Ambulance gets stuck in snow in North Delta

By Dan Ferguson - Surrey North Delta Leader
Published: December 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Updated: December 29, 2008 4:09 PM

When an ambulance got stuck in the snow trying to run 25-year-old Shannon Stewart to hospital, residents of Bremridge Drive in North Delta came running with shovels.

Stewart has Wegener's granulomatosis, a blood-based chronic condition that attacks almost every organ in the body.

It was Sunday night, around 7 p.m. and her temperature had spiked and she was coughing up blood.

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My notes: This is a very heart-warming story about disease and the kindness of a community. Another note: Wegener's Granulomatosis is not a blood-based chronic condition. It is a blood vessel chronic condition (the blood vessel walls inflame). It is also an auto-immune and connective disease.