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 23, 2021

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 -- Mattie died 599 weeks ago today. 

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2005. That weekend we took Mattie to Bunnyland at Butler's Orchard. It was the perfect outdoor family event each spring. As they had all sorts of fun activities, not to mention a chance to ride in a wagon full of hay. I remember these moments so well, as we took Mattie to the Orchard during pumpkin and Easter egg seasons. I am so glad we did all these things with Mattie, because if I did not they would have been lost opportunities. 





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

  • Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 29,918,936
  • Number of people who died from the virus: 543,741

I feel like I am out of commission. I have had an intense migraine for weeks and now I have cycled back to having a cluster headache. Lay people call this kind of headache a "suicide headache." I can see why, as the pain could make you go insane! 

The cluster headache occurs in cyclical patterns or cluster periods, and are considered one of the most painful types of headache. A cluster headache commonly awakens you in the middle of the night with intense pain in or around one eye on one side of your head. I haven't been able to sleep well, my eyes are hard to keep open, they are bloodshot, and let's not talk about the head pain. For me, my headaches are directly linked to work and stress. Staring at a computer intensely for the last month on top of other stressors I am balancing, have caused havoc for me. 

Interested in learning more about cluster headaches, go to:

https://americanmigrainefoundation.org/resource-library/cluster-headache-2/

1 comment:

Cheryl said...

I am so sorry about your headaches. I'm praying for you tonight.