How We Heal Podcast: Michael Bischoff
In this episode of How We Heal, a podcast collaboration between CaringBridge and End in Mind, host Brigid Bonner talks with reporter Cathy Wurzer about a framework for healing based on a person’...
Through Pandemic, Civil Unrest Baby Brings ‘A Ray of Sunshine’
On April 22, 2020, Areya Borsellino was born 13 weeks early, in the midst of a global pandemic, and spent her first months in a Minneapolis hospital NICU close to where George Floyd died in police cus...
Long-Haul Effects of COVID Will Not Take Her Breath Away
Brenda DeAnda’s plans for summer 2020 did not include a diagnosis of COVID-19, pneumonia, respiratory arrest, having a ventilator breathe for her, and now that she is finally back home, a portab...
Sister Act: Facing Cancer, and the Future, Together
The vanKoeverden sisters of Rochester, MN, want you to know they were Ana and Elsa way before the Frozen franchise came along. And to answer what starstruck little kids ask all the time: No merchandis...
Roller Derby Helped ‘Mad Catter’ Skate Through Breast Cancer
Cat Thisius of Rochester, MN, is a preschool teacher by day and a roller derby blocker by night who goes by the name of “The Mad Catter.” Her profession and pastime fall into the category of “ch...
Words of God Gave Mom-to-Be Peace Through Cancer
At her 7-month prenatal checkup in Minneapolis, MN, in November 2018, Sarah Hanan was focused on passing her glucose screening so gestational diabetes could be crossed off her list of expectant-mom wo...
Years After Loss, Grief Still Surfaces as ‘Price of Love’
My husband, Tom Vinje, was diagnosed in March 2008 with a glioblastoma brain tumor. He passed away seven months later, in October 2008. We were together 11 years, married for nine. Tom was one of thos...
CaringBridge Was an Anchor for Mom of Wounded Soldier
The phone rang at Joanne Dowd’s home in Delaware on Oct. 26, 2015, with the news every military mother dreads: Her son, Brian, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, had been severely injured where he ...
I’m Grateful for my CaringBridge Community, and Always Will Be
In February 2017, at age 32, I was diagnosed with a glioblastoma. Other than a few strange weeks right before my MRI that found the brain tumor, I had no idea anything was wrong. We had just settled i...
After Leg Amputation, Child Re-Defines What it Means to Risk Life and Limb
When Vincent Lynick, was born in 2014, his parents, Sally and, Michael, of Burnsville, MN, did not know anything was wrong with his leg. But when he was 2 days old, doctors told them Vincent was ...