By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Kenny Van Horn doesn’t remember the first month he spent in a Kearney hospital. He can’t recall the 11 days when a ventilator pumped oxygen into his weakened body or the moments when his wife Patty stood helplessly in a nearby hallway, wondering whether the love of her life would survive. “It’s a weird feeling,” Van Horn says. “Where did that part of my life go?” By all accounts, the longtime custodian at the … [Read more...] about ‘God didn’t want me yet’: UNK employee Kenny Van Horn recovering from COVID-19
CHI Health Good Samaritan
Lopers give footballs to newborns, hospital patients
By SARA GIBONEY UNK Communications KEARNEY – Running back Romero Cotton is used to taking handoffs in the University of Nebraska at Kearney backfield. On Monday, he took a handoff in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at CHI Health Good Samaritan – in the form of newborn twin Avienda Breeden, whose mom Stacy handed her and baby brother, Dylan, off to Cotton and UNK teammate Tyke Kozeal. “This puts things in perspective,” said Cotton. “It’s not always about football … [Read more...] about Lopers give footballs to newborns, hospital patients
