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BEN  OBADIA







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Ben Obadia was an exceptional person. Always positive, happy, and giving of himself. Though Ben had to endure two different types of cancer, relapses, chemo and radiation since the age of three, he always went out of his way to make everyone happy. There was constant turmoil inside him but he just wanted a normal life with his friends and family.
Between the age of nine and sixteen, he was cancer-free and enjoyed a normal life, until, in July of 2015, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer. Ben was constantly courageous and always looked on the bright side of everything. Unfortunately, Ben left us July 8, 2016, at the age of seventeen.
Ben was talented in playing sports, the piano, the trumpet, making movies, writing scripts and writing his book, 3 Realms, now published.
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NEW section:   "Friends" page - photos of Ben's friends, parties, school, and just hangin' around...

JULY 2023
Seven years ago today
JANUARY 2023
6 and 1/2 later

JANUARY 2021
Time keeps on ticking...
MAY 2021
Happy Birthday Ben - 22 years old

DECEMBER 2020
HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2020
JUNE 2020
4 years ago today
MAY 2020
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY BEN!!❤️

JANUARY 2020

Finding my way without Ben...
NOVEMBER 2019
Nov. 10th - He Reached
OCTOBER 2019
Oct. 13th - Every little treasure...
SEPTEMBER 2019
September 21 - Ben's story in the UK
JULY 2019
July 8 - Three years after ...
Happy Canada Day 2019 !!!
JUNE 2019
June 27, 2019 Great job, Daria!!
Le prix Ben Obadia Award 2019 ... Félicitation, Toria!!!
MAY 2019
Happy 20th birthday, Ben!!
APRIL 2019
Ben a while ...
JANUARY 2019
​Jan. 15th - Same age...
DECEMBER 2018
Dec, 31st - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

NOVEMBER 2018

Nov. 4th - Autumn ...

SEPTEMBER 2018

Sept. 15th - Terry Fox Run 2018
JULY 2018
July 8th - It's been 2 years since you left ...
MAY 2018
May 22nd - Ben's bench (part 2)
May 20th - Happy 19th Birthday, Ben!
May 9th - Bench (part 1)
MARCH 2018
March 18th - Looking for the light ...
FEBRUARY 2018
Feb. 15th - Courage ...
JANUARY 2018
Jan. 28th - Remembering Our Children 2
Jan. 8th  - No way it's been one and a half years...
Jan. 2nd - Bonne année 2018

DECEMBER 2017

Dec. 8th - The darker side: A visual journey

NOVEMBER 2017

Nov. 2nd - A new life slowly creeps in...

OCTOBER 2017

Oct. 18th - Rest in Peace, Gord Downie
Oct. 1st - Metamorphosis

SEPTEMBER 2017

​Sept. 8th - 14 months...

AUGUST 2017

August 27th - Where did summer go? ...

JULY 2017

July 23rd - Operations, treatment, why? ...
July 8th - Ben left us one year ago today ...

JUNE 2017

June 23rd - Ben's second trilogy! - Grad - Yearbook
June 4th - Prix Ben Obadia ...

MAY 2017

May 29th - One year ago & now... the book!

May 20th - Happy Birthday, Ben (18th)

May 15th - Ben's book is out on the FriesenPress bookstore!

APRIL 2017

April 21st - Where we are

MARCH 2017

March 20th - Thoughts on grief and losing Ben...
March 3rd - There is light...right? At the end of this tunnel?

FEBRUARY 2017

Feb. 8th - 7 months...

JANUARY 2017

Jan. 28th - Remembering our Children
Jan. 8th - 6 months ...
Jan. 2nd - Happy 2017 ...

DECEMBER 2016

Dec. 23rd - Happy Christmas - Joyeux Noël !!

Dec. 18th - Made a little video for Steph ...

Dec. 8th - 5 months ...

NEWS: I've added some information about Ben's book on his "3 REALMS" page ... please click above ...

NOVEMBER 2016

Happy 15th Birthday Steph!

Nov. 23rd - Not another sad post ...
Nov. 8th - 4 months today ...

OCTOBER 2016

Happy Halloween! + "3 Realms" update ...

Oct. 24th Stone marker placed today...
Oct. 16th Continuing to honour Ben + 3 Realms ...

SEPTEMBER 2016

Sept. 25, 2016 Trying to move forward ...

First tough milestone...


AUGUST 2016
Where are You? ... Where are we?

Found this on Ben's phone...​

News article on Ben and GBM

August 8th - Missing and mourning Ben


JULY 2015

July 27th - Still painful and difficult ...

July 20th - One year ago today ...

July 15th - Celebration of Ben's Life ...

July 12th - Ben's Memorial (final details) ...

Preliminary details for Ben's memorial ...

Empty bed ... empty heart ...

LIFE ... too important for Ben ...


JUNE 2016

Back at Canuck Place hospice...last few days...

Home for a day...or two...

A couple of setbacks...

June 10th One week at the hospice...

June 3rd Going to the hospice today


MAY 2016

May 29th In the hospital ...

May 25th NOT what we had hoped and prayed for ...

May 17th MRI results and future plans ...


APRIL 2016

April 30th Step back & step forward...

April 24th Daily headaches...

April 14th Weaning off the Dex...


MARCH 2016

March 10th  O M G!!

March 8th now a PET scan...

March 5th  Seizure?? Progression!


FEBRUARY 2016

MRI results, POG and possibilities ...

Counts back down + MRI Thursday


JANUARY 2016

Jan. 24th DisneyWorld and back to reality

Jan. 15th Wizardly ways!

Jan. 9th and we're off!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!!


DECEMBER 2015

Dec. 20th Numbers critical

Dec. 13th  What's "up" with these platelets?

Dec. 7th Platelet transfusion...


NOVEMBER 2015

Nov. 29th Counts going down...

Nov. 20th - skin biopsy & MRI results...

This week ...

Nov. 7th - Start of maintenance chemo...


OCTOBER 2015

Oct. 28th - Weekend trip, start of chemo again & MRI date ...

Oct. 12th - West and wewaxation...


SEPTEMBER 2015

Sept. 29th Pantamidine complete

Sept. 25th - Radiation complete! Chemo on hold

Sept. 15th - New blood counts

Sept. 12th - First week of school ...

Back to school but not as usual...

Sept. 3rd - Side effects


AUGUST 2015

Aug. 30 - stormy weekend - busy week (radiation #15+)

Aug. 23 - Radiation/chemo - week 3

Blood work, doctors and radiation

Aug. 16th - 1st weekend

EEG

Radiation - session 1

mini update (Aug. 10th)

August 10th - Resting before daily radiation

August 7th - Update on Ben ...

Aug. 5th - Call for a meeting with the doctor Wed.


JULY 2015

July 31st  -  Got a call this morning ...

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