When ten-month-old Lilianne began to walk, her parents noticed that something just wasn’t right.
As she grew, her hip began to make a clicking noise. She was referred to the IWK where she was diagnosed with developmental dysplasia of the hip.
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Mya was the 2018 Change Challenge Hero. She began fundraising for the IWK when she was three years old when she brought all of her piggy bank money down to the live Radiothon broadcast.
In 2012 when Lauren began high school in her hometown of Moncton, NB, she started to experience symptoms of Selective Mutism (SM), an anxiety disorder that left her unable to speak in specific situations.
Soon, Lauren’s SM progressed to the point where she could only speak at home.
At 18 months old, Eva Lee’s behavior changed virtually overnight.
She stopped talking, stopped using utensils and started using her hands to eat. Her parents initially thought her behavior was out of jealousy toward her new sibling, but her symptoms continued to worsen.
Hannah from Hillsborough, New Brunswick knows the devastating impacts of mental illness. Living with an eating disorder for more than two years, Hannah and her family credits the IWK Health Centre with saving her life.