Am I really going to blog?: Samantha's big day

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Samantha's big day

She was up bright & early this morning, too excited to sleep in. We are leaving soon for Columbus. We'll start with lunch with "the real Kim" who was Cameron's favorite nurse & has really become a part of our family. Later this afternoon, we'll be enjoying "Disney on Ice." Then,
off to a hotel. Tomorrow: Build-a-Bear Workshop. Will be taking (& sharing) lots of photos.

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We're going to meet at Red Brick in Athens at 6-ish on Tuesday March 3 for Cameron's birthday celebration. Everyone is invited to join us at Cameron's favorite restaurant & for his favorite meal - hot wings.

If you are coming, we ask that you bring either a picture or a special memory (or both) of Cameron. I will also have the journals available for you to write your memories in.

If you unable to come, please send your pictures & memories by mail to our home address.

If you want to buy a gift, please consider a Wii or Playstation game that we will donate to J5 in Cameron's honor.

3 comments:

herMarch 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Lori I hope your family has a wonderful time in Columbus and at the birthday party in Cameron's honor.

You and my dear friend Stephanie are celebrating memorable events in your stories this week...thank you for the encouragement you gave to her! We knew Jason and he was everything Stephanie says he is...I did not met yoursweet Cameron but I can tell he was everything you say he is and more!

Celebrate w/tears and joy! I'll be prayin for ya!
Joy, DeeDee
John 15:11
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AnonymousMarch 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM
The poem "I Hope" hit home hard as I too have lost a child to AML. My daughter died 11/14/07 and I have another daughter in remission from AML. There are no words to describe what it feels like to lose a child.

I love what you are doing to honor Cameron on his birthday. My daughter loved Disney on Ice, Build A Bear, and eating! We continue to spend time with her favorite nurse and have donated items in her honor too. Enjoy every memory and know that Cameron is smiling down on all of you and looks forward to your reunion in Heaven.

www.caringbridge.org/nc/sherilyn

Laura Adams
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RobinMarch 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Have a graet trip. You are in my thoughts.
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I HOPE....

I hope you never have to hear the words, 'Your child has cancer.'

I hope you never have to hear, 'The prognosis is not good.'

I hope you never have to prepare to undergo radiation or chemotherapy, have a port surgically inserted into their chest, be connected to IV poles. Look at you with fear in their eyes and say, 'Don't worry Mommy, everything will be okay.'

I hope you never have to hold your child as they vomit green bile.

I hope you never have to feed them ice chips for lunch.

I hope you never have to watch the 'cure' you pray for slowly take away their identity, as they lose their hair, become skeletal, swell up from steroids, develop severe acne, become barely or unable to walk or move, and look at you with hope in their eyes and say,'It's going to be okay, Mommy.'

I hope that you never have to stay in the hospital for weeks, months, or years at a time, where there is no privacy, sleeping on a slab, with your face to the wall, where you cry in muffled silence.

I hope you never have to see a mother, alone, huddled, in a dark hospital corridor...crying quietly, after just being told, 'There is nothing more we can do.'

I hope you never have to watch a family wander aimlessly, minutes after their child's body has been removed.

I hope you never have to use every bit of energy you have left, with all of this going on around you to remain positive, and the feelings of guilt, sorrow, hope and fear, overwhelm you.

I hope you never have to see a child's head bolted to the table as they receive radiation.

I hope you never have to take your child home (grateful but so afraid) in a wheelchair because the chemo and radiation has damaged their muscles, 35 pounds lighter, pale, bald, and scarred. And they look at you with faith in their eyes and say, 'It's going to be okay Mommy.'

I hope you never have to face the few friends that have stuck beside you and hear them say, 'Thank God that is over with,'...because you know it never will be. Your life becomes a whirl of doctors, blood tests and MRI's and you try to get your life back to 'normal'. While living in mind-numbing fear that any one of those tests could result in hearing the dreaded words...'The cancer has returned' or 'The tumor is growing.' And your friends become even fewer.

I hope you never have to experience any of these things... Because...only then...Will you understand...

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