Those living with traumatic brain injuries fight the stigma and find help through support services. More on Page 6.

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Enlargement of the prostate, known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is the most common prostate problem in men, increasing in frequency with age.

An enlarged prostate does not increase your chances of developing prostate cancer. However, BPH and prostate cancer do have similar symptoms so it’s possible that a man with an enlarged prostate may also have undetected cancer.

Symptoms include:

To help detect prostate cancer early, men should receive annual exams starting at age 50, or as early as age 40 for men who are at higher risk, such as African Americans and men with a family history of prostate cancer.

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By Amy SchilzFor The Tribune

Sheryl Ehrman knows the value of good advice.

“I’m living proof of why you should have a colonos-copy,” said Ehrman.

As a nurse practitioner in the radiation oncology clinic at North Colorado Medical Center, Ehrman is skilled at encouraging p a t i e n t s to make d e c i s i o n s to keep themselves h e a l t h y . But as a colorectal cancer sur-vivor, the advice to make time for a colonoscopy is especially personal.

At 43, Ehrman was diag-nosed with stage 3 colorec-tal cancer.

During a visit with her family physician, she shared her family history of colon cancer with Dr. Craig Wilson. Her mother had been diagnosed with stage 1 colon cancer just three months prior, at age 68. A malignant tumor was found during her mother’s colonoscopy and then sur-gically removed. Sharing this information with her physician prompted him to recommend a colonoscopy for Sheryl, even though she was younger than the guidelines of screening adults older than 50.

Sheryl took the recom-

mendation and scheduled the procedure. During the colonoscopy, a suspicious tumor was discovered. A biopsy of the tumor con-firmed the stage 3 cancer. Ehrman promptly had sur-gery to remove the tumor, followed by five weeks of radiation and six months of chemotherapy to rid her body of any remaining can-cerous cells.

The 10-year survivor of-fers advice to others about having a colonoscopy.

“People are afraid to have colonoscopies be-cause of modesty, but there is no reason not to have one,” said Ehrman. “My cancer could have easily metastasized into my liver, and I may not be here right now if I did not have that colonoscopy.

“Knowing your family history, whether it is about colon cancer, diabetes, or any other disease is a key element in prevention.”

Because of her and her mother’s diagnosis, the family has dug deeper to learn an uncle had died

of colon cancer at age 50. Armed with this knowl-edge, Ehrman’s brother and sisters have all had and will continue to have regu-lar colonoscopies.

While the recommenda-tions for having a colonos-copy start at age 50, those who have increased risk factors should be screened earlier. In fact, those who have had close relatives with colon cancer should be screened 10 years be-fore the relative’s diagnosis age. For example, with her diagnosis at age 43, Eh-rman’s children will plan on having their first colo-noscopy at age 33.

In addition to family his-tory, people who have high risk factors such as having inflammatory bowel dis-ease, unexplained anemia or weight loss, and certain genetic disorders should begin screening at an ear-lier age and have frequent screenings.

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Education about the genetic connection and following doc-tor’s recommendations are another key element in prevent-ing colon cancer. On Tuesday, March 6, Ehrman will have the opportunity to share her story by being part of North Colorado Medical Center’s Dinner with a Specialist. She will join Dr. Patrick Lynch of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Dr. Mark Rosenblatt of the NCMC GI Clinic in a presentation and healthy meal at the Aims Corporate Center, 5590 11th St. in Greeley.The event will feature a healthy meal offered for $10 per per-son, followed by a presentation. Pre-registration is required. To register, call (970) 350-6633. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the free presentation from 7-8:15 p.m.

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By Joshua Espinozajespinoza@greeleytribune.com

It was the longest three months of their lives.

Weeks and weeks of waiting, uncertain when — or if — their son, brother and friend would wake up from his trauma-induced coma. They were told by doctors that with each day that had gone by, it was increasingly less likely the 18-year-old would return. But Mark Pormen’s loved ones refused to concede to those odds.

