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 17, 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2003. Mattie was nine months old and riding outside in our commons space with "tot wheels." Tot wheels was my life saver because Mattie wanted to move around and have the freedom to choose what and where he was going. As Mattie would steer this walker all over the place, he also would be pressing the horn and other buttons making a racket wherever he went. Noise never bothered me, as long as Mattie was happy and content.


Quote of the day: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver


Despite admiring George Washington Carver's quote, one thing is glaringly wrong with it.... he assumed that all people age. However, in our case, we have learned that getting and growing old is not something guaranteed to all of us. Anyone who has lost a child, understands this reality all too well. So how far one goes in life may not always depend on these most valiant qualities Carver talks about.

Peter and I were super busy today getting symposium folders put together, attendee name tags printed and in order, and the list goes on. This evening I am working with our symposium scientific chair to upload all the PowerPoint presentations onto my computer for Tuesday. Amazing how she can be in Philadelphia and I am in Washington, DC and we are working on this in tandem. As I look over the presentation slides the researchers are sharing with me, all I can say is it is amazing to see all this psychological content in one place and it is very exciting to imagine it being delivered to an audience next week.

I am signing off for the evening, as we have another full day of work ahead of us tomorrow. But we are definitely on track now, despite some set backs here and there.

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