Family Stories
A Family’s Journey with Cystic Fibrosis
A child’s illness will often mean a journey for the entire family. Years of treatment, setbacks and triumphs will mark this journey. And sometimes, the journey is also marked by…
Jordan’s Smile Lights Up the House!
Five year-old Jordan Greiner and her mom Lisa have called the Ronald McDonald House home for nearly a year since Jordan’s diagnosis with leukemia. After months of strange bruising and…
Not your average teenager…
Sixteen is an exciting age. Younger teens look forward to this milestone in eager anticipation, the age when they can finally get a driver’s license, moving one step closer towards…
A Mother’s love…
“From the day he was born till diagnosis, I always knew there was something wrong with Zain,” remarks his mother, Amy. “Within those years that we had no answer, there…
The Partin Family’s Story
Jimmy and Katherine Partin, a Marine Corps family stationed in Jacksonville, NC, never expected to spend weeks living at the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill, but they received devastating…
The House that Love Built
Melissa Markham never imagined that the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill would impact her life so much. But now, she says that “RMH is alive with hope, compassion, and…
A Constant in an Uncertain World
Dylan Zuege was only three years old when his seizures started. His parents, Karen and Jeff, were shocked by the severity of their son’s epilepsy. “He was having hundreds of…
Brothers Fight Cancer Together
My name is Kathleen Henry and my husband Robert is the battalion S3 operations NCO for a Military Police Battalion. We have been stationed at Ft. Bragg since 2002. In…
Long-Time Friends of the House Stop by for a Visit
Kate Kane and her husband first stayed at the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill in 2005 when their daughter Maura needed heart surgery, but they soon became regular guests.…
A Tiny Heart with Just As Much Love to Give
This is my family at our home-away-from-home, the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill. There’s my husband John, our two sons Gabriel and Matthew, our daughter Eliana (we call her…