Senna When becoming a parent for the first time, nobody prepares you for the worries that start the second your baby is born. With every little twitch, hiccup or cough, you wonder, is that normal? In most cases, the answer would be yes, but for Senna, the answer was a...
Matteo It’s hard to say when exactly it was that we fell in love with the MAB-Mackay Rehabilitation Center. Looking back, it was probably some time after our son Matteo was recovering from his successful stem cell transplant, when he was taken under the wing of...
It was one of the most difficult moments in our lives. Even though he was asleep, seeing my beautiful baby boy strapped to the bed for an MRI test, only to find out that our life would be filled with challenges. Zachary was born five weeks premature. I remember that...
Avi It was a beautiful, early spring day, and the sun was melting the last of the snow away. Montrealers were reveling in the warmth of the sunshine, as we walked forebodingly to our son’s appointment with his pediatrician. It was a day we will never forget – our...
River Although we thought we were fairly well-prepared for our first baby, some things you just can’t plan for. Our son River was actually born in the ambulance on the way to the hospital! We’ll never know exactly what happened, but something went wrong just before or...
Matty We still remember it like it was yesterday. Sitting in front of a neurosurgeon as he told us that our infant son had a condition called hydrocephalus – a word we’d never even heard of before. Our son Mathieu (affectionately known to all as Matty) had cerebral...
