I wanted to share with everyone this picture. This is a picture of most of the ladies that attended the confernce for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer. The majority of these women are under 40, some are in treatment some not. I just wanted to share this amazing sight.

Jamie

Well guess the honeymoon didn't last too long, had to have my implant removed on the 20th due to infection (big shock there!!!) I am finally starting to feel a little better, then pain has really been hard this time!!! It was a tough surgery, or maybe I am just becoming a big whimp!!
Life is getting crazy around here, Sarah's softball is in full swing (only lost one conference game so far, yeah!!) and Hunter's first game is tomorrow night. We signed Gage up to play T-Ball again, but he just really didn't want to play, guess I should make him to teach the lesson of following through, but it really doesn't hurt our feelings that much. With Billy coaching Hunter's team again this year and Sarah playing 2-4 games a week, it is good not to have to squeeze another game in.
School is about to come to an end soon and my baby girl will be a senior, where did the years go???? Not sure what we will do with ourselves without running and gunning with her, trying not to think much about it. She did really well on her ACT, made a 25, so hopefully she can raise it a point or two and get a full ride to Arkansas Tech, that is where she thinks she wants to go. She wants to go into teaching and maybe coaching, so that would be a good place for her to go. The boys are doing great in school as well, Hunter got in GT program and well Gage is just Gage, you just never know, lol!!!!
Well I will close this up for now, talk to you all soon.

Jamie

Updates

Well it has been a while since I have updated, I keep telling myself to update more, but time just gets away from me. I really don't know how I got everything done while I was working full time and still keeping up with the kids!!!

I have had another surgery on the 2nd, it was another reconstruction this time to work on the right side. This is the side that has remained undone since my original mastectomy, so it was good to finally get started on that side. I was back in Dallas again and had a Latiamus Dorsal flap (sp?) where they take a muscle from my back cut it and rotate it to the front. Then they put an implant in instead of an expander (due to my previous failed expander attempt). It is a smaller implant than the size of my other size, but they will put a larger one in at a later date. They will also do some work on the left side to get everything symetric. Hope that was not too much info, lol.

I also got to participate in a wonderful conference the weekend before my surgery there in Dallas for young survivors of breast cancer. I have never cried, laughed, giggled, hurt, and had more fun in my entire life. It was so refreshing to be with over 600 women who totally understand where I am coming from. These women were such an inspiration to me and have made many friends that I hope will be friends for life. Even women who are stage 4 with mets, gave me so much inspiration, and can not thank them all enough. Here are a few of the ladies that I had the privledge to meet while I was there.

This is me with Lisa and Melinda.

This is Bethany, Me, Christi and Nicole.

And finally me and Lisa again, even though Lisa is diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, she is such and fighter and wonderfully upbeat person. Thank you Lisa for allowing me to get to know you.

These are just a few of the wonderful ladies that I met and we are all from the website http://www.youngsurvival.org/. If you would like to donate to this wonderful website, please do, you can also check out so many stories from other women who have battled, lost their battle and are still battling.

Love to you all

Jamie

Hello all, just wanted to post a couple of new pics for you all. This beautiful little girl is my niece Cheyenne. I got to meet her for the first time in January and we love her so much. See fits in so well with the rest of our crazy crew and she loves Hannah Montana. Hoping to get to see her again really soon. Love you baby girl.


This is my nephew Cody and his little sister Cheyenne. This has to be one of my favorite pictures ever!!

All is going well on the home front, having a PET scan tomorrow to check to see if there is any reoccurance from my cancer, so please say a little prayer that all comes back clean.

Basketball season is over for Hunter, and they did so good. Sarah's season is just about to come to an end, two more conference games and then we will start the tournaments. Hopefully they will do well, but we shall see. We will move right on in to baseball and softball so no rest for mom and dad, but guess we will miss these days soon enough. I will update as soon as we get the results from my latest scans. I am due to have surgery again on the 2nd of March as long as the scans come back clean. We will be traveling to Dallas again, but hopefully this will be the last surgery for a while, I am kinda tired of getting cut on, lol.

Jamie

Sorry for the long delay!!

Sorry for the long delay in posts, things have been sooo crazy around here lately. With the holidays and all the ball games, we have been going all the time. Thank goodness I am feeling better these days, or I wouldn't been able to keep up.

Sarah is in full basketball mode as well as Hunter starting his first year of peewee basketball. We are averaging two -four games a week, plus I have had the flu this last week, so really tired and worn out.

This is from a tournament her high school team won at Benton Harmony Grove, they won first place after a hard fought game. Sarah is the third from the left in back row.

This is the picture that we used for our Christmas cards this year, but I didn't get them mailed out, so everyone will be getting a Winter Wishes card instead, sorry!!!

This is Hunter and me at the state capitol before Christmas, we had a very good time and Hunter wanted a picture with "just me and mom" so thought this was a great place to take it.

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, talk to you all soon.

Jamie

Well guys I am back in the hospital here in Little Rock. I had an abcess develop near a bone in my pelvis so I am just waiting to see if they are going to drain it or just put me on antibiotics. I know I will come home with the IV antibiotics again (or at least I think I will).
I just wanted to give a quick update and will update more later.

Jamie

Hello everybody, sorry for the long absence. Things really haven't changed much around here, finally got to stop the hyperbaric treatments, but still having to do the daily wound dressing changes. These are really starting to get old, but with everything so open still, they are still required. Poor Billy will probably have a nursing degree by the time we get these wounds healed up.
I got to go to a Splitcoast Stampers get together at Memphis this last weekend. My friend Sonya was nice enough to drive me up there, and we had a really good time. I am hoping to get some pictures of all the stuff we made up on my stamping blog by tomorrow, please check them out if you get a chance.
Also, if you get a chance, please check out our friend Jason (or Jase as Nashville wanted him to go with a different name) myspace page. They just finished shooting their first music video and you can watch it there. We are all so proud of Jason and Kara (his wife) they have worked so hard to get where they are and deserve everything. If you like the song, please call your local radio stations (country) and request it. We are all hoping that they break into the top 40 soon.
Hope you all have a great week.

Jamie