By BRIAN SODOMA
Health
Like most locals, Kelly Orbeck and Alex Chavira steer clear of the Strip the way a camper steers clear of poison ivy or grizzly bears. Yet here they are, standing atop the Wynn Las Vegas garage at the ungodliest of hours – 7 a.m. — on a Saturday, no less.
About one in four Nevada kindergartners is obese, according to a recent report, which might seem startling but doesn’t surprise Diana Taylor.
Although she always wanted to have children, at 27 years old Trina Mills was single and not thinking of a future family when she learned she had a bone marrow disease that could require chemotherapy. Doctors didn’t mention the treatment would likely leave her infertile until the San Diego-resident’s mother asked.
Divine intervention could be what is needed to keep Anahi Hernandez and dozens of other Nevada children and adults from an unending sound of silence, now that officials at University Medical Center, the last hospital in the state to offer cochlear implants, have said it is has become financially impossible to continue the procedures.
