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For CHEO staff, Arielle Roy and Kayla Dudas, a small step for their patients represents a major sign of progress.

“Throughout my journey, I have been committed to gaining people’s trust and supporting them. I feel obliged to be a positive member of society,” says Mustafa.

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Ginette Boucher enters CHEO on a bright morning in late May where she spots her mom, Lucienne Markwell, as they meet up for a special tea date, and one can see her immediate childlike joy.

Meet Maia Popovic, child and youth counsellor with CHEO’s Eating Disorders Day program

When Maia was 17 years old, her best friend confided in her that she had an eating disorder. Confused and saddened that her friend, who portrayed such beauty and confidence, could be struggling so much, Maia turned to Google to try and find her friend some help.

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Meet Jessica McAdam, Registered Nurse First Assistant with Perioperative Services-Operating Room

“CHEO is the community that gave me a permanent home,” says Jessica, a registered nurse (RN) with CHEO since 2009. Growing up in a military family, Jessica spent her childhood moving across North America.

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At six months pregnant, Fei Fan immigrated to Canada from China. At the time, little did she know the role CHEO would end up playing in her life or that it would become the place that would guide her in her early days as a mother to her newborn son Gabriel.

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At the age of three, Mary Lynn underwent cardiac surgery for a congenital heart defect. Little did she know this would be the start of a long relationship with CHEO and the people who healed her.

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Following in the footsteps of many of the women in her family, Sarah completed her consolidation at CHEO on 6East 21 years ago. While she left CHEO to start her nursing career, those few months in her final placement left a lasting impact on Sarah.

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At just 14-years-old, Kelsey LeJeune was admitted to CHEO following a serious stroke. For Kelsey, this was the beginning of a long road to recovery – from a stay in the pediatric intensive care unit, to outpatient rehabilitation with Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and many other follow-ups with a variety of specialists.

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As a child, Mari remembers weekend afternoons sitting in the x-ray department while her mom was on-call as a CHEO radiologist. But it wasn’t until an accident involving losing the ends of two of her fingers on an exercise bike that Mari experienced what it was like to be a CHEO patient.

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