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

August 2, 2018

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2008. It was Mattie's first admission to the hospital, in order to start the first round of chemotherapy. I will never forget that first week. Honestly all three of us weren't sure what to expect, how to manage this, and our fears were impossible to quantify! However, it was in the early days of diagnosis that we met Linda, Mattie's child life specialist. Linda quickly became a vital part of our treatment team. As you can see, Linda set up a painting station in the middle of the PICU hallway, right outside Mattie's room. Linda knew exactly how to engage Mattie and in the process created for us moments of peace and happiness in between a lot of horror.


Quote of the day: We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act. ~ Charlotte Lunsford 


Last night three of my friends took me to the Wharf in DC for dinner. The Wharf is a whole new mixed-use development in South West Washington, DC. It is amazing how this development has revitalized the waterfront. It is a far cry from the dilapidated restaurants that used to fill this area. 

We had a lovely waiter last night who walked us through the tapas menu and guided our experience quite well. We dined at Del Mar, which is part of a restaurant group that I like in DC. However, I would say this restaurant has some work to do to match the quality of its sister restaurants. The food was good, but sparse given the exorbitant prices. 
Meanwhile, check out my view today. Someone was NOT happy! As soon as Sunny heard the intense rain and then the thunder, he basically pushed me aside to get under my desk. He spent several hours on there while I was working. 



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