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Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation Promotional Video

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to us that you take the time to write to us and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful to us and help support us through very challenging times. To you we are forever grateful. As my readers know, I promised to write the blog for a year after Mattie's death, which would mean that I could technically stop writing on September 9, 2010. However, at the moment, I feel like our journey with grief still needs to be processed and fortunately I have a willing support network still committed to reading. Therefore, the blog continues on. If I should find the need to stop writing, I assure you I will give you advanced notice. In the mean time, thank you for reading, thank you for having the courage to share this journey with us, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki and Peter



The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation celebrates its 7th anniversary!

The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation was created in the honor of Mattie.

We are a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. We are dedicated to increasing childhood cancer awareness, education, advocacy, research and psychosocial support services to children, their families and medical personnel. Children and their families will be supported throughout the cancer treatment journey, to ensure access to quality psychosocial and mental health care, and to enable children to cope with cancer so they can lead happy and productive lives. Please visit the website at: www.mattiemiracle.com and take some time to explore the site.

We have only gotten this far because of people like yourself, who have supported us through thick and thin. So thank you for your continued support and caring, and remember:

.... Let's Make the Miracle Happen and Stomp Out Childhood Cancer!

A Remembrance Video of Mattie

March 4, 2015

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2003. Mattie was almost one year old. He wasn't walking yet but he was very on and fully engaged! This to me was a classic Mattie pose! His hands flared out like two radio antennae trying to pick up a signal. Mattie did this early on as a baby and this pattern somewhat stuck throughout his life. He absorbed the world around him and took everything in through observation and touch!


Quote of the day: Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. Ralph Waldo Emerson



In the midst of cold and grey weather days in Washington, DC, I decided to make these three flower arrangements for Tuesday night's Foundation dinner that we held for our volunteers. We displayed them on the table last night and I think they really made a difference. One couldn't help but notice them especially since there is NOTHING green or colorful growing outside now. So I know they caught people's attention. I know I am enjoying these flowers now at home, with their orange theme.

Next week, Peter and I have two conferences on our plate. In the beginning of the week, one conference is in DC (Comprehensive Cancer Care for Children and their Families). Many of the psychosocial researchers who work closely with our Foundation are presenting at this conference and our lead researcher is staying in our home with us for two nights and we are attending the conference together. I have been asked to say a few words at this conference on March 9th at the 1pm time slot:

http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Disease/NCPF/2015-MAR-09.aspx

Then later in the week we are flying to Florida to present our research poster regarding our National psychosocial standards of care project at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network conference. Today I was running around finalizing our poster and I went to the printers to get this enormous thing printed out and laminated. 

http://www.nccn.org/professionals/meetings/annual_conference.aspx

Peter and I have worked on revising the format and layout of the research poster. This is what the poster now looks like! Though you can't tell here it is 52" wide x 42" tall.



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