Please join us in thanking Sydney Rader — and our other volunteers — as she/they make what we do possible! We love that they love volunteering for Dragonfly! To read our profile from Day 1, please click here! To read our profile from Day 2, please click here! To read our profile from Day 3, please click here! To read …
Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation Awards Dragonfly $20K Technology Grant
Cancer is made worse when you don’t have access to family, pets, friends, and the world outside the hospital. Technology is an important tool for patients/families to maintain/manage communications, relationships, life circumstances, responsibilities outside of the hospital, education, and employment. The Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation has awarded a $20,801 grant for The Dragonfly Foundation to provide additional laptops, charging stations, …
Volunteer Appreciation Week 2018: Day 1!
Please join us in thanking Anne Petersen — and our other volunteers — as she/they make what we do possible! We love that they love volunteering for Dragonfly! Read why Anne loves volunteering for Dragonfly in the picture below!
Online Searches Before & After Diagnosis
The other day, I was visiting a friend who recently had surgery. The actual diagnosis that resulted in the operation wasn’t 100% percent confirmed. The relevancy for this blog is that she researched her symptoms online to help determine the cause of her issues. This is the part that motivated me to write about this blog post for Dragonfly: She …
Survivorship: Stresses & PTSD
The process of diagnosis and then establishing the best protocol for a pediatric cancer diagnosis is like going to war. Truly. There is so much waiting and anxiety associated with that, as well as managing a scared and sick child, dealing with a job, other kids other obligations and then back to the unknowns associated with cancer. Just writing this …