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...
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...
Have you ever struggled to offer help to a patient or family caregiver? It can be just as hard to know what is needed as it is for them to ask for help. CaringBridge partnered with a team of technolog...
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 ...
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.
...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...
National Family Caregivers Month, held every November, was created to share an appreciation for family caregivers around the country. Learn more about how this month got started, past themes, and some...
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...
In the rush of medical appointments and questions from loved ones after the symptom of headaches turned into a brain-tumor diagnosis, Caroline Wright’s aunt pointed her toward CaringBridge in 20...
