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 8, 2021

Monday, February 8, 2021

Monday, February 8, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2009. That day we were in the child life playroom of the hospital. A favorite place for Mattie to hang out. It beat being stuck in the hospital room. Regardless of where we were in the hospital, Mattie's preferred choice of clothing was pajamas. That day, Mattie decided to assemble a volcano kit! I took this photo minutes before it erupted. 


Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 27,074,482
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 464,747


Today was a very frustrating day. I was given a 500 page document to review this week for a meeting and it literally took me the whole day to comb through it. Mind you, I am not even half way done. So somehow this clouded my whole day, and I had no other time to focus on anything else. Which makes me feel very unproductive. 

Before I sign off, I wanted to share an article that came into my inbox today. It is entitled, Sickle cell target could treat COVIDScientists are using immune cell proteins as an anti-inflammatory treatment to reduce blood clotting in people with sickle cell disease. But this treatment could potentially also help with similar inflammatory responses that occur with COVID-19. This is because COVID-19, like sickle cell disease, triggers dangerous inflammation and thrombosis (blood clotting), which can lead to the increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary embolism (blood clotting in the lungs). It is interesting how our white blood cells can both trigger a full blown immune response to a foreign invader, or can potentially calm inflammation. The trick it getting the right response at the correct time. 

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