Tonight's picture was taken on February 18, 2009. The lady next to Mattie is Katie, one of Mattie's HEM/ONC nurses. Mattie loved playing with Katie's grey sweater. Which she wore in the hospital when she was cold. The beauty of this sweater is it had a belt. Mattie loved to use his feet and tug on the belt and pull it through the loops to remove it from Katie's sweater. It was a running gaming they had with each other. In this particular case, Katie was wearing a yellow gown because Mattie probably had a threat of an infection. Mattie had many of these near misses in the hospital, but usually after extensive testing of his blood, it was negative.... meaning he did not have a bacterial infection.
Quote of the day: Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated. ~ Allphonse de Lamartine
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Karen Allyn. Karen is broadcast journalist, who was intrigued by our article in the Washington Post. So she asked whether Peter and I would do a guest spot on her internet based talk show. I had to get up to speed about what an internet show was even about, because I understand TV and radio, but am not familiar with the internet version.
So this evening, we will be interviewed at 8:30pm in Rockville, MD. We will be talking about Mattie, our experiences with childhood cancer and why we started a Foundation. Hopefully I will have more insights to report tomorrow night.
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