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Monday, March 24, 2014 9:16 PM CDT

I cannot believe you moved to heaven 8 years ago.
It has been the longest and hardest 8 years of my life even
though I know where you are and that one day I will see you again.
Cade is growing up so fast and you would be so proud of h Cassidy.
He will be graduating from Flatwoods Elementary in May and moving
on to middle school. He still likes to stay busy cutting grass and playing sports but he is not as wild as he used to be. I know you would be glad of that. Weasel is still hanging in there with him even though she has a little more white hair than she used to. We still talk to her about you and sometimes I even catch her sleeping in your room. I promised you we wouldn't let her forget you and it's one promise we are keeping.
Cade and I are at the beach today because this is the one place you loved so much and we spent the day at the zoo because that was the other thing you loved to do. I love and miss you so much!

Friday, June 14, 2013 9:40 AM CDT

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Cassudy! Happy Birthday to you!
14 years ago GOD blessed me with a beautiful Angel!
I know he only gave you to for a short time but in that time you
Touched more lives than most people do in a life time.
We miss and love you so much!

Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:03 PM CDT

Cassidy,
I cannot believe you have been gone for 7 years.
It sure has not been easy and I cannot believe
you have been gone longer than you were here
with me. You will always be my special angel and I
cherish all the memories I have of you. I cannot
wait until the day I can hold you in my arms again.
You would be so proud of Cade Man if you were here
he has turned into quite an handsome boy and he is
not nearly as wild as he used to be. In fact sometimes
I think weasel is more wild than Cade. We all miss and
love you very much!

Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:12 PM CDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET ANGEL!
I miss you more and more each day and I hope you have a great birthday in heaven! I cannot believe you would be a teenager (13) today! We will be sending you some balloons tonight from one of your favorite places(the beach). We love and miss you more everyday!

Saturday, March 24, 2012 8:11 PM CDT

Cassidy, I thought of you today which is nothing new. I think about you everyday and miss you more and more. I cannot believe it has been 6 years since I held you in my arms. People often say that time heals all wounds but those people have never lost a child. I wish so much that we could all still be together but God had other plans and I know you are in a better place and that is my comfort. When you moved to heaven you took a piece of my heart with you and until we can be together no one will ever be able to fill it. I know one day we will be together again and God has promised us that when we meet again we will never have to be apart again. I want you to know that I love you very much and I miss you more than you will ever know. Cade misses you too and yes I want you to know he is still wild. He takes good care of Weasel for you and today we went to the cemenetary to send you balloon's like we often do and of course he had to weedeat every thing and wash your foot stone and bench and all so that it will look good for you. He was a little upset because his balloon got stuck in the tree but I told him you were probably sitting in the tree watching us and was holding it.
I explained to him angels can be anywhere and they are everywhere watching over us and protecting us. I hope poppy and maw maw will give you an extra hug and kiss for us today. We miss all of ya'll so much.
Forever missing and loving you!
xo xo xo xo

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:13 AM CDT

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Cassidy! Happy Birthday to you! I cannot believe you would be 12 years old today or that it has been 5 years since I have gotten to hold you in my arms and kiss your beautiful face or even have one of our special talks we used to have. I know you are in a much better place and that you are no longer worried about doctors and needles and that you are no longer in pain but the selfish side of me wishes you were still here with us. I miss you so much! I wonder all the time what you would be like, what you would like and not like. What you would look like now and what kind of person you would be but I think I know the answer to the last one because you were always a very caring and loving person who always wanted everyone to be happy and didn't want anyone to be upset with you. You would be a very proud big sister Cade has turned out to be alot like you in so many ways. He still loves his yard work except now he actually can cut and weed eat the yard with the real thing and not play lawn mowers and weed eaters. We have planted two gardens and he is a very big help with them. He can still probably out you and he isn't a picky eater like you were he actually loves to eat his vegetables but he is also like you because he loves fruit. He still loves it outside no matter how hot or cold it is. He loves to hunt and fish and will go as often as he can. He still loves to play sports football, basketball and baseball. He just changes with the season but if he had to pick something over the other I think he would pick hunting and fishing first of course he is still pretty wild like you use to say I guess that is just Cade being Cade. We will be sending you some balloons today for you birthday because we know how much you like them and I can't wait until the day we can all be together again. Weasel is still doing great even though I am sure she misses you and can't wait until she can give you some of her special kisses!!! Forever missing and loving you! XOXO Happy Birthday My Special Angel!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:03 PM CDT

