Sean Carter: Sometimes Life Just Happens
04.25.19
Fourteen years after barely surviving a drunken-driving crash in which he was a passenger, Sean Carter of College Station, TX, still closes his emails with the words, “I will talk. I will walk a...
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Doug O’Donnell: Find a Group of People to Walk Beside You
04.25.19
When Davis O’Donnell of Fulshear, TX, was diagnosed at 4 months with retinoblastoma, cancer in both eyes, his parents, Lianne and Doug, questioned the expression, “God won’t give you more th...
Jeff Edwards: Do the Best You Can, With What You Have
04.19.19
Jeff Edwards of Herman, MN, fell from roofs and crashed dirt bikes as a kid, parachuted into dangerous places with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and faced potential harm for 13 years as a s...
For Passenger in Drunken-Driving Crash, Healing is ‘Forever-Long Journey’
03.15.19
Fourteen years after barely surviving a drunken-driving crash in which he was a passenger, Sean Carter of College Station, TX, still closes his emails with the words, I will talk. I will walk again.&#...
After Spinal-Cord Injury, ‘Protect and Serve’ Takes New Shape
03.11.19
Jeff Edwards of Herman, MN, fell from roofs and crashed dirt bikes as a kid, parachuted into dangerous places with the U.S. Army’s 82 Airborne Division and faced potential harm for 13 years as a she...
After Child’s Brain Injury, Family Looks Ahead, Not Back
02.12.19
Just 18 months old when a drunk driver plowed into her in the front yard of her suburban San Antonio, TX, home in 2009, Ava Lopez remembers nothing of a trauma impossible for her family to forget. And...
‘A Miracle in Front of Us Every Day’
12.14.18
When her parents ask Olivia Hammond of Bryan, TX, to show what her little brother’s heart looks like, the adorable 4 year old makes the familiar shape with both hands. Then she takes half of it ...
Family, Friends Help Carry ‘Burdens of Life’
12.05.18
When Davis O’Donnell of Fulshear, TX, was diagnosed at 4 months with retinoblastoma, cancer in both eyes, his parents, Lianne and Doug, questioned the expression, “God won’t give you more th...
Faith Carries Family Through Son’s Cancer Journey
11.21.18
Over four years, 6-year-old Jaxson Martinez of Uvalde, TX, endured three cancer surgeries, seven rounds of chemo, 18 radiation and immunotherapy treatments, and 40 blood and platelet transfusions. But...
Photographer’s Lasting Image of CaringBridge: A ‘Sacred Place’
04.24.18
CaringBridge is a sacred place in the online world. It is beautiful. And rare. I say this as a National Geographic photographer who has seen many beautiful and rare things. But nothing quite like Cari...