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 :)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

February 21, 2011

Today was a big day! Trystan wasn't happy at all about missing school to have to go down to the hospital. Most kids would jump at the chance to have a "day off". But not Trystan! I think because she had to miss so much school when she was sick. We dropped Alyssa off this morning at school and headed to St. Louis. We arrived at a little before 9:30 a.m. and went straight to radiology for her CT scan that was scheduled at 9:45 a.m. We were called back just about on time! However, we had to go up to the 7th floor for her CT because the one in radiology was giving them fits. Thank goodness they have an extra one so we were still able to have it done and didn't have to reschedule! Trystan is just such a pro when it comes to having to lay still. She did AWESOME! After she finished with her CT scan we went down to the 2nd floor to have her bloodwork done. Once we were called back, the lady drawing Trystan's blood either is just a crabby woman or was having a bad day and she got the brunt of it! We all left there not very happy with the way we were treated! The next stop was the 9th Floor to see Dr. Wilson. Our appointment wasn't until 11:30 a.m. and when we arrived it was only 10:30 a.m. We were sure hoping it wasn't busy and that there may be a slight chance we could get in early. Luck would have it that we were called back early. Trystan had her vitals done: blood pressure, pulse/ox, weight, and height. We then went back to the examining room to wait for Dr. Wilson. He came in right after us to let us know that the CT scan was in fact clear! The bloodwork wasn't back yet and they would call us later with those results. He also told us that since Trystan is one year out and clear that she is now extened to every four months! We are now scheduled to go back toward the end of June.

We were so happy with the results it was time to have a celebration lunch. We gave Trystan the choice of places to go to eat. She chose Long John Silver's because she loves their popcorn shrimp! It was so early when we got back that she wanted to go to school. I dropped her off a little after 1 p.m. She was so happy to be back at school!

Thank you all for your continued prayers! Keep them coming!! God is sooo good and continues to show His face to us!
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