By KRISTI EATON
Health
A cooling breeze ruffles the trees that border Gardens Park in Summerlin. Rising in a cloudless sky, the bright morning sun causes a boy on the playground to ask mommy for his shades.
The wishes of a Utah woman to donate her organs before she killed herself outside a St. George hospital Friday might have gone unfulfilled.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed the Southern Nevada Health District last year that two cases of Legionnaires’ disease had been possibly linked to the Aria. But it wasn’t until last month that local officials tested the water at the posh Strip resort and discovered the type of bacteria that causes the disease.
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.
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.