Illness

Real Life, Real People

What hope remains when your life is turned upside down?

Earlier this year, Christian lifestyle brand Jacob Rachel (JR) began an intimate and wonderful little series called “Community Stories” on their Instagram page. There they shared personal...

Illness

For weeks I struggled to breathe, until it all changed one night

Four years ago, I began an intensive jogging programme in an effort to improve my fitness and energy levels. But instead of becoming fitter, I became increasingly short of breath. In a cruel irony, I...

Illness

Living with pain that doesn’t go away

Not many people know about this, but I struggle with chronic pain. It’s mostly deep in my neck and back. A combination of injury and poor posture. And that would be bad enough as is… But...

Family

A father’s love: All his 3 children have a rare genetic disorder

Every one of us has our fair share of family problems. We may even say our loved ones have caused us some form of suffering. But for one father David Lang, even the diagnosis of a fatal genetic...

Health

“I was blind but now I see”: Finding God amid diabetes, blindness and kidney failure

When I was 10, my mother noticed ants crawling around the toilet bowl after I had used it. I had also suddenly become prone to fainting spells, and could not put on weight no matter how much I ate....

Disabilities

A close brush with death left her without hands and legs, but she’s never felt more alive

In 2018, Carole Ann was admitted to hospital due to a sharp abdominal pain. It turned out that a ruptured ovarian cyst had put her in a life-threatening condition. During the month-long coma, her...

Health

When I found out my mum had cancer… again

5 March 2017. It was a Wednesday evening, and I had decided to take a GrabCar home from school in order to make it back on time for dinner with my parents. Mum hadn’t been feeling well for the past...

Health

158 days with Joy, our miracle baby

When 44-year-old Lee Chii found out that she was pregnant, the news came as a shock but also brought excitement. Happy that they would be parents again, Lee Chii and her husband, David, went...

Health

There’s always something to give thanks for, says this breast cancer survivor

When I first felt a lump in my breast, I never thought I would be diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer. After all, I was the fittest I had been in a long time. I had just completed my basic training for the...