If you had seen Catherine Wood Burton jogging the trails of Allsopp Park in Little Rock, you would have thought she was the picture of perfect health. But Catherine’s journey from near death to new life began with an appendectomy that led to a cancer diagnosis and ended with the birth of a healthy baby girl.
When Debbie Evans stepped into the UAMS Weight Loss and Metabolic Control Clinic for the second time, she was grateful to have another chance.
The symptoms of her overactive bladder came out of nowhere, 37-year-old Shonae Williams said. In the weeks before she was referred to Ayman Mahdy, M.D., a urology specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Williams had no choice but to buy adult diapers.
Solita Johnson-Davis was reeling as she got off the phone. The oncologist had bluntly informed the 27-year-old Little Rock realtor that she had cervical cancer.
