Fatherhood: An Ever-Changing Experience
When I became a father 10 years ago, I was ready. I had gotten a puppy a year prior - it didn’t die the first year, it was potty-trained and ...
My Two Lives
I feel like I have lived two lives: my pre-cancer life and my life as a survivor. Before my diagnosis, cancer was an ambiguous word that invoke...
Caring for Connor
Advocating for your child is exhausting. I am not talking about meeting with a teacher about make-up assignments, or an email sent to the bas...
Her Greatest Triumph
On a snow-thawing day in Minnesota, osteosarcoma survivor Anna (35) wrote a beaming message on her Facebook page: “Mila Alice was born March 2,...
A Forgotten Thank You
Caregivers are present at the beginning, middle and end of cancer. Caregivers are the people who go to the first doctor appointment for “ju...
New Clinical Trial Aims to Tackle Deadliest of Brain Tumors
‘Midline malignant glioma’ is a mouthful – and it’s also one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer. A four year old child diagnose...
Father of a Cancer Superhero
April 30, 2017 will, for my wife and I, be a date that we will always know where we were, what we did, every moment of the entire day. It was a...
Photos During Chemo – A Survivor’s Perspective
When I was 17 years old, I was a three-sport varsity athlete, lifeguard and fiercely independent oldest child. I spent most summer nights at bo...
First, Survivor – Now, Volunteer
Dustin Hron is a Care Partners volunteer in the bone marrow transplant unit at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. A neu...
Remembering Callie
It is with great sadness that we share our dear friend, Callie, passed away on Sat., April 7, 2018 after a two-year battle with pelvic rhabdomy...
Riding to Give Back
In his three years of participating in Great Cycle Challenge USA (GCC), Jeff Freitag has ridden 970 miles — that’s more than three times ac...
A Family Legacy to Fight Brain Cancer
Six years apart, a mother and daughter both passed away from brain cancer. Today, friends and family are honoring their memories by continuing ...
Bravery – MacKale’s Surgery
Kids are fearless, reckless and infinitely braver than most adults. I think that God makes them that way to remind us that he’s in charge, wo...
Do You Want A Warm Blanket?
The summer months were in full swing in August but my 16-year-old body was more like an 80-year-old woman’s in a nursing home. Only a few sho...
Nine Years Later
The passing of time is a gift. I have found time cannot be grasped nor exchanged like currency but nine years after my cancer treatments conc...
Creating a Legacy of Hope
Nearly 40 years ago, 13-year-old Katie Hageboeck was nearing the end of her battle with leukemia. Before she died, Katie asked that her savings...
37th Annual Dawn of a Dream
Guests listened in awe at this year’s Dawn of a Dream gala as they heard from the Dykes family, who shared Connor’s battle with brain cance...