His family and friends held their collec-tive breath, never losing hope that Pormen would wake up from his coma; and about 12 weeks after his motorcycle crash, those hopes became a reality. But Pormen had sustained a traumatic brain injury, and nothing would ever be the same.

As a teenager, Pormen was a well-rounded individual who had no trouble succeeding in nearly every endeavor he pursued. He was a top-notch athlete — a varsity football player who also held school records in track — as well as straight-A student with an interest in calculus, phys-ics and chemistry. And like many ambi-tious 18-year-old men on the verge of starting their lives, he had big dreams. But all that changed following the crash.

“It truly was an accident, but for the lon-gest time it took me forever to realize that,” said the now-49-year-old from Eaton. “It happens every day. You read about it in the paper, and you read how people die. I didn’t die, but in a way a part of me did. The person who could have been an engi-neer or an astronaut, he died that day and it left me in this place.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pormen is one of about 5 million Americans living with a traumatic brain injury — struggling to overcome common misconceptions that often lead to hurdles in employment, re-

lationships and even day-to-day social interaction. Fortunately, for Pormen and millions like him, there are resources avail-able for brain injury survivors. Everything from support groups to assisted-living programs to adult day services have made it much easier for patients to function in society — resources Pormen said were es-sential to ensuring his progress and self-acceptance.

THE LONG ROAD Pormen admits it’s difficult to remem-

ber events that happened long ago, but he can recall the day of the crash well.

It was Good Friday in 1981 and the Purdue University freshman was return-ing to his Indiana hometown for Easter weekend. He said it was early afternoon, a little after 1 p.m., when an elderly man unintentionally pulled his car out in front of his motorcycle and crashed into him. Pormen sustained a blow to the right

side of his head and was left in a coma for months. According to him, doctors said he had a one in 1 million chance to regain consciousness.

But in typical Pormen fashion, he pulled through — coming out of the coma and even shocking physicians with his rapid recovery. He said that after waking, his muscles were flaccid; he was unable to walk, feed himself and even hold his head up. However, he retained his ability to speak, read and write, which he said helped his progress in physical therapy and the restrengthening program. With impressive communication skills and sup-port from his family, he became stronger and stronger. And within six months, Por-men was able to walk by himself, but still faced challenges.

“My muscles returned quickly, but con-trol of those muscles took years and years of repetitive practice,” he said. “You learn dexterity when you’re a child, but when

you go into a coma, your body has to re-learn all that.”

Although to this day Pormen’s speech lags in raspy intonations and the left side of his body is slower than the right, he has come a long way from the time he came out of his coma. With a hefty amount of self-motivation and aid from outside re-sources, he has been able to achieve great progress and make a relatively normal life for himself: a working family man who still has a love for math and science.

“Even after all these years, sometimes he just says things that surprise me,” said his wife, Vicki, who married Pormen on Christmas Eve 2006 so it would be easier for him to recall. “He sometimes can’t re-member what he had for breakfast, but he remembers physics. So he’s clearly not stupid or ignorant like many people as-sume brain injury patients to be. It makes me very upset when people can’t look past his brain injury. You have to stop and think that this person has a challenge, like a lot of people. It’s not something he can control.”

RECOVERYFor about six years following his crash,

Pormen lived with his mom and dad in his small hometown in Indiana. He said he essentially became a child again and relied heavily on friends and family to care for him. However, he later realized that if he ever wanted to progress, it was key for him to live on his own. So in 1987, he packed up and moved to a government-assisted house in Kokomo, Ind. That same year, he enrolled in college, where he eventu-ally got a associate’s degree in mechanical design. And with the help of vocational re-hab, he was able to land employment with Lowe’s in Indiana, a job he now holds at the Greeley location.

But even with all that advancement, Pormen said there was still a void.

