Stories

Owen and Dylan’s Story: Surviving Adrenoleukodystrophy

Parents don’t always want their children to carry on family traditions. Jason and Darlene knew that adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) ran in their f...

For Ryan, it started when a cold passed through his family. As the youngest, six-month-old Ryan was the last to come down with it…but after t...

“I really didn’t understand my diagnosis; I was very hungry and just wanted a doughnut to eat,” recalls 11-year-old Mathew Odette about t...

Any child diagnosed with cancer has the battle for their life ahead of them. However, what if you lived in a third world country and didn’t k...

When you are 16, 14 and 11 years old, the last thing you want to hear is that you can’t have friends over. Luke’s brothers and sister are u...

Before he was old enough to talk in complete sentences, Josh, an animated, sweet-natured toddler, would wake up every few mornings and say, “...

“Life came to a sudden halt when Gabrielle was diagnosed with osteosarcoma,” says Gabrielle’s mother, Tami. That was in 2006, and life is...

Vision is important. Whether it’s the sense of sight or the ability to picture your future goals as reality. Take 9-year-old Sydney; she want...