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Fentanyl, cocaine contributed to death of former NHL player Jimmy Hayes | CBC Sports
Former NHL forward Jimmy Hayes, who passed away at age 31 in August, had fentanyl and cocaine in his system at the time of his death, family members told the Boston Globe.
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Fentanyl, cocaine contributed to death of former NHL player Jimmy Hayes
Former NHL forward Jimmy Hayes, who passed away at age 31 in August, had fentanyl and cocaine in his system at the time of his death, family members told the Boston Globe.
Hayes had a seven-year NHL career with the Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Panthers, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. His brother, Kevin Hayes, currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers.
A Boston area native, Jimmy Hayes also won an NCAA hockey championship with Boston College in 2010.
He was pronounced dead at his home in Milton, Mass., on Aug. 23. A cause of death was not available at that time, but Hayes' family recently received the toxicology report.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-first-person-rachel-grantham-1.6212276
FIRST PERSON | I was raised vaccine hesitant. Now I'm double vaxxed against COVID-19 | CBC News
I didn’t challenge some of the vaccine assumptions I learned in my childhood until I became seriously ill, writes Rachel Grantham.
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I was raised vaccine hesitant. Now I'm double vaxxed against COVID-19
I was raised by my father to be wary of vaccines.
Dad was a health-care professional. I had been vaccinated in my childhood for polio, smallpox and pertussis. Yet, for some reason, he decided that I would not receive the booster shots when I entered Grade 7. He and my mother had taken care of me through rubella, measles, mumps and chickenpox. "No more vaccines," I remember him saying. I was strong and healthy, so what could some boosters do that my immune system could not already handle?
Dad was all about taking responsibility for one's health by exercising, avoiding alcohol, and staying away from tobacco. Prescription drugs were a last resort. He worried about the increasing reliance on the array of pharmaceuticals that were becoming available in the 1950s and 1960s. Doctors were happy to prescribe them and patients willing to consume them. He worried about the rise of allergies and asthma in children and wondered if there was a correlation to the frequency of vaccination that was taking place. (There was not).
Challenging my assumptions
My wary stance was all tied up with honouring my father and his years of valuable work put in on the low rungs of the medical establishment. I was still rebelling against the oppressive mores of a previous era, where going to a counsellor was taboo, going to a massage therapist was weird, and the perils of smoking were ignored.
Then, one day in the early 2000s, I fell ill with a low-level fever. I developed a vicious, strangling cough that would leave me gasping for air as I hovered over the toilet bowl. It lasted for weeks. The residual effects lasted for months. I just couldn't get well.
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wary : careful because you do not completely trust someone or something or are not certain about what you should do
polio : a serious, infectious disease of the nerves of the spine that can cause temporary or permanent paralysis
( = inability to move the body)
Prescription : a doctor's written direction for the medicine that someone needs and how is to be used, or the medicine itself
resort : the fact that you have to do something because there is no other way of achieving something
reliance : the condition of depending on something or someone
elaborate : containing a lot of connected parts or many complicated details (adj)
to add more information or explain something that you have said (verb)
vicious : (of an act) intending to hurt badly, or (of a person or animal) likely to be violent
hover : to stay in the air in one place / A person who hovers stands near someone, wating for attention
snub : to treat someone rudely, esp. by ignoring that person