Although his family and friends were always there for him, they weren’t able to completely understand the problems he faced; he needed support from others who had gone through similar incidents, people who could share their stories and provide advice for how to deal with the hurdles that come with being a brain-in-jury patient. So around the time he moved out on his own, he began volunteering with the Brain Injury Association in India-napolis, an organization that provides in-formation and connects patients with re-sources available in different areas across the country.

“It was nice sharing with other people like me and encouraging one another to be more than what they were,” he said. “People with brain injuries, they get to feeling so bad about their predicament. For myself, that lasted a long time, but I was somehow able to push myself, and I wanted to help others do that.”

And he did. About a decade after us-ing the association’s services, he started a support group under the Brain Injury As-sociation in Kokomo, Ind. And after mov-ing to Colorado in 2006 to marry his wife, whom he met through his sister, he tried to start a similar support group in Greeley. But he had no luck.

“Right after a brain injury, a lot of peo-ple are unwilling to communicate and be social because they know they’re different, and they don’t want to bring attention to it by talking or being around other people,” Pormen said. “But it’s good for us. We just need a place to meet. Back in Indiana, it was great to do things as a group; there were parties, barbecues, just a social set-ting with people who you could relate to.”

Unbeknownst to Pormen, however, the city actually has two brain injury support groups that are backed by the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, based in Denver. In

fact, according to the organization’s ex-ecutive director Gavin Attwood, there are about 30 cities and towns in the state that have brain injury support groups.

“If someone wants to start one, we try to make it as easy as possible,” Attwood said. “We don’t own the support groups, we don’t manage the support groups, we support the support groups to make sure they’re successful. And for those who want to start a group, we just ask where they’re going to meet, how often, what times and who are the support group leaders and whether or not they would like a staff member to go to the first few meetings to get things going. Then we add them on our website and put them on our mailing list.”

The two local support groups are Gree-

ley-Family, which meets once a month; and Moving Forward, a weekly group that is run by Greeley Center for Independence, which also operates the Stephens Brain Injury Campus program — a supported-living service for adults with brain injuries.

“We typically service people who have maximized their rehabilitation, some who have been injured for 10, 20, 30 years,” said Cheryl Catsoulis, the director of brain injury services for Greeley Center for In-dependence and a board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado. “We want the best quality of life for people who have sustained a brain injury. I don’t think they have as many opportunities to ad-vance as what their abilities would allow. And sometimes we hold people back be-cause there are not resources available to

help people succeed.”Catsoulis echoed the sentiment of Por-

men, saying that support groups provide patients with a social outlet, helping them regain confidence in communication skills that are often times scrutinized by society.

“I think there’s a misconception that people with brain injuries are not intel-ligent,” she said. “They have some chal-lenges with memory and attention, or how they walk or speak, but I think people for-get that prior to the injury, these people led a very normal life. They had jobs, they had children, they were going to school, they were cheerleaders, they were construction workers. They still have those memories of what life was like before their disability.”

Such is the case for Pormen, a man who admits he initially struggled accepting his

new life and all the new challenges that accompanied it. However, after using the support of friends, family and fellow sur-vivors, he has managed to exceed expecta-tions. And he wants nothing more than to help others do the same.

“I think the first step is to educate so-ciety about brain injuries and the people that have them. People just don’t under-stand it, and they’re afraid of it,” he said. “People with brain injuries are mostly just like everyone else. We lived normal lives, but then one day we might have had an accident. And after the accident, we’re unable to function at the same level as be-fore. People expect us to be the same as we were before, but when we don’t measure up, they write us off. And that needs to change.”

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JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com

MARK PORMEN SITS NEXT to wife, Vicki, on the porch of their home outside Lucerne earlier this month. Pormen sustained a brain injury after a motorcycle crash when he was 18 years old.

