When you’re caught up in the trials and tribulations of every day life where everything seems like a constant battle it takes someone like Mikey Reilly to make you realise that life is something you should be thankful for.

Diagnosed with cancer at just eight months old Mikey became a constant visitor to the Children’s Hospital where over the years doctors and nurses battled against the disease.

But during that time he never complained about the hand that life had dealt him, instead he was a beautiful, courageous and outgoing little boy who stole the hearts of everyone he ever met.

Through the stories that Christine has so gracefully shared with the world I felt like I came to know Mikey and loved reading about his Valentine’s Day “date” with one of the support team, and his beautiful friendship with Summer Sanders. As a fellow lover of Disney World the recollection of him dancing with the princesses in the parade will stay with me and I’ll think of Mikey next time I’m standing on Main Street USA.

When this mother of three received the shocking diagnosis that would change her life she felt like she was dropped into a raging river; a river which she refused to drown in as she worked with her doctors in conjunction with natural medicines to try and fight this incurable cancer that had taken over her body.
Carrie Host has poured her heart and soul into this book; sharing with her readers the most intimate details of her fight against carcinoid cancer. From her thoughts and feelings to her interactions with her family and the details of her surgeries Carrie has documented her fight against this life-threatening disease in a journal style memoir.

On her death bed, at the age of twenty-six, Pam implores her sister to write their story. To tell the world what they lived through. It is some years later before Heather puts pen to paper, to tell the story that “lies somewhere between truth and memory”. But the story she tells is powerful and insightful. Of the sheer determination on the part of her parents, who found the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in an attempt to help Pam and other children who suffer with CF. Of her turbulent teenage years, where she finds herself torn between emotions of guilt for being healthy and anger and jealousy towards her sister. Of her younger brother Jeff, who is also born with CF, but lives in the shadow of Pam, whose disease is more virulent and life threatening.