Making Headway Foundation Releases Special Family Newsletter

Making Headway Foundation's Special Edition Winter Newsletter is here! Most of this issue is written by families who tell their stories about pediatric brain tumors and how Making Headway impacted their lives. Families from all backgrounds, with children of all ages, courageously face childhood cancer and reflect on the journey and how Making Headway has helped. Plus updates on medical research grants, college scholarships, events, and more. Just read a few articles and you'll understand. Making Headway is a Westchester-based 501c3 nonprofit organization.

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Care, Comfort, & a Cure.

Here is just one amazing story...

A LIFEBOAT OFF THE ISLAND
"There are images you don’t forget when your child is diagnosed with a brain tumor. The look on your wife’s face as a doctor explains to her that, no, your son is not OK and won’t be going home from the hospital. The supernatural glow the tumor has when you look at that first image of his brain. The way a doctor idly twists a phone cord during a family meeting, sighs in a way that is so far from hopeful it doesn’t even feel in the same state as despair, and says, “So. Second opinions…”

"Making Headway was a lifeboat off our lonely island of hopelessness. Our lives were changed irreversibly when Owen was diagnosed. But so, too, were they when NYU Neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Wisoff said he thought he could remove the tumor. And when the incredibly kind staff at Hassenfeld and Making Headway walked us through the resources at our disposal post-surgery. And when “Snowen” met Looney Lenny for the first time after surgery. And when we went to our first Family Fun Day on Father’s Day, 2009. And when we snapped a picture of Owen with Dr. Wisoff as he celebrated 10 years cancer-free."

"We’re honored to be a part of the Making Headway community—a family of fighters, survivors, and angels. I’m not sure we would have made it off the island if not for them. “Thank you” seems inadequate to the task of expressing our gratitude."

Read more amazing stories in Making Headway's special winter newsletter at Visit https://makingheadway.org/winter/.

MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION
For the past 20 years, the Making Headway Foundation has been supporting families of children diagnosed with brain or spinal cord tumors. During this time, we have helped thousands of families through unimaginably difficult times, providing a wide range of holistic programs and services. Visit www.makingheadway.org or call 914-238-8384 to donate or for more information.