Cassidy, I cannot believe it has been 4 years since you moved to heaven. It has been four years since I have got to hold you, hug you, hear your voice and see your famous smile with your crinkled up nose. These have been four of the hardest years of my life. There is not a day that goes by I don't think of you. I have lots of great memories and some not so great. I have lots of pictures and all of your drawings. I wouldn't take anything in the world for any of those things.I thank God for the time he let me have you and even though you were sick for a while he blessed me by letting me be able to be off work and spend all my time with you. As someone once told me if you can have grief or nothing what would you take and they were right I would take grief because there is not a day that goes by that I am not thankful for having you in my life. You were truely my angel on earth and you touched so many people's lives for the short while you were allowed to be on earth. You were the bravest, strongest person I have ever known and I only hope I can be as strong and brave as you were one day. We all miss you so much and Cade talks about you all the time. He really misses having a sister. Of course he is all boy and loves fishing and hunting. I am not to sure you would like him hunting but I know you would enjoy fishing with him. You alway's liked fishing yourself. He is also a big Alabama fan just like you were, it drives your daddy crazy. They often pick on each other over Auburn and Alabama games. Weasel is still doing good of couse she is spoiled rotten and sometimes I don't think she realizes she is a dog but we both know who made her that way. Well Cassidy I know tomorrow will be a hard day for all of us but I guess everyday is hard but I wanted you to know how proud we are of you and how much we all miss you. I guess it's like that country song We are not crying for you we know where you are and how much better you are, we are crying for us and how much you are missed here. So Cassidy keep dancing on the stars and chasing the rainbows. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy, Cade and Weasel xoxo

Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:06 PM CST

I am so sorry it has been so long since we last updated. Since school started back we have been really busy. Cade played fall baseball and before we knew it halloween has come and gone. He had a birthday and now he is seven. I really don't know were all the time goes but it seems to be going fast. My daddy used to tell me once you get out of school time flies by and now I know what he was talking about. This birthday semed a little harder on me, I guess because it is the first year that he turned older than Cassidy got to. He still keeps me busy and I am glad of that, for those of you who knows me you know I like to be busy. It keeps me from thinking to much. He is getting really excited about christmas but for me I am not ready for it. If it wasn't for him I think I could just skip it. It seems to come around to quick. This time of year is really hard but I just put on a smile and keep going because I know that is what Cassidy would want me to do. Well I wanted to keep it short so I will stop just remeber to keep all the kids and thier families who are having to face this horrible disease in your prayers especilly during the holiday season.

Cassidy, We miss you so much and we will never forget just how brave and stong you are. You made us very proud to be your parents. We love you so much!! Mommy, daddy,Cade and weasel

Monday, August 10, 2009 10:54 AM CDT

I can't believe tomorrow is the first day of school. Where did the summer go? Cade will start first grade tomorrow and it will be a new experience for us since Cassidy never got to go to first grade. Cade is not excited to be going back to school but hopefully after seeing all his friends tonight at open house he will be ready. It's hard for me to believe that this would be Cassidy's last year at flatwoods. Her class will be graduating next may. Where does the time go? My daddy used to tell me all the time once you get out of high school the years will start flying by and now I know what he was talking about. We all have been doing good just staying really busy. Please keep praying for a cure for cancer because a we are well aware there is alot of kids who will not be going to school tomorrow because of this awful disease. It robs them of thier childhood and it just doesn't seem fair. Hopefully one day it will not exist.

