On Halloween 2017, Sarah Martinez took her 8-year-old son Macario out for a night of trick-or-treating with his cousins in their Portland neighborhood. Macario, known as Macky, started feeling unwell after a short walk to the first house, so they turned around and headed home. It was then that Sarah sensed something wasn’t right. A […]
Brenna Lindsley was 38 when learned she had breast cancer last spring. This year, she celebrated her “Cancerversary” by traveling to Scotland by herself.
For the past 30 years, the OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care has become a nationally recognized leader for end-of-life and compassionate care.
Susan Tolle, MD, has spent her career as one of the leading voices for end-of-life and compassionate health care.
Hometown: Bend, OR Diagnosis: brain cancer Shoe: Nike Zoom Pegasus Turbo 2 Sawyer was training as a competitive gymnast when he started feeling dizzy at practice. “It kind of felt like there was a ping pong ball in my head when I did flips,” he explains. A brain scan revealed an egg-sized tumor in his […]
Hometown: Vancouver, WA Diagnosis: congenital heart defect, heart transplant Shoe: Air Jordan XIV Retro Good luck keeping up with Ethan Ellis. This athletic, mile-a-minute guy is passionate about basketball and dreams of playing professionally one day. You’d never know from his wicked sense of humor and upbeat attitude that he’s endured six open-heart surgeries (three […]
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