Patient Stories

When Bob Davis was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he faced a difficult decision — either have surgery to remove his prostate or face a long ...

Paul Christian, a 58-year-old retired marine biologist and avid cyclist, has been active all his life. When his right shoulder began bothering him ...

Marilyn Harris has worked for 30 years as a nurse in Jesup and knows her way around the medical community. When she was diagnosed with ...

When Delores Johnson began experiencing pain and severe chills one February morning, she headed to the St. Simons Immediate Care Center, a strategic ...

Fifty-one-year-old Sharon Davis has many passions, including hunting and fishing with her husband and spending time with her two grown daughters and ...

Three years ago, 79-year-old Sanford S. Feller, the energetic president of a manufacturing firm, experienced a bout of diverticulitis so severe he was ...

Bob Groote dreaded the thought of having total hip replacement surgery. As the owner of a busy commercial real estate brokerage, he didn't have ...

When Raymond Massey paid a visit to the annual Heart Health Day at the Southeast Georgia Health System Camden Campus, he was expecting a clean bill of ...

When Patti Wilcher was diagnosed with cancer, her treatment plan called for two months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation therapy. There were ...

For the birth of her third child, Max, in July 2011, Natasha Williams returned to the Southeast Georgia Health System Miriam & Hugh Nunnally ...

When 88-year-old Mary Ridarsick moved from Fort Lauderdale to Jesup with her husband six years ago, she was excited to be returning home after more ...

Linda Pinson is very familiar with Southeast Georgia Health System, having served on the board of the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority for ...

When 31-year-old Teleka Tillman moved to Brunswick from Atlanta, she would have preferred to leave behind years of pain from uterine fibroids. Doctors ...

Gladys Dobbs is in “fabulous shape,” according to her doting daughters, Jennie Stanfield and Pennie Tanner. Gladys’ good health is ...

Community, comfort and convenience are three words Fran Baker, 42, of Brunswick, Ga., uses to describe her experience at Southeast Georgia Health ...

James “Daryl” Reed, 58, of Brunswick, Ga., is a role model as to what’s possible for many patients attending pulmonary ...

Jim and Iris Gandy have been married for almost 15 years and have struggled with weight issues for even longer. But with the help of their friends and ...

Ask anyone to name their least favorite medical procedure, and you will likely hear: “Colonoscopy.” Linda Foster certainly felt that way. ...

When Gary Willis injured his right leg in a lawn mowing accident in June 2012, the retired bank executive thought he could treat the wound himself. ...

When Mindy Egan needed to find a nursing home for her ailing father, she had little experience in the matter. After researching her options, Mindy ...

Brenda Joyner Thompson, a former Brunswick resident who now lives in Waynesville and owns Kidz Kountry Day Care and Learning Center, is a big believer ...

For Joseph Hulsey, life after treatment for prostate cancer is much the same as it was before. But in 2013, he had quite a scare when he was diagnosed ...

When 49-year-old Rick Frawley went to have a bothersome cyst removed from above his left ear in 2010, he was shocked to receive a diagnosis of stage ...

Imagine not being able to walk across the room without gasping for air. That’s what life was like for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...