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

February 17, 2019

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. Mattie was in the clinic and truly wanted a hot pretzel! Now when you are in the hospital, fulfilling such a request is close to impossible. But thanks to friends and our network, no demand seemed too challenging or difficult to meet. 


Quote of the day: Every day is a battle. He has great difficulty getting past these migraine headaches and he takes a cocktail of medications to get through it.Keith Sullivan


We each have an animal in our home who is attached to us. For Peter it is Indie the cat!
For me it is Sunny. Today I woke up with a wild migraine. It was so bad and debilitating, that within an hour of waking up, I had to return to bed. I spent the majority of the day there. If it weren't for all my migraine rescue medications and medications for nausea, today would have been even worse than it was. 

In any case, Peter escorted all the animals out of the room so I could rest. However, Sunny did not like that and instead found a way to open the door and then jumped on the bed. Apparently he was worried about me. He spent several hours with me while I was resting. He is a true pal!

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