by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 28, 2025
April 1, 2025 Paul Fontaine, of Winnipeg, came close to death one week before his 33rd birthday. At the time his wife, Shay, was eight months pregnant with their second child. Fontaine was diagnosed in June of 2021 with complete heart block caused by a rare...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Mar 13, 2025
March 13, 2025 The pain Anne Main felt that night was only discomfort, not agony. Imagine her shock when her cardiologist at St. Boniface Hospital later told her having it checked out had saved her life. Main and her husband, Bob, ran a bed and breakfast near Russell,...
by Mark Kruk | Mar 3, 2025
March 03, 2025 Danny Carroll was lying in the back of an ambulance in August of 2018. He was having a heart attack at age 63. At that moment, he heard a voice. “Did you get this gentleman’s Manitoba Health Card number?” it asked. Then Carroll heard another voice in...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Feb 21, 2025
At age 68, Hemant M. Shah experienced a cardiac arrest that nearly took his life. He spent 19 days at St. Boniface Hospital, seeing first-hand the compassionate and gentle care you make possible. Shah was at home with his family in June of 2021, making plans to...
by Cindy Leszczynski | Nov 18, 2024
November 18, 2024 The call came out of nowhere: “You’re in serious heart failure, Dean. You need to get to St. Boniface Hospital.” Dean Desrochers and his wife, Jenn, were in their Wolseley home getting ready to go to a surprise party for his friend’s 50th birthday...