Cassidy, I love and miss you so much. Ever since the day you left there has been a hole in my heart that will never be able to be filled but you made me one of the proudest momma's in the whole world. Keep Cade company tomorrow on his first day of school I love you! Mommy,daddy and Cade

Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:34 PM CDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CASSIDY,HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! I can't believe you would be 10 years old today it seems like yesterday you were here and you were turning 6. I wonder what you would look like now and what you would be like. I am sure if you were still with us you would still be the special little girl we knew and loved. Cade and I sent you some balloons from the beach today. Cade picked them out and wrote on all three for us. When we sent them up they went staight toward the beach. I told Cade you were probably at the beach waiting on them cause the beach was always one of your favorite places. We just wanted to let you know we miss and love you very much and we can't wait until the day when we can all be together again.
Forever missing and loving you! mommy,daddy,cade and weasel

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:04 PM CDT

Hey Everyone! Sorry it's been so long since I last updated but things have been really busy and sometimes it's just hard to find the right words to write. Well today was Cade's last day of school. He is officially a first grader. Where does the time go, he is growing up way too fast for me. Since Cassidy got sick and moved to her heavenly home. I take extra time to spend with Cade, I learned to live each day like their is no tomorrow the dishes, and the house can wait. It will all still be there when he is grown up and gone but I will never get this time back with him. I hope everyone will hug your child more often and spend time with them because you will never get their childhood back and we sure don't know what tomorrow will bring. My hope is that one day they will find a cure for childhood cancer because no parent or child should have to face it. Please continue to pray for all the kids and their families that are having to battle this horrible diesease.

Cassidy, their is not a day goes by that I don't think of you and miss you. You were truely my angel on earth and I am so blessed that God let me have you as long as he did. I can't wait until the day when we can be together again.
Forever missing and loving you! Mommy, Daddy, Cade and Weasel

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:48 PM CDT

Cassidy, I can't belive it is has been 3 years today since you moved to heaven. In some ways it feels like it happend yesterday and in other ways it seems like it has been forever. I would give anything to be able to hold you in my arms again and kiss you. I really don't understand why people say it gets easier with time. It doesn't it just makes you miss them more. I would love to see your crinkled up nose and the smile you always had with it. You are the bravest strongest person I have ever met and you touched so many people in a few short 6 years than I will ever be able to touch in a life time. I know you are in heaven standing by Jesus cured and whole again and that is what gets me through each day along with all the memories we made along the way. I prayed that God would cure you and I know he did just not in the way I wanted him too . He has a better plan and one day I'll not only know what it is but understand it also. He blessed me by giving you to me and also with the time I had with you when you were sick. He gave me the ability to be able to be with all the time. It made me understand that you need to take the time you have with your family and friends to be with them and to let them know just how much you love them because life is too short so you never need to take it for granted. Some days I want to tell Cade I can't play with him right now but I will later and then I remember I need to take the time I have now for him and everything else can wait. We all miss you so much . I love you so much it hurts but I know one day when God is ready we will all be able to be together again, and next time I will never have to loose you again. We love You! mommy,daddy, cade and weasel xoxo

Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:13 AM CST

Cassidy, We hope Gizmo made it to you o.k. Cade was really upset when he moved to heaven with you but he said he knew you could take good care of him. We will miss him but now he can play with you and Rusty. He sure was a good dog for all of us. I'll never forget him laying there so that you and Regan could cover him with dirt. Of course he let all the kids do whatever they wanted to him as long as he was getting your attention he didn't care. We will miss him terribly but it only right that he is back with you now. We miss and love you more and more everyday. You were the best angel on earth! Mommy,Daddy and Cade
P.s. We are still taking care of Weasel for you.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:38 PM CST

Sorry it's been so long since I updated but sometimes it's just hard to find the right words to say. We have all been doing ok. Cade is busy at school and seems to be doing really well. He was most excited because he no longer has to take naps at school. We are gearing up for baseball again. He is really excited. We survived hunting season even though he never got a deer he loved it any way. He is already talking about next year. Cade and i are getting ready to run this weekend. He is doing the kids mercedes marathon and I am doing the 5k for kids one transport. I wish I was in shape enough to do the mercedes marathon but I know I would never make it. I hope they can raise enough to eventually find a cure for cancer.

