia Hills Mom and Marketing VP Begins Her Journey to V2V
By Emily Williams Dana Stephens Travis – a Vestavia Hills resident, wife to a “super dad,” mother to three spunky kids and vice president of account services at blr | further – is on a mission to add another job to her full schedule: running. As the new year rolled around, Travis began a training sched- ule with Resolute Running in Homewood, where she has set a goal to run in … [Read more...]
One Foot in Front Of the Other: Homewood’s Dell’Italia Trains For First Run After Surgery
By Emily Williams Sidelined from the race course to recover from heel surgery in December 2015, Pat Dell’Italia of Homewood is get- ting back into the routine of running. She had the same heel surgery on her left foot three years ago, but Dell’Italia said her right foot took a bit longer to get back into the swing of things. To mark her comeback and two heels as fit as … [Read more...]