On Wednesday, September 13th Dragonfly families had a unique patient/family event opportunity — thanks to our friends at CBTS and the Cincinnati Reds. Young cancer patients and their families visited Great American Ball Park, played baseball on the field, and visited the batting cages, and had the chance to see what it’s like to be a Reds player. Upon their …
“Thank you Dragonfly Foundation- it is so wonderful what you do for patients and their families like ours!” — A Dragonfly Mom ______ “Thank God for the Dragonfly family who will always listen to anything we all have to share until we get through it.” — A Dragonfly Mom ______ “Still can’t thank The Dragonfly Foundation enough through the years …
An Open Thank You Letter To: Dragonfly co-founders, Ria and Christine, and our friends at The Dragonfly Foundation, This email has been a long time coming. You may need tissues by the time I am finished. I don’t even know where to begin. All I do know is you were the light and continue to be in the darkest time …
“(My daughter) and I just had this conversation in the van. (My daughter): Can I be a Mommy when I grow up? Me: That’s what we are fighting for, baby girl! Normally, when a kid says something like this, a parent can just laugh and roll with it. “Sure, kid, you can be anything you want.” When your 3 year …
STORY: As we have said, we are sending 88 Dragonflies to see #GarthBrooks at our #DragonflySuite at US Bank Arena during his 5 shows… One of those young Dragonflies, who we had arranged to go to the Garth Brooks concert in our suite this past weekend, tripped, fell, and was SEVERELY injured as she left her home to go to …
A Dragonfly Caregiver wrote this about her family’s experience with Dragonfly… in 2014 and today: January 24, 2017: “I wrote this years back when Y was in treatment and I didn’t know what to do or were to turn and I felt so alone even though I had my wonderful husband and mother in law a very few family members …
Post by a Dragonfly Mom who nominated TDF for support: “Our favorite non-profit organization is The Dragonfly Foundation! When our son, one of your patients, was diagnosed with stage 3, intermediate risk neuroblastoma in the fall of 2015, TDF was there for us from the very beginning! During our initial week-long hospital stay, they provided us with a bag of …
Chuck Gibson, [email protected] 2:16 p.m. EST December 28, 2016 http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/loveland/2016/12/28/lms-drama-makes-wonderful-gift-dragonfly/95920416/ The Loveland Middle School drama, directed by Carol Hall, performed “It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play” in early December. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, just five days before Christmas, Hall and the students presented a check for $1,000 to Colleen Berlinger, Dragonfly Foundation community relations director. “It’s …
“It’s scan week and the anxiety is in full on crazy mode. There is a term we (“we” being other parents of kids with cancer) use to describe this feeling- scanxiety. It isn’t so much anxiety about what might happen this week, it is anxiety because of what already happened. We have already heard the words “your child has cancer” …
Following is a post written by a Dragonfly mom who shared information about our upcoming Dragonfly Grand Gala with her friends on Facebook: “This charity organization is AMAZING. They give tickets to families (with a child fighting cancer or “Dragonfly”) for local events. When your child is immunosuppressed they cannot be in large crowds of people. (Even more so in …