Cassidy, I wanted to wish you a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I still have the last valentine's card you made me and I look at it often. Cade made me one this year and I know you would get a kick out of it because he wrote it to loser mom.lol I wonder where he got that from.Ha HA We will be running for you on Saturday and I know you will be with us. Ever since you left for heaven I have had a passion for finding a cure for cancer. I don't want any other kids to have to face what you did but you did it bravely and I don't think I could have been as strong as you were. I love and miss you so much.I can't wait until the day I can hold you in my arms again.
FOREVER MISSING AND LOVING YOU! mommy,daddy,cade,weasel and gizmo

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:05 PM CST

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR! I can't believe another year has come and gone.Today was alway's one of Cassidy's favorite holiday's, she loved the sparkler's and firework's. I know she will have a great seat tonight to watch all the firework's. Cade is really excited about the firework's tonight also. He is hunting right now but said he would be back in time for them. Cade had a really good christmas and has really enjoyed just being out of school. He has beeen hunting alot and playing with his cousin's. He is not ready for school to go back but I on the other hand am ready for us to go back into a routine. I hope everyone has a wonderful new year and maybe if we all keep praying that soon they will find a cure for cancer.

Cassidy, I miss you so much and I will be thinking about you tonight while we watch the firework's. I love you! XOXO mommy, daddy, and Cade P.S. Cade got a guniea pig from santa this year and he named it Max

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:49 AM CST

HAPPY tHANKSGIVING! We hope everyone gets to spend the day with their family and friends. Let those who mean the most to you know just how thankful you are for them. Give your kids lots of hugs today and pray for all the kids and their families who are having to spend their thanksgiving battling cancer.

Cassidy, I just want you to know just how thankful I am for the time God let me have you. You were the best daughter any mother could ask for. We all love and miss you so much! Daddy, Mommy, Cade, Gizmo and Weasel xo xo xo xo

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:40 AM CST

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We hope everyone gets to spend the day with their family. We hope you will let those who mean the most to you just how thankful you are for them. Give your kids an extra hug today!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:58 PM CDT

Hey! I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to update this page. I tried to a few weeks ago and some how it didn't work and I thought I would do it again and I am just now getting back to it. I will try and do it more often. Well Cade turned 6 on Sat. We had his party on Fridsy night due to Alabama playing at home on Sat. We went bowling and then on Sat. we went to the quad(he wanted to all the jumpies) and to the game and on Sun. we went to the races in talledega. His favorite friver is Tony Stewart so he got to see him win the race. He loved it. He had a really big weekend of course he is fine but I am still tired. I can't believe he is six already time sure does fly. It was kinda hard planning his party this year. I guess because Cassidy's sixth birthday was her last one. I know things are entirely different but sometimes things just keep pulling me back to those day's.
Cade has been playing fall baseball and they started their tournament games last night. His team won so we are playing again tonight and they win tonight they will play again on Thursday for the championship if they lose tonight will be his last game. I don't know what he will do to burn all his extra energy when it's over but I am sure he will find something. He got a quiater for his birthday so now he want's to take lesson's so I guess I'll have to find out what age you have to be to start with lesson's.
One of my employee's had to have a double lung transplant a few week's ago due to C.F. so I would like to ask everyone to keep her in your prayer's. So far everything is going well. She has a caringbridge page if you would like to check in on her. I am sure she would like that I think she is pretty bored and of course ready to go home. Her name is christiesatterfield. Also please continue to pray for all the kids who are still having to battle cancer and their families.

Cassidy, we miss you so much and Cade ask about you constantly. You are still the bravest person I know. I'll be sending you some balloon's soon. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy & Cade

Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:25 PM CDT

Summer has been really busy and that is good I nguess. Cade started school last week and he is in kindergarten this year. I can't believe it. The starting of school and the beginning of fall has alway's been hard for me but this year it seems especially hard. I guess because that is what grade Cassidy was in when she was diagnosed. I can't believe that was four years ago this month. At open house I seen alot of Cassidy's friends and I just can't imagine her being that big. I guess she will alway's be 6 to me. Cade did really well,I guess him getting to do pre-k there really help maybe a little too much. He only made it three day's this year before he got in trouble for talking. He rode the bus home one day last week,he had been begging me since schoolstarted, so I finally let him so he thinks he is really big now. He was a little mad because I was at the corner making sure he got off, he told me next time to wait at the house. I guess mother's have a hard time letting their kids grow up.

