JEANS MONTH - HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!

We would like to share that our Jeans Month was a HUGE success!!! Trystan and Alyssa were able to raise $11,300 for St. Louis Children's Hospital 9th Floor Hematology/Oncology Unit.

Businesses had "clever" ways to participate in Jeans Month. We would like to share those with you:

-The Bond County Sheriff's Department allowed their deputies to pay to grow facial hair and their dispatchers to wear jeans.
-St. Mary's School, in Edwardsville, extended not only to their staff but to their students, who wear uniforms every day, to pay to wear their jeans on Fridays during the month of February!
-West Springs Church in Missouri dedicated a Jeans Sunday and all the members of the church paid $1 to wear their jeans to church that Sunday.
-Watson's Drug Store made buttons that said, "Ask Me Why I'm Wearing Jeans"
-McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice made stickers to explain why they were wearing jeans.
-Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n hosted a fundraiser at their restaurant for an entire Saturday.

Those businesses that allowed their employees to pay to wear their jeans, varied in the way they participated. Some allowed their employees to wear jeans for the entire month! While others did once a week, every Friday, twice a week for the month, etc. Any way you look at it, the businesses of our community and surrounding communities came together to help "give back"!

We also had businesses and factories that are already allowed to wear jeans to work take up a collection just to help "give back."

We had more than three dozen businesses either participate or collecto donations:

The Hardas Team-Highland, IL
Bridget Tinsley Photography-Highland, IL
Southwestern Electric-Greenville, IL
DeCurtis Corporation-Orlando, FL
FCC Preschool-Greenville, IL
First National Bank-Greenville, IL
Washington University Department of Surgery-St. Louis, MO
Enertech-Greenville, IL
Greenville Elementary School-Greenville, IL
Midland State Bank-Greenville, IL
Tri-Ford-Highland, IL
Ford Square-Mt. Vernon, IL
Greenville Jr. High 6th Graders-Greenville, IL
Glow Salon & Med Spa-MO
West Springs Church-MO
Bradford National Bank-Greenville, IL
DeMoulin's-Greenville, IL
St. Mary's School-Edwardsville, IL
VFW Ladies Auxiliary-Highland, IL
Schnuck's-Fairview Heights, IL
Bond County Health Department-Greenville, IL
Bass Mollett-Greenville, IL
TRICOR Braun-MO
Bond County Courthouse-Greenville, IL
Montgomery County Nursing & Rehab-Hillsboro, IL
McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice-Greenville, IL
SIUE Human Resources-Edwardsville, IL
United Stationers-Greenville, IL
Main Street Galaxy Restaurant-Alhambra, IL
Terra Properties-Highland, IL
Bond County Sheriff's Department-Greenville, IL
IGA-Staunton, IL
Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n-Staunton, IL
Ethal's-Highland, IL
Mulberry Grove Elementary School-Mulberry Grove, IL
Watson's Drug Store-Greenville, IL
Pocahontas & Sorento Elementary Schools-Pocahontas & Sorento, IL
Salon de Guerra-Highland, IL
Law Offices of Michael Diaz-Greenville, IL
Klaus Services-Highland, IL

Our family was overwhelmed with the response to Jeans Month. In the beginning we were hoping to raise $500-$1,000. That goal was met before February 1st. Our girls then set a goal of $5,000 and that was surpassed! Lastly, they set a goal of $10,000 which was met at the very end of March. But the calls and checks kept coming through the second week of March. Our family would like to thank the businesses who participated and gave donations! We would also like to thank the many inidividual donations we received from those who just wanted to give.

My husband and I took the girls down to St. Louis Children's Hospital March 21, 2010 to present the donations to the hospital. Upon arrival the hospital had printed a "HUGE" check to present. The girls presented the check to Dr. Wilson, Dr. Ziga, and Nurse Practitioner Karen from the 9th Floor.

Thank you all for everything,

The Watson Family :)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

February 24, 2010

This morning Tracy took Alyssa to school, while I headed with Trystan to Maryville for bloodwork. He then met us at Quest and we headed over to the surgeon's office in St. Louis. We arrived right a 10:00 a.m. and she was to get x-rays of her right tibia. After the x-rays were finished we saw the doctor. He pulled up the x-rays on the computer along with a few of her older x-rays to show us the movement of her bone. He told us that she now has two loose screws at the top and now the bone that they put in is pulling away from the bone. Not good news. Originally the doctor was going to wait for more bone growth, but too much has changed in the last six weeks. The doctor also said that he wanted to do surgery within the next month because he is afraid that the bone may snap if he waits too long. The surgery is tentatively scheduled for March 19th. He will be going in straightening the bone, retightening the screws and taking bone from her hip and doing a bone graph to "build up" the top part of her tibia. In hopes that it will help to make that bone stonger and heal faster. Tracy and I knew in the long run she was going to have to have surgery but was thinking it was going to be much later. It came as a shock that she was going to have to have another bone graph and that the surgery was going to be so soon. Trystan seems to be angry. But who can blame her? I'm a little depressed myself.

Came home from getting some not so wonderful news to getting a call from the clinic. Thankfully some good news. Trystan's hemoglobin and platelets are both in the normal range! Praise God. Her white blood cell and anc are higher than they were last week, not normal yet but at least they're climbing!

Once we have the date confirmed for her surgery, I guess I'll have to call and talk to the lady who is in charge of granting Trystan's wish. We may have to reschedule it. Hoping we don't have to but we also want her to be able to swim, which she won't be able to do much if she's back in a cast from surgery.

Please continue to pray for Trystan and our family. We appreciate all of your prayers. God does listen.
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