Camper Arrival – Sunday, August 11, 2013
Written by Mindy McManus, Special Love Volunteer This is my 7th year at Camp Fantastic. This afternoon, 106 children with cancer between the ages of 7 and 17 rode […]
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Written by Mindy McManus, Special Love Volunteer This is my 7th year at Camp Fantastic. This afternoon, 106 children with cancer between the ages of 7 and 17 rode […]
There’s a pediatric oncology unit in Brazil that’s trying out a fairly clever idea. They’re using comic books and superheroes to explain chemotherapy to children. Kids are given their drugs in super-hero branded IV containers and given comics and animated cartoons which depict heroes like Batman, Superman, and the Green Lantern getting similar “superformulas” to help them regain their powers.
West Springfield High School student Jordan Trufio’s fight with cancer ended today. Fellow student Sean Ngo contributed these thoughts on his passing.
If I’ve learned one thing from the time I’ve spent at Special Love and Camp Fantastic, it’s that sometimes you just have to know when to get out of the way. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that I’ve let wiser heads (and younger hearts) prevail when it came to posting on Special Love’s blog, That said, it’s now a year and a half later and the stars have aligned to where I feel compelled to finally make an appearance blog-wise. Today is “Giving Tuesday” and I feel the need to give back to an organization that has given me so much.
As we head off to our week-long BRASS Camp and Camp Fantastic, you can join us! By “showing your camp spirit,” you’ll attend camp virtually from the comfort of home […]
One of camp’s most bittersweet moments is the time when we have to say goodbye to a camper who’s passed out of eligability. In order to make room for new campers facing the challenges and hardship of a new diagnosis we must turn away old friends who’ve finished their treatment and gone three years without relapse or recurrance. We hate to see them leave but are glad to know that they can go. Eligable to attend or not, however, they will aways be part of our camp family.
When I think of someone that has been a huge inspiration to me I cannot help but think of about one hundred kids, all under the age of seventeen, who […]
It is not that “at Camp Fantastic, the checkups just happen to be bookended by canoe rides, archery lessons, dance classes and a carnival,” but that, “at Camp Fantastic canoe rides, archery lessons, dance classes, and carnivals just happen to be bookended by medline.”
This is my third year of camp and it gets better each time. This year I’m with the teenagers for the first time and it is a whole lot of […]
My name is Tawney and this is my eighth year at camp. Camp Fantastic is a get-away from it all. Here campers don’t have to worry about anything. From the […]