Dawn
When Heather, a mother of four from Kelowna, BC, took her six-month-old daughter, Dawn, to get her immunizations, she was shocked to find out her baby had been losing weight – about two pound...
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Mike
Mike Walker and his family have spent the past several years braving illness—in more ways than one.
For two decades, Mike and his wife, Francine, cared for their daughter, Celine, who had a ...
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Rowan
Bumps and bruises come with the territory when you’re a two-year-old. But when Katie’s son, Rowan, returned from a camping trip with his grandparents in the summer of 2017 with a swolle...
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Jamie
“I try to say cystic fibrosis doesn’t define my life, but in many ways it has,” says Jamie Chaulk. “It has to, because it’s such a big part of who I am.”
Jamie,...
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Cindy
Having lived with Hepatitis C for a number of years, Cindy Schmuland was running out of time. She had contracted the virus from a tainted blood transfusion in the 1980s, and while her medical team ...
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Lorraine
Sit, stand, kneel. Repeat. At Sunday morning mass those are the actions of the congregation; an age-old set of customs in which everyone participates. But for Lorraine Howard it was not possible to...
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