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About M.A.D. Maddie began selling jewelry out of her hospital room at Hamilton Health Sciences Children's Hospital at McMaster. Maddie did this while fighting ongoing nausea, with hardly any energy and on constant pain medication to get through. She had not eaten anything for more than two months as the chemotherapy had burned her digestive tract and she couldn't swallow. She was fed by IV and a G-tube in her stomach. When she began selling jewelry, to nurses, friends and others in the community, she created MAD, an acronym for making a difference and the first three letters of her name. MAD has since taken on even more projects, and it's Maddie's hope that through her fundraising efforts, she can raise money for school supplies, teachers, books and more for the school in Africa. The $6,000 for the well is already on its way to Africa. |