Cassidy, We miss you so much, I wish you could have been with him when he started school so you could keep a eye on him for me. We went to the beach to watch the boat races and I alway's feel closer to you there. I guess because that was your favorite place to go. I just want you to know that there is not a day that goes by that I don't think about you and how brave your were during your battle with the bump on your head. I can't wait until I can hold you in my arms again. Watch over Cade when I can't. I love you and miss you so much. Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:21 AM CDT

Cassidy, it's that time of year again we are having vacation Bible School and it sure is different without you there. I have one little girl in my class who is potty training and it reminded of the time you learned to use the potty at bible school,you may not have learned a single bible verse but you were completly potty trained by the end.(LOL)I have the whole crew going with me again this year and they are having a blast except Cade slept through class the first night. Your crazy brother hasn't changed to much. I know you are right there watching over all of us so I wanted you to know how much we miss having you with us. Sebastion Lemos earned his Angel Wings Saturday night. I hope you and Kadin were there to welcome him home. I know ya'll were all in the hospital together and now you all can keep each other company until we can all be together again one day. Forever missing and loving you! Daddy, Mommy and Cade (xoxo)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:00 PM CDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET ANGEL! I miss you so very much but I know heaven is so much better for you then your time here was. I can't even begin to imagine how big a party you must have in heaven because you alway's loved planning your birthday parties. I thank God for all the time he allowed me to be your mommy. I have some wonderful memories that I will cherish forever and I cannot wait until the day I can hold you in my arms again and give you all my kisses. I hope you will alway's know who loves you the mostest... I thought about all our wonderful times together on your birthday but we were at the beach so I couldn't write until now. I hope poppy gave you a big hug and kiss from me on your birthday and I hope you gave him a big hug and kiss from me on father's day! I hope you liked the balloon's Cade picked out and sent you on your birthday. He misses you too and send's all his love. Forever loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:47 PM CDT

I can't believe it is May already and that it is half way over. Since Cade started baseball it has been non-stopped. We have ball three night's a week and on top of that I told a friend of mine I would work her maternity leave so it seem like we never stop. Cade loves baseball even though his team hasn't won but one game he seem's to really enjoy it,he just keep's asking me why they can't win but at this point he isn't too upset about it. Even though I have been working at the dentist and trying to help mom with the shop it help's me to stay busy. The less free time I have the better it is on me. I don't have to much time to think about all the things that has happened over the last five year's. Tomorrow will be three year's since my daddy(poppy) moved to heaven and his birthday would have been on the 19th so we have to face more anniversary right now and that is alway's really hard. I still don't know where people get that time makes things easier because it sure doesn't seem like it to me. I hope Cassidy and poppy will give each other a big hug from me tomorrow. I have a couple of friend's that have just lost their father's so please keep them and their family's in your prayer's because they have a very long road ahead of them. It doesn't seem like to me it is as hard at first as it is later when the call's
and card's quit coming and everyone has gone back to their normal lives and your will never be the same.

Cassidy,I am so proud that you blessed me by letting me be your mother. You are still the bravest and stronest person I know and I miss you more everyday. Make sure you give poppy a big hug and kiss from me and Cade and tell him I hope he has a happy birthday! Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:59 PM CDT

I just wanted to give a quick update and let everyone we are all doing o.k. Cade has been keeping us really busy between playing ball and running him here and there. He really seems to be enjoying playing ball. He is also doing really well in school and I can't believe this year will soon be over. Although I am ready for some beach trips and some down time. I am trying to run my store and doing some fill-in dental hygiene work and I am busier than I have been in a long time. Not that I am complaining because the busier I am the better I like it but it will be nice just to go to the beach and relax for awhile. Keep all our friends and everyone still having to battle this awful disease in your prayers. I am still praying for a cure.

