RMH

Diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma

“Pain is what gave it away.  He had a large tumour in his abdomen. It didn’t stick out, so we didn’t know. It was actually very large and he was just three and a half so a very small person.

It had spread to his bones and so it hurt everywhere. And the pain was random. It would be in his arm, then in his leg and his neck. It was kind of difficult to figure out why he had jumping pain.”

“Because Jamshid is getting a transplant and his immune system is being wiped out, we thought we can’t sit on the subway with a bunch of people who are going to work with just a cough of a sniffle --- not enough to keep them home --- but it could kill him. 

We weren’t sure what to do.”

“Being able to stay at RMH Toronto, is really the best solution for us. We can walk back and forth to the hospital as many times as we need to, and just not have to worry.”

“It’s bigger and it’s brighter and it’s so much nicer than we could have expected.  These spaces, like the library, these common, quiet public spaces are so beautiful, and so comfortable and inviting that I don’t feel like I’m in some institution.  It’s a beautiful carpet, and it’s lovely floors and a nice comfortable couch and I can just come and relax here and unlike a hotel not be worried about people who are going to see me with my feet up and my head back.”

“We are luckier than even we know.  We know that we can never fully understand what everybody has done for us.”

“It’s so generous and maybe they (donors) don’t know the full extent of what they are providing for us, but it has really been a saving-grace for us.”

Corinne, and her family stayed at Ronald McDonald House Toronto for 38 days.