Clutching the phone, I collapsed to the floor and screamed, ‘No!’ ‘I’m sorry,’ my dad said helplessly. ‘I’m so sorry.’ It was ...
Clutching the phone, I collapsed to the floor and screamed, ‘No!’ ‘I’m sorry,’ my dad said helplessly. ‘I’m so sorry.’ It was summer 2020 and he’d just told me that he’d been ...
Doctors didn’t put two and two together. My dad, Clive, was incredibly fit and healthy Clutching the phone, I collapsed to the floor and screamed, ‘No!’ ‘I’m sorry,’ my dad said helplessly. ‘I’m so ...
Reddit user Wise_Organization_78 recently asked, "Cancer Survivors of Reddit, what was the symptom that convinced you to see the doctor?" As a hypochondriac, you better bet I read every response.
Nothing, it seemed, could deflect Irena Stoynova from her route to self-destruction. Hours from death and unconscious, she was admitted to a Surrey hospital last year after being 'brainwashed ...
Fatigued, breathless, filled with constant aches and pains in her ribs, and entirely lacking in energy, sales assistant Pritpal Kaur knew she was deeply unwell. “I could have slept all day ...
This is a First Person column by Carolina Avendano Duque, who lives in Calgary. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I have gone eight Mother's Days without ...