Our families honored at the 2025 6H En Cœur

Quebec

Éléonore is our most beautiful storm. After her first emergency hospitalization at 7 months and 3 years of cardiology-neurology-pneumology-gastroenterology-nutrition tests, genetic research and various hospitalizations, Éléonore was finally diagnosed with “sinus disease”. A heart that beats too slowly, irregularly and stops too many times for us to sleep soundly. 585 times in 24 hours, to be precise. So it was as a matter of urgency, on the eve of her tiny 4th birthday, that her doctor gave the go-ahead for her first pacemaker. The first in a long line. A condition she'll have to live with for the rest of her life, and one we'll have to turn into strength and pride. 
But we're confident, because if there's one thing Eléonore has taught us over the last few years, it's resilience. Her character and her smile are the bright spots we need in the stormier corners of our lives. Éléonore is our most beautiful storm, the one we'll weather hand in hand, never letting go. 

Our special thanks 

None of this would be possible without the hospital staff, the dedicated doctors, the caring surgeons and the conscientious nurses. 

Thank you to the Foundation for making us feel less alone. Their support is the hand on our back that we sometimes don't know we need, and that does so much good.

“Thanks to Julianne for all the blue possicles”. That's the phrase Eléonore wanted to include in this humble article. 

Frédérique Hamel

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