MRC News

MERIDIAN, Miss.—After more than a year of visits to physicians, Internet searches and various medicines and therapies, Pam and Troy Dew were still searching for a someone who could tell them why their 18-year-old son was losing strength in his left hand.

“There is no way to describe what that was like. It was such a frantic time in our lives,” Pam Dew of Meridian said. “When they start giving you answers, there is some relief and it does ease your mind, but then there are a lot of other questions.”

JACKSON, Miss.—Jack Fowler’s bout with West Nile virus put him in the hospital for nine days last September, but the retired Jackson dentist says he’s back to full throttle. “I work like a Trojan outside,” he says.

Betty Mitchell, on the other hand, still suffers from lack of muscle control, even though it has been over a year since the Madison art teacher contracted West Nile virus infection. “Sometimes when I walk, I look like I’ve had too much to drink,” she says.

BILOXI, Miss.—Methodist Rehabilitation Center has been recognized by the Mississippi Hospital Association for excellence in the field of health care marketing and public relations.

MHA honored the Jackson hospital’s Web site, safety program, magazine and media relations program with six Maggie Awards and six certificates of merit at their annual convention in Biloxi.

BILOX, Miss.I—“Tell me where it hurts” sounds like a simple request.

But for many who suffer from chronic pain, the easier question is: “Where doesn’t it hurt?” Their pain is so pervasive that it seems to batter every nook and cranny of their bodies.

The widespread effects of this chronic pain will be the topic of the fourth annual summer meeting of the Mississippi Pain Society, set for July 25-26 at Beau Rivage in Biloxi.