Northeast Radio SD News – Watertown, SD - A routine medical checkup turned into a life-or-death emergency for Ashley Veen, a former guest on Northeast Radio SD and a stylist at Prestige Salon in Watertown, South Dakota, after doctors discovered an active aortic dissection—a critical, life-threatening tear in her body’s main artery. Airlifted directly to the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, Veen successfully underwent emergency open-heart surgery to repla