Growing up with JDM - Layla’s experience My experience with the healthcare system started earlier than most. I was diagnosed with Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM), a rare autoimmune disease that affects the muscles and skin, and since then, the Montreal Children’s Hospital has been a constant part of my life, [...]
Radiant Resilience: Isla the JDM Warrior It was fall of 2021 and Isla was 6 years old. Her life was pretty much centred around her unwavering excitement for Halloween and being able to wear her unicorn costume to go trick-or-treating with her best friend, Alice. Over the month of October, [...]
Sophie Finn is a student, a C+F Youth Ambassador, a soccer coach, and a JDM warrior. This is her story. My story began in Grade 7, when I started to experience unexplained pain in my lower back. At the time, I was playing soccer and my goal was to make it to university. As [...]
I want to let you know why I am walking this Charity Challenge for Cassie and Friends. “Autoimmunity is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an 'autoimmune disease.'" My dad’s cousin Gladys Marie [...]
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