Dave Fleischer’s symptoms were easy enough to explain away. His eyesight was deteriorating, but then again, most of his family members wore glasses. His hearing was worsening, but hearing loss ran in his family, too.

Lyndsay Horrigan was getting regular headaches, to the point they were becoming her normal. As an assistant executive housekeeper at a hotel in Edmonton, Alta., and mom to then-four-year-old, Olivia, Lyndsay’s headaches began interrupting her job and her family life.

Jane McNulty-Smith lived a content and blissfully “normal” life in Newmarket, Ont., where she raised two kids, Darryl and Pamela, with her husband, Steve.
That would change when she received her own diagnosis of glioblastoma.