From the moment Luke was born, he would scream and scream. All his milk would come back up, and he began to refuse the breast. We tried formula, but the same thing happened. He was hungry, would try to drink, then pull away and cry. I was told it was colic. I was told he was being “naughty” and that it was behavioural. I was told it was allergies. We saw a gastroenterologist when he was 14 months old, and she performed a scope that confirmed EoE. It is a delayed reaction alle

When Aiden was born, we had never heard of Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). The condition causes severe blistering and shearing of the skin. Aiden’s first blisters appeared when he was just five days old. Our doctors here were at a loss. He was treated with antibiotics because they believed it was an infection. We eventually got an appointment with a specialist dermatologist when he was eight months old. A skin punch biopsy was taken from his hand, and that’s when the diagnosis of

I have been living with a clotting disorder for 16 years. I was only 20 when I experienced my first DVT and pulmonary embolism—and I didn’t even realise what was happening at the time. I was very active, so I assumed I had pulled a muscle in my leg. I was limping badly, and my mom told me that if it wasn’t better in three days, I needed to see a doctor. I brushed it off, insisting it was just a muscle strain. On the third night, while bathing, I noticed my leg had a bluish co