August 10th is Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queen.
If you buy a blizzard treat, you'll be helping out someone like Sarnia's Maia Godin who has needed the services at London Children's Hospital her whole life.
Godin, now 19, was born two months early with two holes in her heart.
"When I was about seven months old, at Children's Hospital, they found that I had a congenital heart defect," said Godin. "I was soon after put through open heart surgery at just seven months old. I had a hole between the two ventricles of my heart and I also had muscle bundle growth on top of my heart. The hole was patched up and the muscle bundles were removed thanks to the Children's Hospital. They were the ones that got my diagnosis. Without them, I don't know where I would be."
Godin said she's had regular checkups through an ECG machine, and has had heart echoes done.
"They save lives there and the staff are amazing," she said. "Every time I've ever had anxiety or stress about my own health problems, they're always so reassuring, patient and kind. They're just absolutely wonderful people."
She said even as an adult, the Children's Hospital has helped her immensely.
"I actually had a recent heart problem that had occurred where I was having premature heart beats," she said. "I needed to be seen by an adult cardiologist because, obviously, I'm not a child anymore. Children's Hospital was so fast in getting me a cardiologist. About a month after the problem arose, they instantly had me there and seeing a cardiologist at Victoria Hospital. I cannot thank them enough for that."
Godin was asked what advice she would have for someone going through a similar journey.
"I would tell them to stay positive," she said. "It can be really hard when you're sick and things are out of your control. It's very scary, and it's even scarier when maybe doctors tell you that they don't know what's going on and you're kind of going through that. I would say to stay positive and know that you're in good hands, for sure."
Today, Godin goes in for yearly checkups.
She will be attending Western University this fall, studying biological archeology.