Tonight, Matson Money donated $100,000 to The Dragonfly Foundation!!!! Incredible. Awesome. Just like their symposium!! So grateful for what this can do for us!!!
Bleed for a Cause: Dragonflies for Dragonfly
One of our Dragonfly families donated blood today… Their ENTIRE family!!!!! Bleed for a Cause is a program by Hoxworth Blood Center Program designed to encourage nonprofits to recruit blood donors during the month of July. Almost all of our Dragonflies require blood transfusions at some point during treatment. Please donate blood. Today and tomorrow.
“… sometimes the only light in a cold dark place…”
From one of our long-time volunteers, Anne Petersen: “We recently got back from a family trip to Nashville. On the way we stopped at Mammoth Cave in KY and did a long and strenuous lantern lit cave tour. About half way through our guide had us turn off the lanterns to get an idea of how incredibly DARK (and a …
“The ‘club’ you never want to join, but now never want to leave.”
From a Dragonfly Mom: “I was talking about Dragonfly today and someone told me how lucky we were to be part of Dragonfly and how they wish they could join. I had to explain that in order to be a Dragonfly, your kid had to have cancer so it would be lucky to NOT be eligible for Dragonfly. However, if …
“I definitely see what we are doing all this for. “
A note from a Dragonfly volunteer who greeted Kings Island visitors for us on Saturday (still have openings in August!): “I had a wonderful time volunteering today for KI Kicks Cancer! The staff was very welcoming and helpful with getting us set up, and guiding us on what to do. I was able to make genuine connections with a lot …
“Thank you for letting him be a Dragonfly instead of…”
From a Dragonfly Mom (see picture): “Thank you for letting him be a Dragonfly instead of just a child with cancer and alone.” This post is special to us because of her quote, but also because this Dragonfly mom’s SISTER-IN-LAW knows that her nephew identifies himself as “a Dragonfly.” She must believe very strongly that we have made a difference …
Kings Island Kicks Cancer
A big THANK YOU to Kings Island and all their staff for a fantastic first day of the Kings Island Kicks Cancer event! If you are in the area please come say hello, buy a soccer ball, and maybe win the Honda Fit! Kicks Cancer is a new park initiative at Kings Island that is focused on raising awareness and …
More paperwork…
Oh, the life of a Dragonfly mom: “My daughter starts kindergarten and they now know about mychart at her school. I gave them stacks of paper! Funny how schools give one tiny line for hospitalizations. Seriously, here’s 4 pages of admissions.”
We are always with them…
From a Dragonfly Mom: “On vacation in Illinois we went to Japanese garden and walking through the garden looking at the small waterfall guess what lands in front of us on a beautiful tree branch. A small beautiful dark purple dragonfly. Of course I thought if all of you. Thank you for looking out for us and our dragonfly where …
Dragonflies landed on them…
We love how our logo has become a real symbol of comfort, especially in the darkest times. The photographs are screenshots of posts made by two of our families who lost their Dragonflies. Our youngest daughter A had HEHE and passed away in January. We were recently in Oklahoma and had another service for family who could not attend the …