Greeley Center for Independence Living-Stephens Brain Injury CampusThe center provides 24-hour assistance to its clients, as well as certified nurse’s aides, life-skills trainers and personal care providers. Though clients are selected based on space and admissions criteria, non-client brain injury survivors can participate in the center’s adult day services, which consist of outings, exercise activities and various educational programs. Non-clients are also welcome to join the weekly support group for brain injury patients, which takes place at 6 p.m. every Monday at the center, 2774 Reservoir Road in Greeley. For more information, go to www.gciinc.org.

» Support groupsGreeley Center for Independence Stephens FarmFor adult survivorsWhere: 2774 Reservoir Road When: 6 p.m. every MondayContact: Jenn Palmer, (970) 506-0008, ext. 21

Greeley-FamilyFor adult survivors and family membersWhere: The Buzz Coffee and Gelato Shop, 1923 59th Ave, No. 135 When: 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. first Saturday of the monthContact: Michelle Sauder, (970) 330-5326

» For more

Support helps brain injury victims turn struggles into triumphs

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By Joshua Espinozajespinoza@greeleytribune.com

It was the longest three months of their lives.

Weeks and weeks of waiting, uncertain when — or if — their son, brother and friend would wake up from his trauma-induced coma. They were told by doctors that with each day that had gone by, it was increasingly less likely the 18-year-old would return. But Mark Pormen’s loved ones refused to concede to those odds.

His family and friends held their collec-tive breath, never losing hope that Pormen would wake up from his coma; and about 12 weeks after his motorcycle crash, those hopes became a reality. But Pormen had sustained a traumatic brain injury, and nothing would ever be the same.

As a teenager, Pormen was a well-rounded individual who had no trouble succeeding in nearly every endeavor he pursued. He was a top-notch athlete — a varsity football player who also held school records in track — as well as straight-A student with an interest in calculus, phys-ics and chemistry. And like many ambi-tious 18-year-old men on the verge of starting their lives, he had big dreams. But all that changed following the crash.

“It truly was an accident, but for the lon-gest time it took me forever to realize that,” said the now-49-year-old from Eaton. “It happens every day. You read about it in the paper, and you read how people die. I didn’t die, but in a way a part of me did. The person who could have been an engi-neer or an astronaut, he died that day and it left me in this place.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pormen is one of about 5 million Americans living with a traumatic brain injury — struggling to overcome common misconceptions that often lead to hurdles in employment, re-

lationships and even day-to-day social interaction. Fortunately, for Pormen and millions like him, there are resources avail-able for brain injury survivors. Everything from support groups to assisted-living programs to adult day services have made it much easier for patients to function in society — resources Pormen said were es-sential to ensuring his progress and self-acceptance.

THE LONG ROAD Pormen admits it’s difficult to remem-

ber events that happened long ago, but he can recall the day of the crash well.

It was Good Friday in 1981 and the Purdue University freshman was return-ing to his Indiana hometown for Easter weekend. He said it was early afternoon, a little after 1 p.m., when an elderly man unintentionally pulled his car out in front of his motorcycle and crashed into him. Pormen sustained a blow to the right

side of his head and was left in a coma for months. According to him, doctors said he had a one in 1 million chance to regain consciousness.

But in typical Pormen fashion, he pulled through — coming out of the coma and even shocking physicians with his rapid recovery. He said that after waking, his muscles were flaccid; he was unable to walk, feed himself and even hold his head up. However, he retained his ability to speak, read and write, which he said helped his progress in physical therapy and the restrengthening program. With impressive communication skills and sup-port from his family, he became stronger and stronger. And within six months, Por-men was able to walk by himself, but still faced challenges.

“My muscles returned quickly, but con-trol of those muscles took years and years of repetitive practice,” he said. “You learn dexterity when you’re a child, but when

you go into a coma, your body has to re-learn all that.”

Although to this day Pormen’s speech lags in raspy intonations and the left side of his body is slower than the right, he has come a long way from the time he came out of his coma. With a hefty amount of self-motivation and aid from outside re-sources, he has been able to achieve great progress and make a relatively normal life for himself: a working family man who still has a love for math and science.