Cassidy,I miss you more with each passing day but thank you for all the wonderful memories and every time I am relly missing you thanks for all the signs you send me to let me know it's o.k. the rainbow's ,the butterflies and the flower's blooming. Cade still talks about you all the time and he is alway's doing something nice for his sister he say's. He misses you alot and wishes you were still here to play with. I LOVE YOU!!! Mommy,Daddy, and Cade

Monday, March 24, 2008 3:23 PM CDT

Cassidy, I cannot believe it has been two years today since I got to hold you in my arms and to hug and kiss you. I miss your sweet smile,the way you crinckled your nose,your laughter and yes I even miss the way you ordered us all around when you were in the hospital. I wish you could have stayed on this earth with me but I guess God had a better plan.I cannot wait for the day when we can all join you in heaven but until that day I hope poppy and mamaw will hold your hand and give you all the hugs and kisses I would if you were still here. Weasel and Gizmo are doing well and Cade is still a wild man. I know you in a better place and I am thankful for all the time God let us have you. It is like Mrs.Helen told me between love and grief,I'll take grief and that is excactly how I feel. I'll alway's be thankful for the time we had you and I look forward to the day we we can be togther again. I love you!
Forever missing and loving you!
Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Sunday, March 9, 2008 11:22 AM CDT

Well we got up early yesterday to play inthe snow.Cade and I had such a good time throwing snowball's at each other and we even made a tiny snowman which cade made me put in the freezer so it wouldn't melt. All our snow was gone by 9:00 a.m. and then as you know the day turned out to be really pretty and we spent most of it outside even though it was still cold. It was just to pretty to be inside. I think we all just have a touch of spring fever. When Cade and I played in the snow yesterday I couldn't help but to think about Cassidy and felt that she probably sent her brother the snow because she alway's loved for it to snow. He remind's me so much of Cassidy these day's. Some of the thing's he does and say's is just like her.Sometime's my heart just stops and I have to catch my breath because they are so much alike. Don't get me wrong I actually enjoy it because in other way's Cade is completely opposite than her because he is definatly all boy. He has deceided to play baseball this year and even though they havn't started any games yet I can already tell it's going to keep us really busy. We had planned on going to the beach the second weekend of spring break and that also is easter weekend but Cade has his first jamboree game that weekend and he doesn't want to miss his game and I really don't want him to either. I just wanted to get out of town that weekend because it is also the second anniversary of the day Cassidy moved to heaven. I cannot believe it has been two year's sometime's it feel's as if it was just yesterday and other time's it feel's like it has been a long time. I just keep praying and hoping they find a cure because no child should ever have to face cancer and no parent's should ever have to experience the pain of watching their children suffer or the pain of having to visit their child at the cementary. I found out this week that another one of Cassidy's friend's moved to heaven. So please keep Barbara's family in your prayer's because I know they have a long hard journey ahead of them.
I will try to do better updating it is just really hard sometimes to find the right word's to update and this time of year seem's to be the hardest because I have all these dates in mind of thing's that happenend and without ever having to look at a calender I know what day it is. We do have our good day's also. It's just the time of the year it is. Please keep praying for the families that are having to battle daily and that soon we will find a cure.

Cassidy, I miss you so much and I cannot believe it has been two year's since I got to hold you in my arm's and kiss you sweet face. I miss your crinkled little nose and your sweet laugh. I cannot wait until the day when we all can be together again. Thank's for the snow and all the wonderful memories it brought to mind. I LOVE AND MISS YOU! Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, January 28, 2008 6:59 PM CST

I am so sorry it has taken me so long to update this time but I actually did try but I hit the wrong key and
lost it some how and just didn't have time to rewrite it. Cade has been keeping me really busy,he got his four wheeler for christmas and we stay outside until it is too dark and then by the time we come in and get supper and a bath it is his bed time. I don't know what changed but for some reason he now thinks I need to lay down with him and if I do that I usually fall asleep too.
I think we all did as best as we could through the holiday's but it sure wasn't any easier. It's funny how you can be going along and something can trigger it and you feel like you are having to go through it all again. This month has been exceptionally hard for me. I don't know if it's because we went into the hospital for the second transplant on Jan. 23rd or if I know the transplant day is coming up on Feb. 1st but things just haven't been going as easily as I think they should. I know alot of people only have to deal with the holiday's,birthday's and death date but when you have a child with cancer you remember all the dates thing's happen on.Sometimes I think that makes it harder. I wish that no parent's would ever have to face losing a child but espeaially to losing one to cancer.
Cade is running in the mercedes marathon (for children's hospital on Feb. 10th and I am running in the one for kids one transport the same day. I hope with enough research money that childhood cancer will be a thing of the past. Keep praying that one day we will find a cure and for all the kids and families having to face it now.
I got to see Pierson Estes last week (his mom brought him to see me) and was really good seeing him doing so well and getting to just be a kid again.It is alway's good seeing a child being a cancer survivior. I hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. Sean,Suzie,Cade and Angel Cassidy

