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Holiday in hospital still fulfilling for local family
Relatives give loved one a special Christmas as she recovers from stroke
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Dessie Martin helps her sister, Elizabeth Worley, open Christmas presents at the transitional care unit of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center on Thursday. Worley had a stroke on Dec. 14 and has been getting therapy for the damage caused to the right half of her body due to the stroke. Christmas marks the half-way point in Worley's 20 days in therapy. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Elizabeth “Bea” Worley suffered a stroke Dec. 14, effectively changing her family’s Christmas plans. She lived with her sister, Dessie Martin, and her brother-in-law, Roy Martin, in Jefferson, but now she’s staying at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s Transitional Care Unit. Thursday, the Martins visited the Transitional Care Unit at New Horizons Limestone to celebrate Christmas with Worley.