97-Year-Old Credits Harmonica as Key to Long Life
Stacey Blank remembers the day she first read about an innovative tool for her chronic lung patients. The Coordinator of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department at the Western Maryland Health System describes it as “something outside the box.” Blank’s career objective was to help her patients breathe better. “You don’t realize how tough it is to live everyday and be short of breath,” she says. She became instrumental in the nationwide Harmonica for Health Program through the COPD Foundation (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in conjunction with the Academy of Country Music …