by MarketSmart | Jan 26, 2023
SickKids saved my son’s life. When he was six he became sick with a bacterial infection that turned into sepsis. Sick Kids emergency services retrieved him from the smaller hospital we were in as he was going into septic shock and brought him for emergency surgery and...
by MarketSmart | Jan 26, 2023
My first experience with sick kids was nearly 40 years ago. I was born in a third world country with a congenital disorder which my birth country did not have adequate treatment for. As the first born, my parents were willing to do anything to get me adequate care and...
by MarketSmart | Jan 26, 2023
I am now 90 yrs old, In the 1950’s my 4 children 3 sons & 1 daughter were taken to Sick Children’s as soon as they were born to have transfusions due to RH negative factor. We were young and had no family in Toronto, and because they were admitted as a new patient...
by MarketSmart | Jan 25, 2023
My story started with my 3 year old Laurel who was sent to another hospital with a simple cold that had triggered her asthma. She wasn’t getting better then collapsed. I thought she was dying literally in my arms and nurses rushed to aid her. They looked as scared as...
by MarketSmart | Jan 25, 2023
When I was a child I was very sick with tuberculosis diagnosed at 5 years old. I caught it from a janitor at a nursery school I attended. I spent grade one in a hospital. As time went forward I developed an incurable lung disease and had to have part of my lung...
