Oh… Camp Sunshine… we are so very grateful! Through the generosity and compassion of our friends at Camp Sunshine, DBA families and patients from around the world met in Casco, Maine from July 9-14, 2017. Our eleventh family meeting was a huge success! As presentations are received and approved by the presenters, they will be posted to our website here: https://dbafoundation.org/families/camp-sunshine/
I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It’s hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it’s something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it. -Meg Howrey
Sometimes I feel like the odd one out, restricted by DBA. I just have to keep reminding myself that God wouldn’t bless me with this challenge if He didn’t think I could handle it. I don’t let DBA define me, I try to defy DBA.
Lily loves everyday she has, especially the ones she’s not in the hospital. Lily is the strongest little girl I know, my hero.
I am and always will be special. I am and always will be DBA Strong!
It is the tough things I have gone through with DBA that has made me the man I am.
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Just wanted to say thank you. Dawn and The Board at DBAF – you are all amazing, bringing the doctors and researchers all in to one room. The medical team and researchers gave such informative talks and taught us so much – and were great fun too!The research is getting there, we have just got to keep funding it. The Yellow Shirts and staff at camp, what wonderful humans. The children had a ball! Nancy, how you manage to get a lot of strangers in a room and before you know it its a family! Truly thankful.
Best week of our lives. xx
Comment by Eileen Rix on August 25, 2017 at 3:09 pm
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