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Climber Mike Kimmel gripped a ledge with his fingertips 50 feet up a sheer cliff. Pain suddenly tore through his shoulder, and he fell. Although a rope caught him in midair, the fall crushed Kimmel’s hopes.
“It was shocking, terrifying, humiliating, devastating – all at the same time,” Steamboat Springs resident Betsy Seabert explains of hearing her cancer diagnosis. “It’s the scariest news.”
Jean Corcoran has managed Type 1 diabetes with medication and a healthy, active lifestyle for over 40 years. But when her insulin pump malfunctioned, the event could have claimed her life.
Dan Elsbury was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2015. During his two-year battle, he says he could not have imagined that one day his career would be helping other Shaw patients here at Vail Health.
Lilly Johnson was practically born ice skating. She began at 2 years old, which led to a college hockey scholarship. She was devastated when it looked like hip pain would sideline her forever.