Category: Patient Stories

Celebrating Nels: A Journey of Resilince and Hope

Posted on April 10, 2024 In the spirit of hope and healing that defines our community, we shine a spotlight on an extraordinary individual whose journey ...

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Cardiology Patient Avoids Bypass Surgery Twice

Posted on November 1, 2022 By: Melody Spurney Frank Miller, of El Dorado, Kansas, was told he had two days until he was scheduled for a triple bypass surgery. ...

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Regenerative Injection Therapy Gives Patient Back Pain Relief

Posted on October 13, 2022 For nine years, Shelly Berry was sidelined from life by debilitating back pain. Unable to do much more than work and sleep, she knew ...

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Riordan Clinic Cancer Survivor Looks To Help Others

Posted on September 20, 2022 By Melody Spurney Amye Williamson’s last day of her extended treatment at the Riordan Clinic in Overland Park helped reinforce her ...

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Patient Advises Others to “Be Curious” After Potentially Fatal Autoimmune Diagnosis

Posted on August 1, 2022 By Melody Spurney Scleroderma started small for Denise Douty, 49, of Wichita. Her fingers felt funny after scraping her windshield on a ...

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Retired Nurse Finds Healing at Riordan Clinic After Cancer Diagnosis

Posted on July 15, 2022 By: Melody Spurney Denise Ober was settling into an active retirement in early 2020 after a nearly 50-year career in nursing, but she ...

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Steve Spencer Finds Help and Hope After Treatments

Posted on July 1, 2022 By: Melody Spurney Steve Spencer rolled his wheelchair into the Riordan Clinic in Overland Park in 2020 looking for help … and hope. He ...

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Patient Story: “Rheumatoid Arthritis Does Not Define Me”

Posted on June 5, 2020 Author: Erin Manning, MBA My journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis had a sudden start. The stiffness I felt in the pointer-finger on my ...

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Patient Story: IV vitamin C During Chemo

Posted on February 24, 2020 Submitted by: Sally Bass Ph.D. I am an 82-year-old retired nurse with metastatic endometrial and cervical cancer.  I am using ...

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Leah’s Story: Part Three: The Follow Up

Posted on January 1, 2020 The following post was written by a co-learner, and shared with her permission, on her blog at leahchischilly.com.  Read Part One and ...

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Leah’s Story: “Part Three: The Follow Up”

Posted on September 27, 2019 The following post was written by a co-learner, and shared with her permission, on her blog at lcholistichealth.com.  Read Part One and ...

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Leah’s Story: “Part Two: My First Appointment”

Posted on September 20, 2019 The following post was written by a co-learner, and shared with her permission, on her blog at lcholistichealth.com.  Read Part One of ...

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Leah’s Story: “Part One – I’m Not Even Sick (but I’m a patient anyway).”

Posted on September 20, 2019 The following post was written by a co-learner, and shared with her permission, on her blog at lcholistichealth.com . Thank you, Leah, ...

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Food is my Medicine: Rx- Real, Whole Foods

Posted on January 4, 2017 by: Jackie Caldwell As someone who recovered from an autoimmune disease by drastically changing my diet, the words “Food is Medicine” ...

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Patient Profile: Uncovering Infertility Issues as a Team

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Nichole Kunkel, RN One of the most defeating things as a man or woman is the continuous let down, month after month, when trying to ...

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Journey to Healing: Finding New Life with Lyme Disease

Posted on June 6, 2016 “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” (Margaret Thatcher) “I keep pinching myself… it has been two ...

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Hoyt Lee’s Journey

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Shawna Overbey, Hoyt Lee’s Mother “There’s something ‘BIG’ behind his left eye,” the pediatric ophthalmologist exclaimed.  “We ...

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Sammy’s Very Sick

Posted on December 1, 2015 By Verne Harnish The following is an excerpt from a November 6th email titled “Verne’s Insights” and written by businessman and ...

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Patient Profile: Stomach upset, reflux, embarrassing gas…oh my!

Posted on March 22, 2014 Did you know that approximately 60% of the adult population will experience some type of gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD) within ...

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Becoming a Co-Learner at The Center

Posted on April 1, 2002 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. Editor’s note: This is a letter Ron Hunninghake, M.D., sent to an insurance company to help a patient ...

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