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SUMMER 2022 | VOLUME 37 Bella's Transplant Journey
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Message from the Chairman
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Message from the CEO
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Bella’s Transplant Journey August 2022 will mark two full years of waiting for the Thomson family. It will mark two years
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Message from the SVP, Fund Development
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Message from the Director of Family Relations
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Bella's Transplant Journey Continued
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Gold Mining with Avenue Family Dental
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Sharing Smiles this Summer
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A Night On Broadway Raises Record-breaking $11.2 Million!
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2022 Visionary Award Winners
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Partner Spotlight: The Simon Keith Foundation
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Thank You to All Our Partners
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medical team hoped would improve her quality of life. Unfortunately,
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the procedure did not work, and Bella would remain in the hospital for
of hearing the phone ring and wondering if it is a medical professional calling to say that they have matched Bella to a bowel donor who
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will save her life. Two years of always trying to remain positive but always having the “what-ifs” at the back of their mind. Bella was born in 2013 and Kyla and Lyle were overjoyed to welcome their first child. At only three days old, Bella was air ambulanced to the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, SK as she was continuously vomiting and obviously suffering from painful distension. Bella was diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s disease, which is a disease that affects an infant’s intestines and makes it impossible for them to have bowel movements. She was rushed into an emergency surgery that the
the first two years of her life. During these two years, Kyla and Lyle also learned that Bella was
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born with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and a form of
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dwarfism called cartilage hair hypoplasia. On top of all of this, she needed to have a bone marrow transplant when she was just a year
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