Tag: stroller spotlight
Stroller Spotlight: Butterfly Dancing Woman
Stroller Spotlight: Butterfly Dancing Woman – Celina Thibault Trigger warning: references to physical abuse, premature birth Celina Thibault has been a volunteer with the Calgary Chapter of the Canadian Liver Foundation for more than 15 years when her journey with liver health began. In 2004, Celina was diagnosed with Primary […]
Stroller Spotlight – Gonzalo & Manon Fiallos
Stroller Spotlight: One in a Million – Gonzalo & Manon Fiallos Gonzalo Fiallos lived a busy life, and admittedly, didn’t take the best care of himself. An extremely heavy drinker, in 2017, Gonzalo started feeling unwell and not his typical self. His health was in a steady decline: he started […]
Stroller Spotlight – The Ho’s Association
Stroller Spotlight – Walking for Change: The Ho’s Association The Ho’s Benevolence Association of BC is a group of more than 20 families, who together, work to raise funds and awareness for various causes – with liver health at the centre of their focus. The former Association President, the late […]
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. […]