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Donating bone marrow can be a life saver

Jonathan Garcia jgarcia@foghornnews.com Del Mar College’s Student Nurses Association recently attended the National Student Nurses Association convention in Dallas. While attending, they were introduced to a German based company named DKMS, a national organization to aid fighting against blood cancer. There, the SNA board members Kelsey Nuccio, president; Christina Squyres, vice president; and Melissa Gomez, secretary signed up to be potential bone marrow donors being put on a national bone marrow registry. Blood cancer such as leukemia and lymphoma start in the bone marrow where blood is produced and requires new marrow through a procedure one of two ways. “Seventy-five…

Here’s how the IceRays changed over time

You might have seen me write about Corpus Christi’s ice hockey team, the IceRays, for the past couple issues. It’s may seem weird that a South Texas city has a hockey team, but what’s even weirder is that they’ve been around for 25 years. Their design has changed a ton in this time, and they recently changed again this season. Let’s look at their past looks. 1998 – 2003: CORPUS CHRISTI ICE RAYS This city’s history with hockey begins on Oct. 13, 1998, when the Corpus Christi Ice Rays took to the ice for the first time in the now-demolished…

Slow and steady recovery

A Juvenile Green sea turtle swims in circles in a large water tank. With wing-like strokes he glides through the water, lopsided. He is trying to swim like a normal sea turtle, but he is struggling. A large bulging tumor has grown under his right flipper, throwing him off balance. To him, the sheer weight of it is comparable to a brick.  It is unclear whether this Juvenile Green is aware of the severity of his life-threatening condition, but if there is anything that is certain, it is that he is not alone. Many other species of sea turtles in…