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Vol. 13 No. 3
A Community’s Strength:
How North Grenville is rallying for Nick and Mandi
Nick and Mandi in happier days by Talia Hreljac Nick and Mandi Rideout are newlyweds who were looking forward to starting their lives together after a beautiful summer wedding. The last thing they expected was to put their vows, “in sickness and in health,” to the test so soon—but sadly, that’s been their reality. After returning from their honeymoon in Mexico, Mandi and Nick were excited to start their family. But, instead of the excitement
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for that new adventure, both of them fell ill with the flu. Thankfully, Mandi recovered, but Nick did not. After a visit to the Kemptville Hospital ER, he was transferred to the General Hospital in Ottawa, where the bloodwork results came back with shocking news. Nick has been diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer that requires multiple rounds of chemotherapy and other treatments to get him back
on his feet. While some of his treatment costs are covered, many are not, especially during his future recovery phase. And, to make matters worse, Nick and Mandi will eventually need to consider fertility treatments to have the family they had always dreamed of. When I asked how Nick was doing, Mandi said that the fertility portion was one of the scariest aspects of everything and something that is haunting the back of their minds as
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they try to navigate everything else. On top of the stress that comes with a cancer diagnosis, there are the everyday challenges: bills to pay, a mortgage due, gas to drive back and forth to Ottawa for treatment, the fertility costs they’ll have to face in the future, and even just the financial burden of take-out when there’s no energy left cont'd on page 2
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