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I still struggle. I don’t want to pretend that everything is OK because it’s not. But I’m still here. International Women’s Day

‘Beauty beyond the pain’ Faced with a lifetime of relentless adversity, Carrie Tailleur hopes her story will give strength to others facing hardship Amy Reid

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Carrie Tailleur is one of four women sharing their stories of courage at Nightshift Street Ministries’ Unmasking the Truth event next Monday at Eaglequest Coyote Creek. (Photo: AMY REID)

ifficult doesn’t begin to describe Carrie Tailleur’s life. A born survivor, her story is one of courage and strength. Tailleur has fought polio, suffered a stroke while already in ICU, raised two children as a single mother, found herself in a wheelchair after being diagnosed with osteoporosis and she watched her youngest daughter lose her life to drugs. Her life has been a series of obstacles and tragedies that began before she started Kindergarten. Somehow, she’s still smiling. Stories of adversity like Tailleur’s will be front and centre at a Nightshift Street Ministries-hosted event called Unmasking the Truth next Monday. The event aims to showcase inspiring women and topics often hidden behind a mask, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Tailleur is one of four speakers. “Carrie, for me, is the epitome of physical pain, grief, loss, death, separation, divorce,” said MaryAnne Connor, Nightshift founder. “Then look at her. She is a survivor.”

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Unmasking truth Unmasking the Truth, an event in celebration of International Women’s Day, is set for 6 p.m. on March 7 at Eaglequest Coyote Creek. It’s an annual event put on by Nightshift Street Ministries and proceeds will support women’s initiatives at the group’s Care Centre. The event is now fully booked. To be added to the waiting list, visit Nightshiftministries.org. Amy Reid The modest, slightly shy 60-year-old paused when asked to tell her story. After all, there’s so much to tell. Tragedy first struck Tailleur at age four when she was diagnosed with polio, a highly infectious viral disease that attacks the nervous system. She was paralyzed from the neck down. “I was in an iron lung (also known as a tank respirator), and the doctors told my mom I wouldn’t walk again,” said Tailleur, sitting in a wheelchair inside Nightshift’s Whalley office. But walk she would. After a year and a half at Vancouver General Hospital, she was let out of isolation after hard work in her

physio and rehab. “I was able to leave with two long-legged braces that went from my waist down and crutches. I did that. That’s how I started school in Grade 1.” When she was nine, her parents heard about Shriners Hospitals for Children and she spent eight years going back and forth, having roughly a dozen operations. And of course, more physio and rehab. Eventually, she got by with just one long-legged brace. As she grew up, she began working, got married and had two children. Things were going well. Then she went through a divorce and found herself raising her children alone. “I had to work two jobs, not to give you a sob story, because he wasn’t able to pay child support, so I worked a full-time job and a part-time job. Brooke was 13 and Rochelle was 15,” said Tailleur. “They were too old for babysitters but they were too young to be left alone. That’s when it started.” “It” was drugs. Brooke’s poison was crystal meth. Tailleur sprung into action, putting her youngest daughter in several treatment centres. Nothing seemed to work. see STORIES › page 9

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