A rare disease and an overloaded health-care system — two things Ashley Nightingale has been forced to navigate over the past six months.
Nightingale, 36, moved home to Nova Scotia in September, less than a month after giving birth to her second child. She’d been living in Mississauga, Ont., for several years, but wanted to spend her maternity leave close to family, and close to the ocean.
She and her husband, Jared, bought a house in Hubbards, on the province’s South Shore, with a view of the water and, after some renovations, moved with their two-year-old son and infant daughter into their
