February 2022

“His friends have no idea what he has gone through.”

By |February 25th, 2022|JIA, Rare Disease Stories, Stories, Vancouver Centre Stories|

I don’t know if there can be a ‘typical’ journey for a young child who receives a Juvenile Arthritis diagnosis. But this is Linden’s story so far. When Linden got sick at 18 months old, we thought it was just a cold. But then came an unusual rash and his walking deteriorated. We visited [...]

Artist, Lacrosse Player, Friend, Big Sister – How I Learned to Love Who I Am

By |February 10th, 2022|JIA, School, Stories, Vancouver Centre Stories|

Hello, my name is Grace Parker Palidwor. I was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis when I was 18 months old. In the first few years of my diagnosis, I don’t remember much except that I believed that every child was exactly like me. I believed that all my friends woke up with stiff joints [...]

July 2021

Meet Sofia. She’s transforming lives in the JA community as a Cassie + Friends Youth Research Advisor.

By |July 13th, 2021|Advice, Current Events, Research, Vancouver Centre Stories|

A vital part of the work we do at Cassie + Friends stems from our involvement in important research in the pediatric rheumatic (PR) disease community. Over the past decade, we’ve helped endow a research chair, fund a new international post-doc, build one of only three PR labs in Canada, launch a pain-app and [...]

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