Jaimee Makes The Paper

Logan, Utah's Herald Journal has an article about Jaimee's run with Team Tumor.

The first picture is just as she finished her very hard 1st leg. The 2nd is Jaimee and Sherri mid-run half way through the 1st leg.

These pictures Were printed in the paper. Let me say, we are all proud of her, as well as the other members of her team!

Marathon Woman

Jaimee started the marathon this morning. It's been a long road.

The iron transfusions have been tough. She had a PICC line placed a couple of days before the first infusion of June 9th. It's caused some problems but she's dealing. The infusions themselves have been hard. She was really sick, dizzy, everything in her body ached, stuff like that. The dr. said it is hard on her body and organs because they were so depleted. On the 9th he told her she shouldn't run the marathon and gave her a note to that effect.

She did her 2nd infusion on the 16th, two days ago. While it's been hard and she hasn't felt well, it hasn't been as hard as the first one. Hopefully the last one next week will be easier. AND she can get the PICC line out on Wed. This week, after she explained to the dr. how careful she would be at the marathon (walk instead of run if need be, stop if she feels too bad) he gave her a note that said she could participate. The note made it so the support van would stay close to her so if a problem arose she could stop immediately.

That being said......Sue drove her up early this morning so she could get a night's sleep in her own bed. She was in Logan by 8:30 am or so. She ran and walked her first leg which was 6.7 miles. It was really, really hard but she shed tears of joy after completing it. She said her teammates were awesome and so encouraging. And it was so hard she didn't think she could do it. But she made it! After her whole life of battling asthma, 2 rounds of chemo and all else, today our Jaim is a marathon runner. (The picture above was taken after her first must difficult run, meaning...she survived! :))

We know her health problems are not anywhere near as tough as some of those of her dear, dear friends. They have been such an inspriation for her and I'm sure she has been for some of them as well.

She runs her next leg at 9:30 pm tonight. It's only 3 miles long. The 3rd leg is 3.3 miles and I don't know how long the last one is. The marathon will end at 9:30 tomorrow night!

Go Jaimee Go!

Fred's Dead!

Good news everyone. Fred is Dead! Gone. Zip. Nada. Jaim will be on antibiotics for a couple of more weeks to make sure that bugger stays away, but right now he is history.

AND, the tumor didn't grow any more. We'll take that, although it does need to shrink.

Just one more hurdle in the foreseeable future and that is the iron transfusion. It ends up being a nightmare for Jaimee because of her veins, but she is going to request a PICC line (you know it's bad when Jaimee would rather have a PICC line than what happened the last time). The other possibility is (I think) a mid-line. It still needs an xray machine to use when putting it in, but it isn't as invasive as the PICC line. We also have to watch carefully for signs of her being allergic to the transfusion (as happened before). But let's keep our fingers crossed.

Dare we hope Jaimee can have a break on things medical for a minute?