“I had a great pregnancy up until that point, but I knew those cramps were different,” Samantha remembers. “I was in labour. Six weeks early."

It happened on a November day. Anthony had just come back from a concert when he started feeling ill. At first, he felt extremely sick to his stomach and then he started noticing that something was wrong with his eyes.

When Kevin’s dog began spending more and more time with him, he started wondering if his cancer might be back. “I am friends with Temple Grandin, an animal behaviourist, and have learned a lot from her over the years,” Kevin explains. “I knew something wasn’t right.”