PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Officer Shannon Sampson at the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Determined to serve & protect
ST. LUKE’S, A REGIONAL LEADER IN REHABILITATION To many of area school children, Shannon Sampson is
spine surgery a year ago some questioned if she’d be able to
known as “Police PAL (Protect, Assist & Listen) Shannon.”
return to work.
Sampson is a Cedar Rapids police officer assigned to the
“I woke up one morning and the toes on my right foot were
Crime Prevention/Community Outreach division. Part of her job is making the rounds at local schools and teaching children about safety. It’s a job she loves but after having
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numb,” says Sampson. “I got up and walked around thinking that they would wake up but it didn’t help. Eventually the toes on my left foot also went numb. Then the numbness
