Anne wrote: “I’M SO STINKIN PROUD OF THESE KIDS!!! Anne Petersen is a Dragonfly Volunteer and one of the leaders of Lakota West’s Beta Club. They recently volunteered at our facility and held a coin drive for us. Anne wrote this letter to the family of the participants and share the contents with us. Background on the Beta Club Fundraiser: …
Exerpt from a FB post from a Dragonfly Sister: “I love The Dragonfly Foundation because they gave my family hope and happiness. I new (sic) she was in awesome hands… Thanks for making our family so hapy (sic) and loving and joyful.”
It’s never over. Once you or a loved one receives the diagnosis of “cancer,” your world shifts and is never the same again. Many of our Dragonflies, parents, patients, spouses (remember we go to age 30), siblings and offspring (some of our patients have kids) we support are affected by during- and post-traumatic stress (PTS). Even the strongest can be …
Summary: A thank you note to CBTS/Dragonfly/Reds for the day at the Great American Ball Park (The author of the note, a Dragonfly mom, also describes what it is like to have a child with cancer.) Family forgoes Christmas gifts and instead makes donation to The Dragonfly Foundation A patient says that “You Are The Best Medicine” It’s amazing what …
One of our dragonfly families created these as a family project and they are currently at Uptown Salon in Oxford. Beautiful!!
From a Dragonfly mom: “(Dragonfly)…..you know you’ve done a good job … when they say that they are glad they had brain surgery because that is how they got to meet you ♥ Thank you for all you do!”
From the uncle of a Dragonfly: “When I saw a dragonfly in the past, it was just a pesky insect I’d see flying around a swimming pool. Now when I see a dragonfly, I feel a tug on my heart. When my sister first signed M up for the Dragonfly Foundation, I never realized what it would do for my …
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From a Dragonfly Mom: “Your blue gift bag is the reason I got to eat some days. Like a godsend, I got your bag a week when things were really tight. Your foundation should of won all the contests, because there is no contest. you guys are there for us in our darkest hour, a beacon of hope when there …
From a 10/14/13 NY Times article and blog post written by Perri Klaas, MD Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/haunted-by-a-childs-illness/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 “A child’s serious illness can cast a very long shadow across a family, often for years after the crisis has passed. A mother sat in our clinic recently, crying because her older child was having trouble in school. She blamed herself. A couple of …
