PMC nursing team with SEARHC specialty scopes team in the operating room Sept. 2023, offering colonoscopy services in Petersburg for the first time in years. From left to right: Jordan Stafford, Doris Baldwin, Dr. Bijiibaa' Garrison (SEARHC), Kelly Gebler (SEARHC), Emily Danielson, Kellii Wood, Elizabeth Hart, Jennifer Bryner, Laura Buehler, Mary Kravitz, Tamara McKeown.
"...Don't say the C word..." Cris Morrison remembers telling her husband "...It's a blockage..."
It was 2018, and she had been dealing with severe constipation for the second month in a row.
"I didn't know that it had to do with cancer. I just became constipated..."
Her symptoms escalated to incredible pain, and after an overnight stay at Petersburg Medical Center, Morrison was medivaced to Anchorage for emergency surgery to install a colostomy bag for the bowels to empty into and take a sample of the mass blocking her colon.
When she awoke, she had the option to either go home to Petersburg w...
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