National Organ & Tissue Donor Awareness Week The David Foster Foundation is recognizing and honouring National Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness Week (NOTDAW) on April 24 – 30, 2022. NOTDAW is celebrated through awareness campaigns and encouraging individuals to register as organ donors. It takes two minutes to register, please register online today and share your wishesRead more
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When Beth was born, she was diagnosed with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS). BBS is a disease with many complications including kidney failure. Beth’s extremely low kidney function caused lung disease and her mother, Erin, remembers Beth’s first year as incredibly difficult as the family navigated her medical needs. Beth spent the first eight months of herRead more
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Khai’s Transplant JourneyIn August 2017, Julia Macleod was 15 weeks pregnant with her son, Khai, when she went in for a prenatal ultrasound. At that ultrasound, the medical team told Julia that her baby had gastroschisis, a condition in which the organs are found outside the body, exiting through a hole beside the belly button.Read more
Nate has struggled with intestinal failure since he was born. After numerous attempts to be free from TPN (IV nutrition), it failed. He was required to travel to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, ON from his home in Maymont, SK to be assessed for a transplant in November and was subsequently listed for transplant onRead more
Rosalie (Rosie) was born on February 23, 2018, at home. She came into the world so quickly that the family’s midwives didn’t have time to make it to the house, so she was welcomed into the world by her parents, Samantha and Brian, and her siblings Gia and Waylon. The next day, Samantha and BrianRead more
