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Janelle Stanley

Janelle Stanley

Interior architect and designer; founder of STUDIO309 DESIGN; spoke on August After Dark podcast about her son Finley's leukemia and recovery, and her work designing Ronald McDonald House BC Yukon.

May 29, 2026

9:05
How long did it take you to get to that threshold to, um, to actually start thinking about, like, where we're staying, what, what's next? Like, you know, the, a conversation with obviously the doctors as to like what that next step is and, you know, walk me through that process.
9:23
What is so beautiful about BC Children's Hospital is that, you know, at 2:00 a.m., they've assigned a team, so you have your medical team that is already, um, going through the blood work, getting all the tests ordered, getting everything he needs so that when he comes through that door, they know everything about his blood.
9:46
It's all ready to go.
9:48
He has his genetic markers.
9:49
Once you have those, it's figuring out what your treatment path is going to be.
9:55
Meanwhile, they also have, um, a team that's setting you up with like, "Here's where you're gonna stay.
10:03
Here's what you need to do," so that, you know, you have to fill out these forms and all of this information so that you're in-- The government's funding this, and they're doing that, and we need to get, apply for this and apply for that.

32 MINS LATER

41:56
Why does he s- why does he say that?

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