Dragonfly Stories

News, Updates, & Tales of Courage
Marni (Volunteer) and Jordan (Supporter)

A Day Filled with Trucks, Puppies, and Bracelets

From our Intern, Marni Grow: The Quaker Steak & Lube Restaurant in Milford is known for their legendary chicken wings, ...
A Thank You Note

Love getting these….

It's the little things, sometimes even those that come in small envelopes (mailed with only 2 stamps, as opposed to ...

Waiting…

A few hours after I left the house to go to a meeting, my daughter messaged me a picture and ...

Take Me Out To The Ball Game…

There is no such thing as a bad day at the Great American Ball Park, especially not when it is ...

“Best Time Ever!”

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to send our families to events and make them smile!  ...
The Landing

Review of The Landing

From a Dragonfly Mom: "The Landing Rocks. Huge thank you to the Dragonfly Foundation for having such an amazing place ...
Jonah

Jonah shares his journey through poetry

Jonah created this personal narrative poem about his cancer experience. His mom sent this to "everyone who touched Jonah in ...
The Landing's Interior Lobby

After a visit to The Landing, our patient/family space, a Dragonfly Mom said:

From a Dragonfly Mom: "Once again the dragonfly delivered a day of fun, excitement, and goodies!!! Our kids had a ...
Love

Love getting these notes!

From Dragonfly Families: "The kids are having the time of their life! S has a non-stop smile!" "The amazing opportunities ...
Dragonfly Cartoon

Helping me see the light

From a Dragonfly: "I talked with an old school friend today and she asked me questions about what it was ...
Dragonfly Photo

No… not another one…

2,548 days... We lost one today that was 2,548 days old... 6 years, 11 months, and 22 days old... Him, ...

A Thank You Note

A note from a Dragonfly Mom: "My daughter, A, just started receiving treatment at Cincinnati Children's for liver cancer. I ...

Cancer, not Kryptonite, is his weakness….

From a Dragonfly Mom: "The anger and sadness wells up in me when my J is playing superman, but says ...

Love our bumper stickers!

From a Dragonfly mom: "(While) Cashing out at Krogers a lady approached me and asked me if that was my ...
PBJ Dragonfly

Our families start seeing Dragonflies everywhere…

From a Dragonfly Mom: "After B finished his peanut butter and jelly sandwich tonight he said "Look mom--it's a dragonfly!" ...

Birthday gift donations

From a dragonfly mom.... 'I'm so proud of E. who asked all of her friends to donate gift cards to ...

“My mom don’t need to be worried…”

One of our Dragonfly mom's posted this on our private Facebook page for patients/families: "Hello, Good morning, I did receive ...
Infant Dragonfly

And they haven’t even gotten to know us yet…

We registered a really little Dragonfly today. Her mommy told us that her baby's "favorite thing"was the Dragonfly bracelet that ...
Chemotherapy

“As a mother of a young cancer patient, I cannot begin to explain the horror and feelings of helplessness…”

From a Dragonfly mom: “As a mother of a young cancer patient, I cannot begin to explain the horror and ...

Voicemail from a Dragonfly Mom

"Hi Ria, I wanted to tell you about something that happened to me today. I was wearing my Dragonfly sweatshirt ...