UF Health Inspire
Stories of hope and healing beyond the medicine
For Randy, kidney failure was like a fog that had slowly crept in. He barely noticed it was happening, even as the edges of his vision began to blur, and as it became harder to get out of bed.
For Janet, 78, the uncontrollable shaking was causing her frustration to boil over. The only silver lining was that her identical twin sister, Janis Mason, had already been experiencing the same thing, which she expected before giving her a call.
Matt Benavidez gazes at the exact spot in the road where he was pronounced dead. He stands at an intersection that’s ground zero for the collision between his gruesome tragedy and inexplicable triumph.
After night shifts in the ICU, Sean Devine is tired. This is not atypical. In fact, Sean and his family have grown to expect it. When he is on nights, the critical care pulmonologist arrives home weary in the early dawn.
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Meet Richard “Rich” Rollins, a spirited 70-year-old retiree who relocated to The Villages all the way from upstate New York. Rich and his wife, Cassandra, revel in their shared love for fitness, frequently hitting the gym for cardio exercise and weightlifting. You can find Rich and his friends playing pickleball about five times a weekREAD MORE
In August 2022, with pain increasing in his hip, UF Health patient and decorated athlete Cecil Cordell, 66, medaled in nine events at the Alaska International Senior Games.READ MORE
It was a typical March evening in Florida. The Stone family’s six children were playing outside, bouncing on their trampoline and enjoying the extra daylight from the recent time change. They had no idea their lives — especially 6-year-old Kiersyn’s — would soon be disrupted.READ MORE
Deanna McVay is a Gainesville native, a mom to three children and an avid runner who participated in her first marathon at age 33. While training for her first marathon in 2015, Deanna became a patient of the UF Health Running Medicine Clinic and the UF Health Sports Performance Center to help prevent injuries.READ MORE