Lebanon, PA — A Central Pennsylvania woman is celebrating her 101st birthday all thanks to a team of doctors who decided to defy the odds.
“[She’s] 101 years old and several days-two weeks- earlier, there was a real possibility she wasn’t going to make it to this milestone,” says Dr. Grant Sorkin, the Surgical Director of York WellSpan Health’s Stroke Program.
Dr. Sorkin says ‘time is brain’ and in October Loretta Schade’s life was on the line.
“She was having difficulty moving the left side of her body. She was having difficulty with the awareness of the left side of her body,” says Dr. Sorkin after Loretta was life-flighted from her home to WellSpan York. “She was having a major stroke.”
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