Cassidy, I hope you got a big hug hug and kiss from Aunt Cordelia from me and I hope she tells you how much we all miss you. Cade has really been talking about you alot lately and he even left you a special present from him in your valentine box here at the house. I told him you can always be with him in his heart even when he is at school and I can't be with him. Valentine's day is coming up and I can still see you making all your cards. I keep the one you made for me in my bible. So I can see it everytime I read my bible. Please keep an eye on us. We miss you more everyday. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, December 24, 2007 1:25 PM CST

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Thing's have been so crazy around here I haven't been able to sit down and update the website but I still continue to check it. It's just hard to update with Cade around. He is so excited that today is christmas eve he has been waiting and waiting on Christmas to get here. I don't know how we will get him to bed (sleep) tonight. Personally I am ready for January to get here. I wish we could go from Sept. to Jan. because the holiday's are just so hard. When I am out trying to shop I find myself looking at stuff Cassidy would like and wishing she was still here. I can't believe it's been 19 month's since she moved to heaven. Some day's feel like it has been an eternity since I got to hold her and other day's it seem's like it was just yesterday. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the fundraiser I had at work, for those of you who don't know we collected toy's to take to children's hospital for all the kid's that are having to spend it in the hospital. Before Cassidy got sick it was something I never thought about kid's being in the hospital at christmas. We also took the money we would have spent on cassidy and bought toy's ourself to go to the hospital. Everyone was so wonderful to us when we were in the hospital I just would like to give something back. I took them to Thursday and while we were there Cade wanted to go to build a bear and ride the carousel at the galleria and when ran into one of our sweet nurses and it was really good to see her and talk with her. I hope everyone has a wonderful christmas and get's to spend alot of time with your families because we don't know what the next year will bring and don't forget the real meaning of christmas. Sean, Suzie and Cade

Cassidy, I can't believe I am having to spend another christmas without you but I know you are in the best place you can be for christmas. I can't even imagine how big of a birthday party you will at tonight. I miss you so much it hurt's sometimes but I know God blessed you when you moved to heaven because you are out of pain and not having to worry about all the test and red medicine you were having to endure but it sure is lonely without you. Watch over all of us tonight and tomorrow because it sure is hard without you. Cade said if you see santa tonight tell him he want's a real four wheeler. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade
P.S. Weasel and Gizmo said to tell you Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:39 PM CST

I just wanted to do a quick update and let everyone know we are still taking things one day at a time, sometimes it seems more like one minute at a time. Cade is still doing good and he keeps us really busy. He is all excited about Christmas and can't wait until Santa comes. It's fun to watch how excited he is. I have got so many mixed emotions during this time of year and sometimes I feel like I am cheating him a little bit because Christmas used to be my favorite time of the year and I did so much with Cassidy that it was her favorite also but now I almost dread seeing Halloween coming because I know all the holiday's are coming right behind it. I am trying really hard to make it as exciting for him but my heart just is not into it. I am very thankful though for the time God let me have her and I know this may sound funny but if she hadn't gotten sick I probably wouldn't have spent as much time with her because I would have been busy working and taking things for granted. If there is one thing I have learned trough all this is to not take things for granted so this Thanksgiving I encourage you to spend extra time with your kids and give them extra hugs because there are no garuratees what tomorrow will bring. Please continue to pray for all the children who are still having to battle this awful disease and also for there families because cancer effect's everyone in the family not just the ones who have it.

