Editor’s Note

Surviving

Joey Thomas

We hope that you all are doing more than just surviving, but with the cost of everything rising, we know that getting through is tougher than it’s been. Living pay check to pay check, deciding what you can do without, it can be maddening and frustrating. We hope more for you all, wishing you joy in what you have, hope in what will be, and love all the while.

Life doesn’t always seem fair, but it always comes around, and staying kind is the only best way through. What you put out will be what you get back, at least that has always been our experience. I’ve watched hateful, mean people get sucker punched by life after sending harm my way. I’ve received money by giving money away to those seemingly in more need, and I’m talking $30 here and there, but always got what I needed just in time to stay afloat. I hope that this life, that can seem so hard on the little, the kind, the good, gives you a break, lets you find your footing when it has had you down. We hope that you discover, learn, while finding laughter in the simple things, and lean into the love that is around you.

Enjoy your February! We hope to bring you just that, more hope, an ease to the struggle, a smile to the mudane, a warmth to the chilly days ahead. Thank You for keeping Your Eye On us! N now. She is board certified in family medicine and can take care of acute and chronically ill patients of all ages She focuses on prevention to try an Gr ort igh Sc ch and re oro for al h d in Ma as e a ca “I ally re d se n so m ng hat too.”

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ALISON GREEN, M.D. they have two boys, Arlo and Alton. Most of her time is dedicated to working and raising their children, but she enjoys baking when she finds the time. She always bakes birthday cakes for everyone in the family and even made her own wedding cake. Unity Health and our community are blessed to have her here to care for our patients and community Green said, “It’s been like a homecoming for me working back in thi ty Being near my parents and helping to care for the patients my dad tended to for 50+ years has been incredibly rewarding. I can’t imagine practicing anywhere else and feeling any more fulfilled than here.”

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