All Shannon Marston wanted to do was sleep. A wife, the mother of a 10-year-old boy and a third-grade reading and science teacher, she had been struggling to sleep through the night for about five years. By last summer, she was sleeping only in rare patches. 

“I was probably awake more than I was asleep during the night,” says Marston, 39, of Lawrenceville. She would wake up crying out of sheer exhaustion and often stay awake Read full story

George Barry had planned to go fishing on a Thursday in late January near his home in Brunswick County. Instead, around lunchtime he visited his buddies at a construction site. “[I thought I would] go over there and tease and tell them, ‘Wouldn’t you rather go fishing with me than work?’ ” he says with a jovial smile. He had retired after more than 40 years in construction, painting and carpentry. But 60-year-old Barry, whose Read full story