Survivor stories

[Vivian de Klerk] At the age of 23 I was diagnosed with a very rare, chronic and debilitating bone marrow disease called Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH).  This disease is a genetic [...]

Michaela Shoebotham is a 32-year old wife and mother of 2 gorgeous boys.  She is also a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (cancer) patient having been diagnosed with cancer for the third time and after an [...]

[Jonathan Ancer] Dr Marc Hendricks handed me a piece of paper. It was a jumble of letters and numbers that resembled gobbledegook computer code, but that piece of paper represented hope. It was a [...]

How quickly one’s life can be turned upside down. In June 2012 after eight year old Rose-Leigh Usher had complained of severe abdominal cramps and her mom had also noticed red spots on her face [...]

After being treated with complicated mumps along with many other complications, Jamie-lee Caple was diagnosed with Leukaemia in May 2005 at the age of 14. She went from being a care free teenager [...]

Eight years ago, what should have been just appendicitis, turned out to be my worst nightmare come true.  After having my appendix removed, the surgeon advised me to seek advice regarding my low [...]

Just over 3 years on from my original survivor story to The Sunflower Fund, I have yet another story to tell. After having my stem cell transplant on the 2nd December 2010, and being declared in [...]

The 12th January 2012 will forever be etched in the minds of Durban teenager and Glenwood High School pupil Kyle Skidmore and his family. For it was on this day that he received a second chance [...]

Before I begin with my story I would like to thank my amazing husband, Greg, my special parents, my brother & sister in law, my entire family & all my precious friends as well as Suzanne [...]

I am a happily married man to Lynne with 3 wonderful kids, Kimberly (21), Sarah (17) and Jayson (14). I have been working as a consulting engineer for BBE in the field of mine ventilation and [...]