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Matteo was eight years old when strange things started happening with his vision. At random times everything would become “pixelated,” as he would describe it to mom, Isabel. At the time, the family was living in Texas. Isabel took her son to a number of doctors, one of whom diagnosed Matteo with ocular migraines. It…

For a few years, twins Nolan and William had suffered from migraines, including excruciating headaches and vomiting. Though their parents, Sarah and Brent, had this looked into, there wasn’t really an explanation or reason. Then Nolan experienced a frightening transient ischemic attack (TIA), an episode with temporary symptoms similar to a stroke. He was rushed by…

Simon, like most little boys, loved dinosaurs, sports, and Disney movies. He also loved people and made friends everywhere he went. It’s how his family remembers him more than a year after his passing surrounded by love at Rotary Flames House following a short but courageous battle with cancer. It was the end of summer…

At Kendall’s 18-week ultrasound, she and her husband, Mike, found out their baby would be born with a cleft lip, and later they later learned little Elie also had a cleft palate. They were introduced to nurse Debbie McIntyre in the cleft lip and palate clinic at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, who gently walked them…

To say 10-year-old Parker had a rough start would be an understatement. Parker entered the world fighting for his life — a fight that would endure for years.  His mom, Ann had an emergency C-section at 33 weeks to deliver Parker and his twin sister, Emma. At only 48 hours old, NICU doctors noticed something was…

When Presley was three, she experienced a terrifying seizure. She’d been sick with RSV and one night, when her parents went to put her to bed, she just froze. She became stiff and non-responsive with laboured breathing. At the Alberta Children’s Hospital, rescue medication got everything under control, but of course, the experience had completely…

EXTERNE It was a Saturday in November when Raymond and Lyrhea received a call that would turn their lives upside down. Lyrhea remembers overhearing a few words from that exchange. Car Crash. Ambulance. Hospital. Railey, their eldest boy and a budding baseball player in their home city of Lethbridge, was the passenger in a car…

Within a few days of their twin girls’ birth in August, Beckie and Chris learned through an echocardiogram (echo) that one of the babies, Harper, had a hole in her heart, also known as a ventricular septal defect (VSD). The family was referred to pediatric cardiologist Dr. David Patton at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, where…

At the 20-week ultrasound, Alex and Jesse learned their baby would be born with a congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) – a condition where a mass of tissue or cyst develops as part of the lung. It was stressful news for Alex and Jesse, as this was their first baby and suddenly they were launched…

It was the first snowfall of the season and Joshua and his big brother, Caleb, were eager to get out on their sleds. Suddenly, Caleb reappeared back at the house. “I’ll never forget the look of panic on his face,” says their mom, Rolena. “He said, ‘Josh has been hit by a car!’” Rolena’s husband,…