When Alycia from Bathurst, New Brunswick, was three years old, her mom, Danika, noticed something wrong with her eye. One looked smaller than the other, and her cheek was swollen. She thought that perhaps their cat had scratched her eye.
IWK Patients
Henry was 14 months old when he was airlifted from his local hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick, to the IWK in June 2022. He was fighting a trifecta of common viruses and was in respiratory failure.
Thanksgiving Day in 2017 began as an ordinary day for the Gootjes family of Quispamsis, New Brunswick. After a hockey practice and a family dinner, their oldest daughter, Marissa, went to a friend’s house to watch a movie.
Ever since her first menstrual cycle at age 12, Maggie, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has struggled with debilitating pain.
In 1996, Jeff Ward and his late common-in-law partner, Lori Ann, gave the IWK a very special gift—a dreamcatcher.