The Maccoux Family Story - Giving Back
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Despite their medical misfortune, the Maccoux family is an amazingly strong, supportive and optimistic "team". And that's just what they are - a team. Each one of them would do anything to help one another out. What makes this family even more amazing is that any one of them would be just as willing to help someone else in need. That's just who they are.
At some point in everyone's lives, people think about their legacy. Their family has decided to use what most people widely consider negative events they have experienced and are trying to turn those to positive experiences by taking a "Giving Back " attitude by helping to influence changes that will help others in a similar situation be more positive.
Traci and Olivia
- Members of the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota. (Consists of 12 members that represent all campuses. The council helps hospital staff, leaders, doctors, and parents understand what is important to children, teens, and siblings during hospital stays, clinic visits, and emergency care).
- Interviewed by Channel 12 television and featured in two segments of Sport Jam Spotlight (2004 and 2006). This was intended to increase RSD and Hydrocephalus awareness as well as their swimming achievements.
Traci
- Volunteer at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis. Volunteer at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis. She spends time with children doing activities when the parents are not able to be with them.
- Assisted in Olivia's Hospital Toy Drive to benefit Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - St. Paul.
- Interviewed for RSD awareness articles in St. Paul Pioneer Press and Wayzata Sun Sailor news papers.
Olivia
- Conceived and organized "Olivia's Hospital Toy Drive" to benefit Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - St. Paul. Over 600 toys were collected and delivered by Olivia and her family.
- Participant in the MiracleKids Triathlon "Kids Racing for Kids Who Can't!" to benefit the Miracles for Mitch Foundation. The foundation's mission is to assist families with their "Quality of Living" expenses while living through the battle of childhood Cancer.
Amanda
- Recently served on to the Family Advisory Council at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota. (Council advises and advocates for children and their families, using experiences, wisdom, and diverse points of view, so that positive changes are made to the system and the community).
- Volunteer at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis. Volunteer at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis. She spends time with children doing activities when the parents are not able to be with them.
Cathy
- Member of the Family Advisory Council at Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota. (Council advises and advocates for children and their families, using experiences, wisdom, and diverse points of view, so that positive changes are made to the system and the community).
Family
- Dan and Cathy are active members in the Hydrocephalus Association. Participating in contacting members of congress to request support for new legislation to provide funding research to benefit people with Hydrocephalus at National Institute of Health (NIH).
- Dan and Cathy worked with Representative Melissa Hortman to support and introduce the "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Education and Research Program Act" (Bill HF2386). They testified before the Minnesota House of Representatives Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee on August 10, 2009 regarding their experience raising a child with RSD/CRPS and request their support in moving the bill forward.