Mikah is not your everyday superhero
I was 14 years old and halfway through my grade eight finals when I was diagnosed with high-risk leukemia. That was when my life changed forever. I went from being an annoying little teenager to a “mature” one in a matter of minutes. To be very honest, I don’t actually remember being diagnosed.…Sounds weird right? I know. It was like that for most of my treatment actually. I guess it’s my brain’s way of protecting me, which I am extremely grateful for. I have had to rely on the memory of my parents for some of this.
Volunteer Spotlight: Hoppy
To mark National Volunteer Week, we’re celebrating another outstanding volunteer — Hoppy! Val (Hoppy) Hopwood first bounded into our lives at Kids Cancer Care in 2006. Since that time, she has volunteered every year with one exception. “I’ve volunteered at camp every single year except for the year I was married.” Even though she was […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Shalaka
It’s National Volunteer Week and we want to celebrate some of our amazing volunteers. This is Shalaka, a.k.a. Galaxy. She’s a med student at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. When Shalaka’s not poring over medical books and preparing for exams, she’s back at home in Calgary where she volunteers for Kids Cancer […]
Sammy’s Story
Sam’s battle with cancer started in October 2015. Sam jumped on his brother and got a bump on his face that just wouldn’t go away. We were fortunate that our family physician was suspicious, did some blood work, and diagnosed it as Leukemia. This was such a scary time for us, made worse as it […]
Going the distance for kids with cancer
In Johannesburg, South Africa in the early ‘70s, a little girl named Walda was diagnosed with a brain cancer. She was five years old and her life was forever changed. Now, 43 years later, in another city, on another continent 15,815 kilometers away, a little girl named Nina was going the distance for Walda and children like her in the Kids Cancer Care Cycle Challenge.
Healing Made Possible by You
Anne Cameron’s journey with childhood cancer began when her 13-year-old son Ty was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Ninety per cent of his blood cells were cancerous. That whirlwind journey still confounds her 11 years later.