Lehigh Valley Health Network announces revenue boost, introduces swimming medalist

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/index.ssf/2012/12/lehigh_valley_health_network_a.html#incart_river FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES For 14 years after a nerve disease left her unable to walk, former Whitehall High School swimmer Noga Nir-Kistler wouldn’t go in a pool. “When I was paralyzed, I was afraid to get in the water,” said the 33-year-old Allentown woman with Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy, a disease with no cure that left her unable to use the lower half of her body. “I was afraid I was going to sink like a rock.”