This article was in the Raleigh N&O this past Monday,
and it’s one that will make you smile.
Late
last summer, UNC Hospitals ear, nose and throat nurse Katie Sams was talking by
phone to her husband, Alex, a U.S. Army reservist serving at Camp Leatherneck
in southern Afghanistan, and noticed that he had nasal congestion.
“He
said they’d had a lot of sandstorms, and he was having trouble breathing
because so much had gotten into his nose and sinuses,” she said.
The
next day, she emailed Dr. Brent Senior, an ENT surgeon she works with, asking
whether he thought the sales rep for the sinus rinse kits they used at the
hospital might have a few extras they could send to the soldiers in Alex’s
unit.
Dr. Senior was going to be seeing the CEO of a California
company that made the kits (NeilMED) a few days later and mentioned what his
nurse had asked about. Next thing you
know, Katie and her boss are the middle ‘men’ in a $2 million dollar program
for NeilMED to donate as many as 100,000 sinus wash kits and 100,000 bottles of
a nasal-moisturizing gel spray to troops in dusty Afghanistan, Iraq and other
duty stations overseas.
Read more – it’s a very heart-warming story:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/09/2535727/gift-to-troops-dust-free-sinuses.html#storylink=misearch
That. Is. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it..... amazing what one person can do
DeleteThat I endorse the action goes without saying, but I wanted to say that I endorse the product wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteSpread the word about this company - it never occurred to me that our fighting men and women would even NEED such a product! And thanks for stopping by
DeleteI agree, Rick. Perhaps 1% of the 2% ARE selfish, but by and large they are very grateful for their success and they share it because they CAN.
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