“Even after all these years, sometimes he just says things that surprise me,” said his wife, Vicki, who married Pormen on Christmas Eve 2006 so it would be easier for him to recall. “He sometimes can’t re-member what he had for breakfast, but he remembers physics. So he’s clearly not stupid or ignorant like many people as-sume brain injury patients to be. It makes me very upset when people can’t look past his brain injury. You have to stop and think that this person has a challenge, like a lot of people. It’s not something he can control.”

RECOVERYFor about six years following his crash,

Pormen lived with his mom and dad in his small hometown in Indiana. He said he essentially became a child again and relied heavily on friends and family to care for him. However, he later realized that if he ever wanted to progress, it was key for him to live on his own. So in 1987, he packed up and moved to a government-assisted house in Kokomo, Ind. That same year, he enrolled in college, where he eventu-ally got a associate’s degree in mechanical design. And with the help of vocational re-hab, he was able to land employment with Lowe’s in Indiana, a job he now holds at the Greeley location.

But even with all that advancement, Pormen said there was still a void.

Although his family and friends were always there for him, they weren’t able to completely understand the problems he faced; he needed support from others who had gone through similar incidents, people who could share their stories and provide advice for how to deal with the hurdles that come with being a brain-in-jury patient. So around the time he moved out on his own, he began volunteering with the Brain Injury Association in India-napolis, an organization that provides in-formation and connects patients with re-sources available in different areas across the country.

“It was nice sharing with other people like me and encouraging one another to be more than what they were,” he said. “People with brain injuries, they get to feeling so bad about their predicament. For myself, that lasted a long time, but I was somehow able to push myself, and I wanted to help others do that.”

And he did. About a decade after us-ing the association’s services, he started a support group under the Brain Injury As-sociation in Kokomo, Ind. And after mov-ing to Colorado in 2006 to marry his wife, whom he met through his sister, he tried to start a similar support group in Greeley. But he had no luck.

“Right after a brain injury, a lot of peo-ple are unwilling to communicate and be social because they know they’re different, and they don’t want to bring attention to it by talking or being around other people,” Pormen said. “But it’s good for us. We just need a place to meet. Back in Indiana, it was great to do things as a group; there were parties, barbecues, just a social set-ting with people who you could relate to.”

Unbeknownst to Pormen, however, the city actually has two brain injury support groups that are backed by the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, based in Denver. In

fact, according to the organization’s ex-ecutive director Gavin Attwood, there are about 30 cities and towns in the state that have brain injury support groups.

“If someone wants to start one, we try to make it as easy as possible,” Attwood said. “We don’t own the support groups, we don’t manage the support groups, we support the support groups to make sure they’re successful. And for those who want to start a group, we just ask where they’re going to meet, how often, what times and who are the support group leaders and whether or not they would like a staff member to go to the first few meetings to get things going. Then we add them on our website and put them on our mailing list.”

The two local support groups are Gree-

ley-Family, which meets once a month; and Moving Forward, a weekly group that is run by Greeley Center for Independence, which also operates the Stephens Brain Injury Campus program — a supported-living service for adults with brain injuries.

“We typically service people who have maximized their rehabilitation, some who have been injured for 10, 20, 30 years,” said Cheryl Catsoulis, the director of brain injury services for Greeley Center for In-dependence and a board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado. “We want the best quality of life for people who have sustained a brain injury. I don’t think they have as many opportunities to ad-vance as what their abilities would allow. And sometimes we hold people back be-cause there are not resources available to

help people succeed.”Catsoulis echoed the sentiment of Por-

men, saying that support groups provide patients with a social outlet, helping them regain confidence in communication skills that are often times scrutinized by society.

“I think there’s a misconception that people with brain injuries are not intel-ligent,” she said. “They have some chal-lenges with memory and attention, or how they walk or speak, but I think people for-get that prior to the injury, these people led a very normal life. They had jobs, they had children, they were going to school, they were cheerleaders, they were construction workers. They still have those memories of what life was like before their disability.”

