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Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• 'Invisible in plain sight.' Childhood cancer upends Iowa families (amestrib.com) — A Norwalk family's harrowing drive through a blizzard to treat their 4-year-old's leukemia anchors a deep look at how childhood cancer reshapes lives across Iowa. You'll learn how distance to treatment, long-term side effects, and limited support systems strain families, and how groups like Children's Cancer Connection and new state research funding aim to help.
• Healthcare workers face soaring health insurance costs (crossroadstoday.com) — A retired healthcare executive in Norwalk is cutting groceries, delaying doctor visits, and keeping her home uncomfortably warm just to afford health insurance after pandemic-era subsidies expired. Her story is one of several showing how rising premiums are pushing even healthcare workers nationwide to drop coverage, self-treat, or take financial risks to stay insured.
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