Ben woke up one night in 2019 with stomach pain. He was taken to his local hospital before being transferred to the Stollery. Doctors found Ben had an unfavourable Wilms tumour, a type of childhood kidney cancer. Ben and his mom Erica join 630 CHED Afternoons. 

For the first six years of her life, Kalena was in and out of the emergency room and doctors didn't know why she was sick. Once she was transferred to the Stollery, her family got some answers over the course of five days. Mom Amber joins 630 CHED Afternoons. 

At just two months old, Morgan was rushed to the Stollery with seizures where she was diagnosed with a form of epilepsy. She dealt with seizures, as many as 900 in about a year, until she had brain surgery at the Stollery last April. 

Aleena's parents noticed her development was not progressing as expected and she was more tired than other kids her age, so they brought her to the Stollery where she was diagnosed with an extremely rare progressive disease. She joins 630 CHED Afternoons and even graces us with a little song. 

Named by an Elder and through ceremony, the Awasisak Indigenous Health Program was developed to service Indigenous pediatrics and their families at the Stollery, U of A, RAH NICU and Sturgeon NICU. Coordinator Chrystal Plante joins 630 CHED Afternoons.