Such is the case for Pormen, a man who admits he initially struggled accepting his

new life and all the new challenges that accompanied it. However, after using the support of friends, family and fellow sur-vivors, he has managed to exceed expecta-tions. And he wants nothing more than to help others do the same.

“I think the first step is to educate so-ciety about brain injuries and the people that have them. People just don’t under-stand it, and they’re afraid of it,” he said. “People with brain injuries are mostly just like everyone else. We lived normal lives, but then one day we might have had an accident. And after the accident, we’re unable to function at the same level as be-fore. People expect us to be the same as we were before, but when we don’t measure up, they write us off. And that needs to change.”

PAIN UNSEEN

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com

MARK PORMEN SITS NEXT to wife, Vicki, on the porch of their home outside Lucerne earlier this month. Pormen sustained a brain injury after a motorcycle crash when he was 18 years old.

Greeley Center for Independence Living-Stephens Brain Injury CampusThe center provides 24-hour assistance to its clients, as well as certified nurse’s aides, life-skills trainers and personal care providers. Though clients are selected based on space and admissions criteria, non-client brain injury survivors can participate in the center’s adult day services, which consist of outings, exercise activities and various educational programs. Non-clients are also welcome to join the weekly support group for brain injury patients, which takes place at 6 p.m. every Monday at the center, 2774 Reservoir Road in Greeley. For more information, go to www.gciinc.org.

» Support groupsGreeley Center for Independence Stephens FarmFor adult survivorsWhere: 2774 Reservoir Road When: 6 p.m. every MondayContact: Jenn Palmer, (970) 506-0008, ext. 21

Greeley-FamilyFor adult survivors and family membersWhere: The Buzz Coffee and Gelato Shop, 1923 59th Ave, No. 135 When: 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. first Saturday of the monthContact: Michelle Sauder, (970) 330-5326

» For more

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Los Angeles TimesThe pain of losing a loved one can be a searing, gut-wrenching hurt and a long-lasting blow to a person’s mood, concentration and ability to function. But is grief the same as depression?

That’s a lively debate right now, as the psy-chiatric profession considers a key change in the forthcoming rewrite of its diagnostic “Bible.” That proposed modification — one of many — would allow mental health provid-ers to label the psychic pain of bereavement a mood disorder and act quickly to treat it, in some cases, with medication. With the Diag-nostic and Statistical Manual’s fifth edition set for completion by the end of this year, the editors of the British journal The Lancet have come out in strong opposition to the new lan-guage, calling grief a natural and healthy re-sponse to loss, not a pathological state.

“Grief is not an illness. It is more usefully thought of as part of being human, and a normal response to the death of a loved one,” writes the editor of The Lancet. “Most people who experience the death of someone they love do not need treatment by a psychiatrist or in-deed by any doctor. For those who are grieving, doctors would do better to offer time, compas-sion, remembrance, and empathy, than pills.”

The change under consideration would expunge any reference to the passage of time since a loved one’s death before a diagnosis of depression could be considered. The current edition of the diagnostic manual states that if a patient’s low mood and energy, sleep difficul-ties and appetite changes persist for more than two months following bereavement, a diag-nosis of depression might be considered. An earlier edition of the manual had established a year as the period during which mourning should not be confused with depression.

“Putting a time frame on grief is inappropri-ate,” The Lancet’s lead editorial states simply. And in a “Perspectives” essay also published Feb. 16 in Lancet, Harvard University medical anthropologist Dr. Arthur Kleinman agrees, eloquently exploring what’s at stake.

“Is grief something we can or should no lon-ger tolerate?” asks Kleinman, who describes his own grief after his wife of 46 years died last

March from Alzheimer’s disease. “Is this ex-istential source of suffering like any dental or back pain unwanted and unneeded?”

