Mattie Miracle Walk 2023 was a $131,249 success!

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 25, 2019

Monday, March 25, 2019

Monday, March 25, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2004. Mattie was playing on the floor before his second birthday party was about to begin. Mattie found his first year party overwhelming, but by his second birthday he was excited and eager to participate.





Quote of the day: The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain. ~ Aristotle


Aristotle was brilliant! As I have had it with pain. I am happy to say the stent came out today, and the process was not bad at all. It took only minutes and it is truly amazing how such a small and thin tube could cause so much discomfort and pain. 


See the blue tube in this photo, that is an example of the stent that was inside of me. The stent is used to keep the ureter open as it heals. In my case, I had a stone lodged in the ureter and it was causing an adema. In order to keep urine flowing post surgery, the stent is placed in to keep the tube open from the kidney to the bladder. 
I think the x-ray (not of me) shows just how long this tube is! 
What the actual stent looks like!











After the procedure, we went out to lunch. At one of Mattie's favorite restaurants. Which happens to be across the street from the doctor's office. Mattie used to love the train that ran around a track on the ceiling. 

This evening, pain seems to be back, so I called the doctor. As I wanted to make sure this is normal. He believes I am dealing with kidney spasms, which will resolve itself with time. It can't be soon enough. I am truly tired of pain!


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