A Remembrance Video of Mattie

Thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive!

Dear Mattie Blog Readers,

It means a great deal to me that you take the time to write and to share your thoughts, feelings, and reflections on Mattie's battle and death. Your messages are very meaningful and help support me through very challenging times. I am 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 have stopped writing on September 9, 2010. However, like my journey with grief there is so much that 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 me, and most importantly thank you for keeping Mattie's memory alive.


As Mattie would say, Ooga Booga (meaning, I LOVE YOU)! Vicki



March 18, 2026

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. When Mattie was on cancer treatment, he went through different food cravings. Honestly because Mattie was dropping weight dramatically, whatever he wanted to eat, he got. For the most part, chemotherapy made Mattie lose his appetite altogether. But on occasion, he made food requests. It did not matter what hour of the day or night these requests came in.... we made it happen. As you can see, this was Mattie's French fry and chicken finger phase! 




Quote of the day: I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. ~ Mark Twain


Mark Twain's quote makes me laugh! I wish that my worries were just in my head. Unfortunately many of my worries are real and frankly even things I haven't worried about or even thought could be possible have become my reality! I thought I was going to write about some of the emails I received today from psychologists around the world. They wrote to me about the impact of Mattie Miracle on their work. Honestly these emails really touched my heart! Perhaps I can write about this tomorrow. 

Tonight I am STRUNG out! On Sunday, I was alerted to fraud, using my name and opening up accounts. Today, I received a call about this and got to speak to several fraud departments. From there a cascade of other tasks had to be done. I have now learned the steps of what one has to do when such a crisis arises! I am SICK, SICK I tell you of crises! Every day it is something else, and I miss being a family unit that solved problems and issues together. 

As I told my lifetime friend, Karen, tonight I am so anxious, wound up, and upset that I could literally smack someone! 

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