As we celebrate Black History Month, I think of how far we’ve come and still have to go regarding race. Being a mixed-race child raised...

I have had the privilege of attending multiple Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders (CORD) Conferences over the last few years. It is...

Click here to watch Jo-Anne Mainwood interview on CTV News Ottawa --------- Jo-Anne Mainwood has been living with Pulmonary Arterial...

I suffered from osteoarthritis for many years, or so I was told. I broke bones easily and had two knee replacements, one in 2013 and one...

My Husband Ron and I married in 1997. I didn’t know then, but the shortness of breath and fatigue I had been feeling for the previous...

In July 2015, I came down with what I thought was a chest cold that never seemed to get better. I spent the next three months going to my...

I first started noticing symptoms approximately seven months after the birth of my second child in 1996. In April 1997, I was diagnosed...

In 2016, I was an active 32-year-old. My boyfriend and I were trying to have a baby, and pulmonary hypertension, a disease I had never...

Having lived with PAH for over 12 years, I vowed never to let it control my life. Our family loves to travel, and I was not about to hold...

The first time I heard the words, "I think you have Scleroderma and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension" was in January of 2012 was from my...

I applied to join the PHA Canada Board of Directors in 2018 because I wanted to give back to the PH community and contribute towards...

Twenty years ago, I first heard the words pulmonary hypertension. An emergency CT scan sent me to the hospital. I was in congestive heart...

15 years. Wow! Has it been that long since the small group of us got together with a vision of starting a national organization in...

Emily's story is featured by  Patient Voice   * “I was working as a litigator in Toronto when I was diagnosed with chronic thromboembolic...

Greetings. My name is Stephen Winter, and I’m from Oakville, Ontario. I want to share my story about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary...

My journey to chronic illness has been a long one. My official diagnosis came in 2007, but I’d had signs and symptoms for quite a long...

The 21st anniversary of my PH diagnosis came, and I had to pinch myself. I started thinking about all the things that happened on the...

Esther's story is featured by  Patient Voice  * “Since I moved to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago, I’ve always been on the go — working,...

Being the mom of an ambitious, artistic dreamer has been a fun journey. From a very young age, Brinley always said, “mom, I want to...

My name is Michael Mayville, and I live in Toronto with my wife, Nicole. We are the proud parents of two children: Vance, our 8-year-old...