Health, Illness or Medical

Joni + Cole had a beautiful healthy baby girl on Feb 12, 2014.  I was at the birth and it was a miracle, there were tears all around as we met her for the first time.  Joni took her in for a regular 2 week checkup and the doctors found an ...

Most of you have followed my story for the past almost two years. I've been asked by many to update here. I was diagnosed with a 17lb tumor two days after the birth of our son, Stoney. After a battle to get to a higher level of care I went to Baylor Dalla

Ezra is planning to sell his motorcycles and camper to pay his bills. I'm hoping, with your help, this won't be necessary.  Many of you know that Ezra has been going through an aggressive treatment for colon cancer in the last 8 weeks. He's ...

As many of you know, sweet little Laurel Taylor began having health problems near the end of 2014. It quickly became serious and she has now been in the hospital since December 15. She and her parents were flown from Vancouver Children’s ...

Jessie is an amazing artist, advocate, and dancer with Down syndrome. At the age of 25, she had a stroke and was diagnosed with a rare disease called Moyamoya. In January, after neurosurgery in Boston, Jessie had another stroke. Family costs mounted!

On March 20 Joe DeMott was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. The cancer was too big to operate on and had spread to his liver and lymph nodes. Joe will be starting a very aggressive form of chemotherapy this week with the hopes of ...

Curtis McDonald has been in hospital since February of this year. He has been diagnosed with Limbic Encephalitis or inflammation of the brain. The cause or trigger is still unknown. His health has steadily and rapidly declined. He is only 33 years ...

Hi I'm Jayne I'm a 48 year old mum of three. Around eight years ago I was struct down by the incurable illness that is multiple sclerosis also known as MS and since then it has changed my families life dramatically. Going from a full time personal trainer

I would like to start by saying that I tried really hard to keep this as short as possible.  Even though it appears very long, I have condensed the story and I could have written several more pages.  My name is Tani and my daughter Rose was a ...

Reece was a fit healthy young man, when in May 2013 two weeks after his 20th birthday he had a bleed on the brain. He had surgery after which the surgeon advised us that the bleed was caused by an AVM (Arterial Venous Malformation) which was as ...

Friday the 18th January 2013, my sweet little brother Tom’s life changed forever, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with a brain tumour. Everything happened so quickly and on the 23rd January he survived a very dangerous and difficult brain surgery. ...

Ethel, 72, called the AHIP office last week with a big problem. Not only was her roof was leaking and in terrible condition, but her homeowners insurance company said they would cancel her insurance next month if she didn’t get it replaced. Ethel ...