Tonight's picture features a poster that will be on display at Sunday's Mattie Miracle Walk. We are featuring the faces of 66 children who lost their battle to cancer. We call them our Forever Heroes. We did a campaign request on Facebook a few weeks ago and the response was amazing. Which is sad, but what I had suspected. When you lose a child to cancer, you relish any opportunity to display photos and memories. It is quite possible that our attendees will find these posters sad, but the posters are the reality of childhood cancer. Five children die each day in the US from this disease and with that come psychosocial issues that impact and affect the families forever. Our Faces of Hope posters (which reflect on cancer survivorship) along with our Forever Heroes posters provide a visual reminder that psychosocial issues do not end when the treatment does. Children are faced with late effects (e.g., secondary cancers, heart disease, high blood pressure, heart disease, hearing loss, eating disorders, substance abuse, depression and anxiety) and bereaved families contend with a lifetime of grief. Which is why Mattie Miracle is committed to psychosocial issues across the entire cancer journey not just during diagnosis and treatment.
Quote of the day: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walk Facts....................................
- We are achieved 90% of our fundraising goal as of today: $72,311
- We have 279 participants pre-registered
- The on-line raffle has raised $2,365
- Our Walk teams have raised in total: $30,000
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