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Some of the hardest parts of Turner syndrome do not show up on a growth chart or a heart scan. They show up in the quiet. The girl who notices she is shorter than every friend in the class photo.…
Every year on February 6, the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. It is a hard day to read about. For some women, it is not a topic at all. It is a memory…
There is a kind of tired that a nap does not fix. You go through the motions of the day, you answer the messages you have to answer, and somewhere in there you stop doing the small things that used…
Some changes happen to your body, and then they keep happening to the rest of your life. A feeding tube is one of them. It can keep you alive and keep you strong, and it can also sit quietly between…
Every February, Canadians wear red for Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week. Families share photos. People tell stories they have carried quietly for years. Most of the attention goes to the physical heart, to the surgeries and the scans and the…
Slowly losing the ability to read a loved one's message, recognize a familiar face, or look out at a view you have always known is one of the quietest, hardest losses a person can carry. For many older Canadians living…
Every February, something quiet happens across this country. For one month, more people than usual let themselves say the thing they have been carrying. That the mornings have felt heavier. That the worry has not let up. That they are…
February is Heart Health Month in Canada. You will see red everywhere, and you will hear plenty about cholesterol and getting to the gym. There is a quieter part of the story that gets left out. Your heart and your…
A cancer diagnosis does not stay in the body. It moves into the quiet hours. It sits at the kitchen table while the rest of the house sleeps. It shows up in the long pause before you tell the people…
An eating disorder rarely arrives all at once. It moves in quietly, dressed up as discipline or willpower or "just being healthy," until one day a person realises that food and their own body have become the loudest thing in…
