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02.24.20
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...
12.20.19
I first became a CaringBridge author in March 2012, after my husband, Bob, was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called POEMS syndrome. It is a shirt-tail relative to cancer, and required Bob to ha...
12.19.19
When her husband was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, Kelly Fosso Rodenberg became a caregiver. She used CaringBridge to keep family and friends updated, and said she was surprised to discover ho...
11.26.19
After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer when she was 32, Caroline Wright of Seattle struggled to find the right kind of book to help her two young sons understand what was happening. So she d...
11.26.19
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...
11.26.19
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...
07.24.19
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 ...
06.21.19
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...
06.20.19
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...
04.26.19
Juan Martinez of Uvalde, TX, is a firefighter and EMT who says his wife, Judy, is the strongest person he knows. But this dynamic duo didn’t feel brave or strong when their 2-year-old son, Jaxson, w...
