Latest Photos by Bill Snead
John Ross prepares for one of his radiation treatments in this photo, wearing a protective mask at the Lawrence Cancer Center.
John Ross meets with some of the members of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital oncology staff wearing shirts that he bought for the group in this 2008 photo. He also handed out wrist bands that read Rossie Posse.
John Ross, right, was told in 2008 that he had a stage IV cancer in the base of his tongue. He and his wife, Cathy, left, were told it was treatable, and that experience lasted nearly two years.
Cancer patient John Ross, sports a blue mohawk after losing a wager on KU football. His physician, Dr. Eston Schwartz, is at left.
Heidi Karn looks like the picture of health as she talks about Cystic Fibrosis. "I don't say hey, pity me, pity me I've got cystic fibrosis ... but if someone wants to talk about it I'll tell them all they want to know, " she said. Heidi is a Kansas University sophomore. (File photo from April, 29, 2003)
At Heidi Karn and Brad Barker's wedding, Saturday June 25, 2006, at the First Baptist Church in McLouth, Ks. Brad, second from right, hugs his and Heidi's long time friend and his best man, Jason Owen. Jason toasted the newlyweds. Heidi is the daughter of Traci and George Karn, McLouth and Brad is the son of Debi and David Barker, Basehor.
Before her wedding Saturday June 25, 2006, to Brad Barker, Heidi Karn was held aloft by four of her cousins who ushered for the occasion.
Heidi and her husband Brad during a stay in Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. in spring of 2006.
Just minutes after leaving an operating room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Marilee McGinness takes a call on her cell phone. McGinness, a surgeon at LMH, is leaving the hospital to join the staff at Kansas University Medical Center.
A volunteer fireman unfurls a giant flag that hung over the main street of West Liberty, Ky in late February. The funeral procession bearing the body of fireman Eric Vanderpool plus dozens of firetrucks from neighboring towns drove through the arch formed by two latter trucks.
A statue of Popeye stands by the "secret" bridge across the Mississippi River near Chester, Ill. The statue is a tribute to Elzie Segar (1894-1938), Popeye's creator who was born and raised in Chester.
Volunteer firemen from the West Liberty, Ky fire department ride with the body of fellow fireman Eric Vanderpool in a funeral procession. Vanderpool, 28 was killed in an automobile accident en route to an accident while driving his own vehicle. Funeral was February 27.
Kathy Jardon writing in her journal and visiting with friend who came in the Baldwin coffee shop, "Express Yourself." November, 2005.
With her eyes closed in a "here we go again" expression, Kathy's port, implanted in her chest, is flushed before her chemotherapy cisplatin is administered.
In mid-June, 2005 cancer patient Kathy Jardon made one of her familiar trips to Lawrence Memorial Hospital's Oncology department for chemotherapy. On her arrival she and the staff greeted one another by name and she went through the drill of getting her wrist band, the weigh-in and headed for a treatment with no prompting. She talked with Dr. Matthew Stein, her oncologist, before he examined her. . "He's a unique individual ... it's as if you're the only person in the universe when he's talking to you," Kathy said.
From Kathy Jardon's Journal: Miles left. psychotic, suicidal, thinking of Wolf Creek Pass, ALONE.
In mid-June, 2005 cancer patient Kathy Jardon made one of her familiar trips to Lawrence Memorial Hospital's Oncology department for chemotherapy. On her arrival she and the staff greeted one another by name and she went through the drill of getting her wrist band, the weigh-in and headed for a treatment with no prompting. Her parents Norma and Marvin drove her to Lawrence and brought in her noon meal. During the nearly day-long session, she talked about missing Colorado "badly," and her drug reaction that caused painful mouth sores that sometimes necessitated her wearing an athletic mouthpiece to bed.
In mid-June, 2005 cancer patient Kathy Jardon made one of her familiar trips to Lawrence Memorial Hospital's Oncology department for chemotherapy. On her arrival she and the staff greeted one another by name. Nurses Joan Toot, left and Jyl Haynes right. She went through the drill of getting her wrist band, the weigh-in and headed for a treatment with no prompting. Her parents Norma and Marvin drove her to Lawrence and brought in her noon meal. During the nearly day-long session, she talked about missing Colorado "badly," and her drug reaction that caused painful mouth sores that sometimes necessitated her wearing an athletic mouthpiece to bed.
In mid-June, 2005 cancer patient Kathy Jardon made one of her familiar trips to Lawrence Memorial Hospital's Oncology department for chemotherapy. On her arrival she and the staff greeted one another by name and she went through the drill of getting her wrist band, the weigh-in and headed for a treatment with no prompting. She talked with Dr. Matthew Stein, her oncologist, before he examined her. . "He's a unique individual ... it's as if you're the only person in the universe when he's talking to you," Kathy said.
Late afternoon shadows project a profile of Miles Stotts on the hospital room wall at the KU Medical Center when he and daughters Sara, right, and Amy were visiting Kathy after a surgery.
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