In Christmas 1997 Seinfeld debuted the new holiday Festivus in the episode The Strike.  We adopted the holiday: Gabriel was spending his first Christmas in the Intensive Care Unit of BC’s Children’s Hospital and there was the airing of grievances, there were feats of strength–those were Gabriel’s.

Today I was loading some clippings on to the site and ran across this issue of the BCCH Foundation magazine Speaking of Children. Gabriel’s story was featured in the Fall 2006 issue (scroll to the bottom.) That’s my photo, my monkey on the cover.  Check it out: