November is National Home Care and Hospice Month — an opportunity to honor the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists and social workers who impact the lives of those they serve. Here, team members from D’Iberville-based Saad Healthcare — Sarah Rumery, director of hospice, and Cari- Ann Dunning, patient care coordinator — share some […]
There’s a hot new hangout for pets in Bay St. Louis, and humans might be a bit envious of all the tasty offerings for their four-legged friends. Café BoneJour opened on Blaize Avenue in Old Town on June 8, and since then, pets have been pouring in. Owner Roxanne DeNicola, a New Orleans native, owns […]
One of my favorite sayings is, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him the plans you have for yourself.” I love it not only because it has proven to be repeatedly accurate, but also because embracing it has allowed me to be more accepting of life’s challenges and redirections. One of those redirections […]
Red flags. So many red flags. I saw them but chose to ignore them. He studied me like a book and learned my likes, dislikes and traumas. He then used that information to create the person I believed was my soulmate. He was “saving me” from an already bad place and blinding me with his […]
My name is Sharita Cook, and I am the mother of seven beautiful children, which includes five sons and two daughters. I am the eldest daughter of Larry and Janis Burks. My parents were hard workers. There were five of us altogether, two brothers and two sisters. My mother was a chef, and also a […]
By Dr. Olivia Hightower We are making advancements every year in breast cancer treatment. Patients are being cured at a higher rate, and even those whose cancer is detected at later stages are living longer, as chemotherapy options are improving. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, excluding skin cancers. About one […]
Some patients may still fear the dentist’s chair, but according to Dr. Clifford Cook, the old days of painful dentistry are over. “Lasers have created better work and require far less anesthesia — many times none …,” says Cook, a dentist with Broadwater Dental in D’Iberville. “Oral health is important to overall health, and I […]
