Category: Events
Stroller Spotlight: My New Lease on Life
Help support people living withAutoimmune Liver Disease, like Nancy.Continue below to read her story. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT A New Lease on Life My liver story begins in July 2000. My boyfriend, Jeremy, and I decided to take a summer holiday to Edmonton and Calgary to visit family, and during our trip […]
Stroller Spotlight – A Happy Ending
Stroller Spotlight – Honouring Larry’s Legacy
Help support people with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and those who care about them. Continue below to read Rita Helmig’s story about her husband, Larry. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Honouring Larry’s Legacy My husband, Larry Gibson, was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) in late 2006. He had been to multiple doctors for […]
Stroller Spotlight – 89 and Counting
Help support awareness and education of liver disease, like Dr. Francis Ho. Continue below to read how he has advocated for people living with liver disease. My name is Dr. Francis Ho, and I am a retired family doctor living and working in Vancouver. I am 89 years old and […]
Stroller Spotlight – Fighting the Stigma of Liver Disease
Help fight the stigmafor people living with liver disease.Continue below to read Abby McKinnon’sstory about her father, Dale. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Fighting the Stigma of Liver Disease: My Family Legacy It was mid-July in 2013 that my father, Dale, went to see his family doctor with harsh pains in his abdomen. […]
Stroller Spotlight – Paying it Forward
Help support people living with autoimmune liver disease, like Heidi Dean. Continue below to read her story. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Paying it forward In April 2016, not long after I turned 40, I began experiencing horrible pain along my sternum. My doctor sent me for a series of tests, and, after […]
Stroller Spotlight – Strolling for Dad
Help support families living with liver disease, like the Mercier Family. Continue below to read Édith-Émelie’s story about her father, Paul. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Strolling for Dad I lost my dad to liver failure on April 1, 2020. My father had been living with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) for several […]
Stroller Spotlight: Living the New-Liver Life
Help support people living with a liver transplant, like Deb Troppmann. Continue below to read her story. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Living the New-Liver Life In mid-September of 2013, I entered the hospital with flu-like symptoms and an extremely bloated belly. After days of tests, procedures, and interventions, it was determined that […]
