Author: John Oliva

Student’s father faces several; illnesses, hopes for new kidney At age 12, Ruth Frausto remembers being helpless when her father fainted and was rushed to the hospital in kidney failure. “My dad doesn’t have a good kidney and is getting a new one soon. He has diabetes and high blood pressure too and it makes me feel sick to see him in pain,” Frausto said. Frausto and her sisters offered to donate their own kidney to their father. “We were thinking about it, but he didn’t want to take it from us,” Frausto said. “It makes it seem like he’s…

Former Del Mar student Natalie Murphy is no stranger to hardships, which is how she knew she could bounce back from Hurricane Harvey. “You know it can happen, but it’s one of those things that you don’t think is ever going to happen to you,” said Murphy, who lived in Aransas Pass with her husband and three sons when the storm struck. Murphy wanted to leave when she heard Harvey had become a Category 1 hurricane, but her husband did not want to. The next morning they checked the weather and found out Harvey had quickly turned into a Category…