Hit-and-Run Victim Moves On, Without Anger
There’s no reason to dwell on it and be mad about it, because I can’t change it. Even if I did know those things, my recovery’s the same. Finding out who hit me doesn’t help me...
Double Lung Transplant Forces Mom to Put Herself First
In my mind, I just kept realizing I can’t be his mom right now, I have to focus on me, I have to focus on the healing to be able to get where I need to be.
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Karate Kid Delivers Roundhouse Kick to Brain Tumor
I named my brain tumor Joe Bully. He’s the worst bully ever. Joe Bully is really, really, really mean, and he messed with the wrong boy.
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Goodness of Being Together Makes Family Whole Again
There will always be pain for us, just under the surface of our hardened skin. But the goodness of us being together is healing.
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Family Made Healing Choice to Just Slow Down
Homemade slime has helped make whole again the Bratland family of Shoreview, MN, after 4-year-old Trip suffered devastating injuries in a car crash in April 2013, on the way to preschool. Jars of the ...
In Her Son’s Honor, Mom Finds the Good Within the Bad
Some days I don’t think I can help myself, never mind others. But it’s just something you have got to do. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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Moms Feel Gratitude for Sons’ Survival
In addition to being moms of sons starting a new school year, Erica Bratland, Claire Schwab, Amy Beasley and Nicole Pierson, none of whom have met, have something else in common. Their hearts are full...
To Mark Baby Brighid’s 20th Birthday, a Visit to Birthplace of CaringBridge
JoAnn Hardegger, center, mom of Baby Brighid, for whom CaringBridge is named, visits the NICU at Children’s Minnesota, on what would have been her daughter’s 20th birthday. Nurse Kathy Ger...
Life After Stroke: 3 Ways to Keep Aphasia From Getting in the Way of Good Conversation
Three years after experiencing a shower emboli stroke, CaringBridge author Christine Richards of Wyoming said she still speaks with a “stroke accent.” Chris is living with aphasia, an effe...
Life After Stroke: Daughter Says Support Keeps Mom, and Family, Strong
A single event can change the course of your life and you may never see it coming. On April 4, 2014, just three days after her 56th birthday, my Mom suffered a stroke. By the end of that day, what sta...