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...

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...

Bravery – MacKale’s Surgery

Michigan 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 c...

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...

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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...

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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...

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Every Dollar Makes a Difference

Life was going back to “normal” for Katie Jurek and her family until they were suddenly faced with the return of cancer—a circumstance no...

Zach Sobiech

I Went There Once

I went to that place once. For just a moment, I thought about what could have been, and I almost lost every spark of joy I had left. Despair...

Mindy and Connor

Today is What We Have

Connor was only 6 weeks old when he survived an emergency brain surgery.  It was in the hours of that life-changing surgery that I learned to ...

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New clinical trial for osteosarcoma

A lot can happen in five years. Five years ago, Zach Sobiech was battling osteosarcoma and watching his hit song “Clouds” climb to the top ...

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