Kleinman calls the current two-month time period allowed for grief a “shockingly short expectation” that no religion or society would support. To allow grief to be redefined as de-pression with no allowance at all for the pas-sage of time not only spells “the loss of grief”: it risks redefining vast numbers of Americans who are taking their time to adjust to the loss of a loved one as sick, he writes. And it pow-erfully rewrites cultural values about how we understand and mark the loss of a fellow hu-man being.

Proponents of the change have argued that it would allow the bereaved to seek help for their suffering. And they add that it would not define all who grieve as depressed. They argue there is often no difference, but for the recent death of a loved one, between the behaviors that define depression and those that define grief.

The Lancet’s editors note there is no evi-dence that antidepressant medications im-prove the moods of people who are healthy to begin with. Citing fellow critics of the proposed move, Kleinman suggests that it might have been inevitable once the financial interests of pharmaceutical manufacturers collided with psychiatry’s loose definitions of mental illness and the profession’s tendency to expand its pa-tient base.

“Its ubiquity makes grief a potential profit centre for the business of psychiatry,” he writes.

PSYCHIATRY DEBATE: IS THE PAIN OF LOSS REALLY DEPRESSION?

... Most people who experience the death of

someone they love do not need treatment by a psychiatrist or indeed by any doctor. For those who are grieving, doctors would do better to offer time, compassion, remembrance, and empathy, than pills.”

The Lancet

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TRiBUNE MEDiCAL DiRECTORY 2010TRiBUNE MEDiCAL DiRECTORY 2012Westlake Family Physicians, Pc5623 W. 19th StreetGreeley, CO Phone: (970) 353-9011Fax: (970) 353-9135Professionals: Richard Budensiek, D.O.; Jacqueline Bearden, MD; Janis McCall, MD;Angela Mills, MD Frank Morgan, MD;David Pols, D.O. www.bannerhealth.com

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Bells RUnning/Walking3620 W. 10th StreetGreeley, CO 80634Phone: (970)356-6964

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TRiBUNE MEDiCAL DiRECTORY 2012orthopedics

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Professionals: Daniel J. Hatch, D.P.M. Mike D. Vaardahl, D.P.M.

Greeley foot & ankle2000 16th Street, Suite 3Greeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)352-4815Fax: (970)352-5130Professionals: Dr. Jean Masterson

pulMonary/critical care

north coloradopulMonary (ncMc)2010 16th Street, Ste AGreeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)392-2026Fax: (970)392-2028Professionals: David Fitzgerald, DOKelli R. Janata, DORobert J. Janata, DO

prosthetics & orthotics

hanGer prosthetics & orthotics7251 West 20th Street, Building MGreeley, CO 80634 Phone: (970)330-9449 Fax: (970)330-42172500 Rocky Mountain Avenue, Suite 2100North Medical Office Building Loveland CO 80538 Phone: (970) 619-6585 Fax (970) 619-6591Website: www.hanger.comProfessinal: Ben Struzenberg, CPOMichelle West, Mastectomy Fitter

rehaBilitation

ascent at life care center 4800 25th StreetGreeley, CO 80634Phone: (970)330-6400Website: www.lcca.comProfessionals: Annie BennettLeslie Vail

Banner rehaBilitationPhone: (970)350-6160

peakView Medical center5881 W. 16th St.Greeley, CO 80634Phone: (970)313-2775Fax: (970)313-2777

skin carekecias skin care @ center for woMen’s health1715 61st AvenueGreeley, CO Phone: (970)336-1500 Professinal: Kecia Doll, Licensed Esthetician

skilled care/rehaB

Bonell Good saMaritan708 22nd StreetGreeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)352- 6082Fax: (970)356-7970Website: www.good-sam.com

