Can't Keep Her Down

Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 Health & Life: Be your MLB: Rays, Yankees own best advocate /Page A14 begin ALDS /Page B1 TUESDAY TODAY CITRUSCOUNTY & next morning HIGH 90 Scattered LOW showers, breezy. 73 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com OCTOBER 6, 2020 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 125 ISSUE 364 NEWS BRIEFS Virus cases the week of Sept. 28-Oct. 5 Citrus COVID-19 update BUSTER THOMPSON According to the Florida De- an average of 13.57 cases a day, Citrus County’s cumulative Staff writer partment of Health in Citrus compared to the average 14 rate of positive coronavirus Eleven new positive cases were re- County (FDOH) on Monday, cases a day during Sept. 21-28. test results on Monday was at ported in Citrus County since the latest Citrus County trickled closer Oct. 5, 2020, 2,846 locals have Also since Sept. 28, COVID- 10.59%, up from the 10.50% FDOH update. Two new hospitaliza- to 3,000 documented COVID-19 tested positive for the novel 19 hospitalizations went up 10 from Sept. 28. tions were reported; two new deaths cases after reporting more coronavirus. to 295, and seven more people Covering September, the were reported. than 750 infections over the It’s an increase of 103 cases died, for a total death count of To date in the county, 2,846 people course of September. since a week ago on Sept. 28 at 110, according to the FDOH. See VIRUS/Page A7 have tested positive (including eight non-residents), 295 have been hospi- talized and 110 have died. CCSO investigates shooting at store Citrus County Sheriff’s Office detec- Can’t keep her down tives continue their investigation into a shooting incident from early Sunday morning outside a convenience store near Crystal River. Deputies responded just before 2 a.m. to a disturbance at the Circle K near North Citrus Avenue and West Dunklin Street, where a large group was gathered and shots were fired, sheriff’s spokeswoman Brittney Car- man said Monday morning. No injuries were reported, no deputies were involved and an arrest has not yet been made, Carman said. This story will be updated once more information becomes available. Tipsters can contact Citrus County Crime Stoppers to share more information with authorities anonymously and be eligible for a cash reward. To do so, call 1-888-269-8477 or visit crimestopperscitrus.com. Vehicle collision kills man, injures woman A man was killed and his woman passenger was seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon in the Dunnellon area in Marion County. According to a Florida Highway Pa- trol (FHP) report, which doesn’t dis- close the identities of those involved in a fatal crash, the collision occurred at around 3:04 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Southwest 93rd Lane Road. MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle FHP’s report states a 77-year-old Laura Byrne, center left, sits in her Tampa home with her family that includes daughters Kaitlyn, left, and Ashley and her husband, man was driving with a 76-year-old Jim. Mrs. Byrne is being treated for breast cancer but has also dealt with the effects of COVID-19 which she and her family have woman in a sedan, and the Dunnellon contracted and since recovered. couple was westbound on Southwest 93rd Lane Road. They stopped at the intersection with Laura Byrne has lost much — but hasn’t lost her sense of humor U.S. 41 before continuing west through NANCY KENNEDY But she also tends to put herself last. “In December 2019, I said I can’t ig- the junction and into the path of a Staff writer A year before being diagnosed with nore this anymore and signed up for pickup truck driven by a 30-year-old breast cancer, Byrne had learned she ‘Obamacare’ ... and in February or man from Ocala, according to FHP. aura Byrne loves to laugh, espe- had a small lump in her right breast March the doctor said, ‘Absolutely, this As a result, the truck struck the se- cially at herself. and her doctor wanted her to have an is cancer’ and here I am, recovering dan’s left side, pushing the vehicle to L She’s positive and strong, fo- MRI. from a double mastectomy,” she said in the northwest corner of the intersection. cused, ambitious and driven. And, as “My insurance company wouldn’t a September 2020 telephone interview. After being transported to a hospital, she would tell you, a little bit crazy — all cover it, and I couldn’t afford it,” she She said she has lost her hair, lost the sedan’s driver was later pro- attributes that serve her well as execu- said, “and I thought it was probably her breasts, but she hasn’t lost her nounced dead; his passenger suffered tive director of We Care in Homosassa. just fibroids anyway since cancer does drive or ambition, nor her sense of serious injuries, according to FHP. “I want to feed everybody in the not run in my family anywhere. Then I humor. Nether the truck’s driver or his world, not just people in Citrus had no health insurance and the lump County,” she said. kept getting bigger. 