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From Child in Care to Supermom
May 5, 2021 Peggy Guimond’s wish this Mother’s Day? To simply enjoy time at home with her family. Beyond that, she wants to give her children the best lives possible, filled with love. That’s been her goal from even before becoming a mother herself. “I want my...
We Are What We Eat
March 25, 2021 March is Nutrition Month! This year, St. Boniface Hospital’s 20 dietitians on staff are reminding everyone to support healthy living by eating what is “good for you.” It is simple advice, but healthy eating looks different for everyone, says Tiffany...
Make the Right Call
February 12, 2021 It was December 23rd, and Rosauro Rosales, 57, was relaxing with his common-law partner, Genesis Mallen, and her sister, Yzel Mallen, in their St. James home. Rosales had called his sisters in Toronto for a chat earlier in the evening. At around 9...
Communicating Kindness
January 14, 2021 It’s never too late to say ‘thanks’. A Winnipeg woman has reached out to St. Boniface Hospital to express her gratitude for the excellent care her late brother received before, during, and after his surgery at the Hospital in January 2018. “Our family...
Mason and Brooke
Born at 27 weeks, Mason, now 4 years old, shows he's as strong as the foundation his parents have given him. Photo courtesy of Chopp Photography Mixed emotions overtake Brooke Vandal when she passes St. Boniface Hospital, as on one August day following a family photo...
Pillow Talk
Doug Wark has high praise for St. Boniface Hospital staff after open-heart surgery. As a bonus, now well into retirement, he learned something new about the company where he built a three-decade career. The Brandon resident, 73, underwent double bypass surgery and an...
From Nunavut With Love
The nurses in St. Boniface Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) called Cassandra Gordon’s baby “Wild Child”. He was a little fighter who wouldn’t give up – from birth, he showed everyone he wasn’t going to be defeated. Gordon and her baby, Kenneth, live with...
Realtor Gets Really Great Care
The business of everyday life isn’t cancelled this year – as Matthew Nicolas can tell you. Life goes on in the pandemic. Matthew knew this well, from his work as a Realtor with Royal LePage Dynamic Real Estate. Then, in early October, he became one of more than 13,000...
Coming Back From COVID
From a hero’s welcome home, to the lingering reminders of his battle with the virus, recovering COVID-19 patient Rick Sterzer is taking life in stride. Home is a peaceful cove in St. Vital, where all the neighbours know Sterzer and his wife Shannon Morden-Sterzer, and...
Lucky 13
First as a boy and all through junior, senior, and beer league hockey, Sean Barnes has worn number 13. So on July 30, as Barnes found himself in station 13 at St. Boniface Hospital's Bergen Cardiac Care Clinic for the insertion of a stent in his left anterior...
“Left untreated, I would die.”
A nasty case of pneumonia saved Dylan Hill’s life. At only 42 years old, Hill was fit and healthy. He had been in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves for five years, and passed the required physicals. He had even run a full marathon in 2007 without any obvious signs of...
There’s No Stopping Him
Dr. Lloyd Axworthy sat down on a bench in the Arrivals area of Winnipeg Richardson International Airport after disembarking. He was out of breath. “Maybe I’m getting old,” the veteran Canadian politician and humanitarian thought to himself. “Maybe it’s something...