CaringBridge

10/12/2026

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲. 𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐀 𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬. 𝐍𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 💙
Start a free CaringBridge site in minutes. Share updates with everyone at once, skip the endless texts and calls, and let your people surround you with support when you need it most.
CaringBridge has stood beside family caregivers for nearly 30 years. You shouldn't have to explain it thirty times to have someone standing beside you.
👉 Start your free site today: https://ow.ly/v7sq50ZWTZY

10/10/2026

World Mental Health Day is a good moment to talk about family caregivers' well-being too.

Caring for a family member or loved one during a health journey often means managing appointments, sharing updates, and keeping everyone informed, on top of everything else already happening in daily life. This kind of ongoing responsibility can take a toll on one's mental health.

For some family caregivers, accepting help from friends or family can feel unfamiliar. Others find that a short break, a call with a friend, or a few minutes outside makes a difference on a hard day.

Caregivers need support too.

If you're a family caregiver, what has helped you take care of yourself this year?

10/08/2026

On February 5, Sinh texted his wife Ashlyn that he needed her. Minutes later, he couldn't speak or move the right side of his body. A brain bleed, caused by a rare condition called Moyamoya disease, changed everything for their family in an instant.

Ashlyn spent the next month splitting her time between the ICU and caring for their toddler, Jade, all while pregnant with their second child. She was getting around 70 texts a day from family and friends asking for updates. She needed a way to share news and requests for help in one place, without posting on public social media.

That's when she found CaringBridge.

Ashlyn created a CaringBridge page and connected their Meal Train and GoFundMe to keep everything in one place. Loved ones showed up in ways big and small: coworkers built a wheelchair ramp, and aunts repainted Jade's room to get it ready for the new baby.

Six months later, Sinh is home and recovering. He's regained the ability to communicate the way he wants, even if it's a little slower, and the family is preparing to welcome a new baby.

Read Ashlyn and Sinh's full story and see how CaringBridge helped them stay connected to the people who wanted to help: https://www.caringbridge.org/resources/the-biggest-little-things

10/06/2026

When someone you care about is going through breast cancer treatment, it’s not always easy to know how to support them. A few ways to help that tend to matter more than "let me know if you need anything":

1️⃣ Offer something specific. Bring a meal on a set night, pick up groceries, or drive to an appointment. Specific offers are easier to accept.

2️⃣ Follow their lead on conversation. Some days call for updates and encouragement; other days call for a distraction. Let them set the tone.

3️⃣ Stay in touch past the first few weeks. Support often shows up right after a diagnosis and fades as treatment continues, even though the need for it doesn't.

Kelly Siciliano experienced this while supporting her sister Brittany through breast cancer treatment. Sharing updates through CaringBridge helped their family keep a wide community informed without Brittany having to repeat her story to everyone individually. "With CaringBridge, we truly don't feel like we could have more support than we do," Kelly said. "It's really meaningful to know that somebody cares enough to subscribe to updates on how she's doing." 🩷

Read their story: https://www.caringbridge.org/resources/breast-cancer-battle-brings-sisters-together

10/02/2026

He finished a surf session. He picked up his ukulele. His left hand stopped working.
That was eight years ago. The doctors said he had six months.

Les Whitney joins The Bridges Between Us this week for one of the most extraordinary conversations we've ever had on this podcast. Les is a CEO mentor, author of Cancer's Gifts, and a stage four lung cancer survivor - eight years in and counting.

He doesn't use hope as a strategy. He doesn't fear dying. He counts perfect moments three to five times a day: some monumental, some as small as watching a child laugh in a park.
He also has 1,200+ CaringBridge followers. And one of them, a stranger he never would have reached without the platform, connected him to a newly approved cancer treatment when his lungs were filled with cancer and every other option had stopped working.

"I couldn't have gotten that without my CaringBridge connection," he says. "It built my community."

In this episode, Les talks about acceptance (what freed him from worry), scanxiety (the thing he doesn't have), and what he calls perfect moments (what got him through). He talks about his wife, recently diagnosed with lung cancer herself, and why watching her receive that news was harder than receiving his own. He talks about a best man speech he's recording in advance, just in case he can't be there to give it in February.

And he shares the one thing he'd tell anyone who needs to hear it:
"If you're depressed, you're too focused on the past. If you're anxious, you're too focused on the future. Live today."

Listen now: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1444930/episodes/19890789
Cancer's Gifts by Les Whitney — linked in the episode.

09/30/2026

Every CaringBridge page is free. Not free for a limited time, not free with a catch. Free because that's the whole point.

When a family is in the middle of a health journey, the last thing they need is one more expense or one more decision. CaringBridge exists so they can spend their energy on what matters: staying connected to the people who love them.

That's only possible because of donors. People who believe a family shouldn't have to choose between affording support and having it.

If you or someone you know is navigating a health journey, a CaringBridge page is ready whenever you need it.

👉 Start a CaringBridge: https://www.caringbridge.org/profile/register?from=1

09/28/2026

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲. 𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐀 𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬. 𝐍𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 💙
Start a free CaringBridge site in minutes. Share updates with everyone at once, skip the endless texts and calls, and let your people surround you with support when you need it most.

CaringBridge has stood beside family caregivers for nearly 30 years. You shouldn't have to explain it thirty times to have someone standing beside you.

👉 Start your free site today: https://ow.ly/nUpE50ZSnIQ

Help ensure no one goes through a health journey alone.

09/24/2026

When Francis Roy was born, complications during delivery left him critically ill and in the NICU. His parents, Kara and John, started a CaringBridge page to keep friends and family members updated and ask for prayers.

For 57 days, they shared updates as Francis received care. The week before Easter, they prepared to say goodbye. On Easter morning, they received an unexpected call from his doctor.

“Right after Mass, we got a call from his doctor saying he was a completely different baby. She’d never seen anything like it in her life,” Kara shared. “It was our Easter miracle.”

Today, Francis is home with his family, reaching milestones and continuing to make progress.

Read their story:https://www.caringbridge.org/resources/an-easter-miracle-for-francis-roy 💛

09/24/2026

A family, a health journey, and the community that showed up. Hear more from Travis and Jessica on The Bridges Between Us.

🎧 Listen here: https://www.caringbridge.org/podcast

09/23/2026

The support didn’t come from just one place. It came from a whole community. Hear Travis and Jessica share Zoe’s story on The Bridges Between Us.

🎧 Listen here: https://www.caringbridge.org/podcast