6-year-old passenger, also of Ocala, See BYRNE/Page A2 were injured. Everyone involved were wearing seatbelts, according to FHP. Separate fires destroy Myths surround Q&A: The basics RVs, mobile home A fire destroyed a pair of RVs at an Inglis-area RV park and almost claimed the lives of two dogs trapped inside. breast cancer of breast cancer Citrus County Fire Rescue (CCFR) MICHAEL D. BATES changes (or mutations) in cer- crews responded to the blaze at Staff writer tain genes passed from par- Information about signs, 5:49 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, at ent to child. the Big Oaks River Resort off of West Unless people experience The vast majority of people River Road, according to CCFR on breast cancer in their own who get breast cancer have no screenings, treatments, risks Monday. lives, or they’re close to some- family history, suggesting that BUSTER I To learn more about Firefighters from CCFR’s station in one who does, they might not other factors must be at work, THOMPSON breast cancer from DeRosa arrived first at 6:02 a.m. to find be able to separate myth from such as environment and Staff writer two RVs on fire — one fully involved fact when it comes to this lifestyle. the American Cancer Society, visit tinyurl. with the flames, and the other 50% disease. I MYTH: If you maintain a Knowing and learning involved. Breast cancer is one of the healthy weight, exercise regu- about breast cancer can com/y4kd93mu. To Bystanders were able to evacuate better-known and more- larly, eat healthy and limit al- be one of the best ways to see information from the vehicles’ occupants, except for a talked-about cancers, but cohol, you don’t have to worry help fend against it. the CDC, visit tinyurl. pair of dogs. Firefighters entered the there are still many about breast cancer. Here are some ques- com/y9mlwe2n; the I FACT: Although these be- RV and saved the canines before turn- misconceptions. tions and answers about National Cancer haviors can help lower breast ing them over to Nature Coast EMS for Breastcancer.org has in- the second most common Institute, tinyurl. cluded some of the more com- cancer risk, they can’t elimi- oxygen treatments, according to cancer among women in com/ycggj8r6. mon myths. Here they are: nate it. CCFR. the United States, accord- I MYTH: If I don’t have a It’s common to hear this other organs through ves- No other injuries were reported. ing to the American Can- family history of breast can- from newly diagnosed cer Society, the Centers sels or the body’s lymph- Firefighters were able to control the cer, I won’t get it. women: “I eat healthy, I’m at a for Disease Control and node system. fire by 6:15 a.m., and the Florida State I FACT: Most people diag- healthy weight, I’m active, Prevention and the Na- Most breast cancer cells Fire Marshal is investigating the blaze. nosed with breast cancer and I barely drink. So how did tional Cancer Institute: start growing in a woman’s CCFR crews from Connell Heights, have no known family history. I end up with breast I What is breast cancer, milk ducts or milk- Homosassa and Citrus Springs also Many people think of breast cancer?” and are there different producing lobules, usually assisted. cancer as an inherited dis- There is evidence that all types? Cancer begins when forming as a tumor that’s A separate fire from Sunday night ease. But only about 5–10% of these behaviors can help cells in a person’s body seen on a mammogram also destroyed a mobile home in breast cancers are believed to lower your risk. However, multiply out of control, X-ray or felt as a lump. Hernando. be hereditary, meaning they can’t guarantee you’ll originating in a particular No injuries were reported. they’re caused by abnormal See MYTHS/Page A2 area before spreading to See Q&A/Page A9 — From staff reports Classifieds . .B5 Crossword . .B8 INDEX Lottery Numbers . .B2 Obituaries . A6, A13 Comics . .B4 Editorial. A11 Lottery Payouts . .B2 TV Listings. .B3 Horoscope . A4 Nation/World . A4 Health .

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