After my 18-month daughter, Ava, was nearly killed by a drunk driver in 2009, a good friend of mine started a CaringBridge site for us to keep everyone updated. He had used CaringBridge during his own...
In July 2017, at the age of 13, Carson Gigstad of Savage, MN, went from what his parents assumed was a perfectly healthy life to a heart transplant … in 11 days.
...By age 36, Amie Dahl-Muller of Woodbury, MN, was many things: A U.S. Air Force and Minnesota Air National Guard veteran, mom of three, wife, volunteer, activist—and a woman diagnosed with Stage III ...
You can never know where tragedy will lead. In my case, the tragic loss of my mother in 2015 led me to team with CaringBridge, on my way toward earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science. As the first and mo...
In a four-generation photo, I am holding my oldest son, on the day of his baptism. My Grandmother, Bessie, is at left, and my Mom, Bonnie, is at right. My Mom, Bonnie, has been gone since 2001. She di...
Since its launch in 1997, CaringBridge has offered a safe place for hundreds of thousands of patients and caregivers to turn after diagnosis, illness, injury, premature birth … any health crisis. Ou...
Fourteen years after barely surviving a drunken-driving crash in which he was a passenger, Sean Carter of College Station, TX, still closes his emails with the words, I will talk. I will walk again.&#...
Jeff Edwards of Herman, MN, fell from roofs and crashed dirt bikes as a kid, parachuted into dangerous places with the U.S. Army’s 82 Airborne Division and faced potential harm for 13 years as a she...
Just 18 months old when a drunk driver plowed into her in the front yard of her suburban San Antonio, TX, home in 2009, Ava Lopez remembers nothing of a trauma impossible for her family to forget. And...
Letting loose in his battery-powered Dodge Ram pickup is freedom for 7-year-old Kaden Kruciak of Cibolo, TX. And if ever a kid deserved to feel the wind in his hair—and the dust and dirt of off-road...
