Sydney Rader, Volunteer

Volunteer Appreciation Week 2018: Day 5

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, …

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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 …