Grace pointe1919 68th Avenue Greeley, CO 80634Phone: (970) 304-1919Website: www.gracepointegreeley.com

speech and lanGuaGe

unc speech lanGuaGe patholoGy clinicGunter Hall, Room 0330 Greeley, CO 80639Phone: (970)351-2012/TTYFax: (970)351-1601Web Site: www.unco.edu/NHS/asls/clinic.htmProfessionals: Lynne Jackowiak, M.S., CCC-SLPJulie Hanks, Ed.DPatty Walton, M.A., CCC-SLPMark Guiberson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

sports Medicine

Mountain Vista orthopaedics 5890 W. 13th Street, Suite 101Greeley, COPhone: (970)348-0020Fax: (970)348-0044Web Site: www.bannerhealth.comProfessionals: Randy M. Bussey, MDDaniel Heaston, MDThomas Pazik, MDShelly Remley, PA-CKelly R. Sanderford, MDSteven Sides, MDLinda Young, MDnorth colorado sports Medicine1801 16th StreetGreeley, COPhone: (970)392-2496

speech lanGuaGe patholoGy

Banner rehaBilitation center1801 16th StreetGreeley, COPhone: (970)350-6160Fax: (970)378-3858

surGery General & trauMa

Bariatric surGery (ncMc)1800 15th Street, Suite 200Greeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)378-4433866-569-5926Fax: (970)378-4440Professionals: Michael W. Johnell, MD

surGery western states Burn center (ncMc)1801 16th StreetGreeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)350-6607Fax: (970)350-6306Professionals: Gail Cockrell, MD Cleon W. Goodwin, MD BURN

surGical associates of Greeley pc (ncMc)1800 15th St. Suite 210 Greeley, CO Phone: (970)352-8216Toll Free: 1-888-842-4141Professionals: Lisa Burton, M.D.;Michael Harkabus, M.D.; Jason Ogren, M.D.;Samuel Saltz, D.O.; Robert Vickerman, M.D.

urGent care

suMMitView urGent care2001 70th AvenueGreeley, CO 80634Phone: (970)378-4155Fax: (970)378-4151www.bannerhealth.comProfessionals:Thomas Harms, MDAmy E. Shenkenberg, MDLinda Young, MD

uroloGy

Mountain Vista uroloGy5890 W. 13th Street, Suite 106Greeley, CO 80634Professionals:James Wolach, MDCurtis Crylen, MDwww.bannerhealth.com

Veins

Vein clinic (ncMc)1800 15th Street, Suite 340Greeley, CO 80631Phone: (970)378-4593Fax: (970)378-4591Professionals:Maurice I. Lyons Jr., DOKenneth M. Richards, MDGene E. Tullis, MD

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www.EhrlichSubaru.com • 970-353-7707 • 866-413-55788TH

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HIGHWAY 34

8TH AVENUE & HWY 34 BYPASS

GREELEY, COLORADO

GREELEY

2012 SUBARU OUTBACK 2.5i

UP TO 34 MPG

$3995 Down Payment $0 Security Deposit $189 First Months Lease Payment $595 Acquisition fee

$4779 Total Due At Lease SigningTO FINANCETO FINANCE

$22,714 $24,070 MSRP - $1,356 Ehrlich Discount

PER MO.LEASE/36 MOS.10,000 miles per year.

OR $3995 Down Payment

PER MO.LEASE/36 MOS.10,000 miles per year.

$189

.9%UP TO 36 MOS.

[1] 2.9%UP TO 72 MOS.

[2]CDA-01FROM FACTORY ALLOCATION

2012 SUBARU IMPREZA 2.0i CVTCJB-01From Factory Allocation

UP TO 43 MPG

$1795 Down Payment $0 Security Deposit $149 First Months Lease Payment $595 Acquisition fee

$2539 Total Due At Lease SigningTO FINANCETO FINANCE

$18,401 $19,240 MSRP

PER MO.LEASE/36 MOS.10,000 miles per year.

OR $1795 Down Payment

PER MO.LEASE/36 MOS.10,000 miles per year.

$149

1.9%UP TO 36 MOS.

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