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.

For four days straight, I’d been seeing double multiple times a day—watching TV, squinting at my computer screen, or just gazing out the living room window. It didn’t particularly hurt, but it did come with a side of the wobbles. I called around to a few optometry clinics to book an appointment. No dice.