Cassidy, I miss seeing your smiling face and the way you could crinkle your nose. I miss all the pictures you alway's made for me but I am very thankful for all the time I got to spend with you and look forward to the day when I can hold you in my arms again and give you kisses.
I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving in heaven and thank you so much for picking me to be your momma.
Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:31 PM CDT

First I want to apolgize for not updating before now but sometimes I sit down and try and it is just to hard. We have been staying really busy. It sometimes hard to find an extra minute in the day but most of the time that is what I like. It so much easier to work until you are so tired you just fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow. Cade turned five on the October 4th. He just wanted to have a pool party so that is what he had. The water is a little to cold for me but you know how kids are it is never to cold for them. We ended up with 14 kids here swimming and playing in our back yard and Cade enjoyed every minute of it.I let him have one friend spend the night on his actual birthday. His birthday fell right with fall break so we went to the beach for a few days.Three of my friend and six kids. They had a blast. We let the kids pick out everything we did so it would be all about them. Now All the momma's are ready to go back for a relaxing trip. HA-HA!

Cassidy, I hope you caught all the balloons Cade and our the friends sent you on Cade's birthday. He will not ever keep balloons now they all have to go to you. Mrs. Fulmer gave Cade one of your t-shirt's that was left in her classroom. She thought he might like to have it since it had been yours but I can't get him to wear it. He said it is yours and wants to send it to you on a balloon. We went to the bonfire for homecoming and when it started smoking he told his daddy that God was going to be mad because all that smoke was going to get in Gods eyes.Well I just want you to know that we miss you more and more each day. I don't know who said it would get easier with time but they were very wrong. Forever Missing and Loving YOU! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, September 17, 2007 4:56 PM CDT

Just wanted to update and let everyone know we are making it. Believe it or not it still is hard some days. I guess with everything we went through in the 18 months we battle or rather Cassidy did there are alot of dates that hold alot of memories. Like her different surgeries,her good days as well as her bad days. More dates then just the day she moved to heaven and you will get up and be going along then it hits you what day it is and your world starts to crumble again. I wouldn't take anything in the world for all the memories I have but sometimes it is just harder than others.
Cade is doing great in school and seems to be enjoying it alot more this year. The only thing he does not like is extended day and somedays it's just impossible to get him when school let's out so it is something I hope get's better in time. He still is enjoying cutting the grass but doesn't get to go with his daddy as much now that school has started. He is next door now helping Mr.Wayne cut his grass. I am sure Mr. Wayne can't wait until Cade is big enough just to cut the grass for him.
I do have one very special prayer request today. Please pray for the Long's there son Andrew Long had to return to the hospital yesterday because of a seizure. They already had to call hospice in for him at home but he just got to bad last night that they had to rush him back and that was the one request Andrew had ask is for them not to make him go back to the hospital. His health is declining fast so please just pray for him and his family.

Cassidy, We miss you so much but I hope you are having a great time in heaven. Forever Missing and loving You! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:43 PM CDT

I wanted to let everyone know that we finally did recieve Cassidy's headstone placed. It is not exactly what we wanted but hopefully they can fix it at the cemetary. I just happy to annouce that it has finally arrived. Of course everyone should know how our luck goes by now and the first time they mowed they scratched her footstone but they were very nice and called to let me know what had happened and that even though they will have to take the footmarker out to fix it they are going to fix it.
I am updating tonight because there are alot of children and their families that need our prayer's tonight and over the next few weeks. These were are friends and supporter's while we were at they hospital with Cassidy. Andrew Long is having a really tough time and his family had to make one of the hardest decisions of there lives and that was to call hospice in to help them make Andrews trip home to heaven as peaceful as possible. Also Madison Beck's family is having to face a possible relapse and she is having a bone marrow biopsy tomorrow and for those who never have faced this demon the waiting is the worst part. That being in limbo is awful. At least when you know, you at least know what your facing. Pierson Estes is going through his 4th transplant and his family is having to wait to see if he engraphs and hoping and praying that everything will be ok. I am sure there are alot of other families riding on this emotional rollercoaster's so please pray for them also. These three families are just ones that we had gotten really close to during our trails and tribulation's

Cassidy, I hope you like your stone with your name on it. I know that was your biggest concern when MaMaw moved to heaven. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, August 6, 2007 9:54 PM CDT

Cassidy, You sure have been on my mind alot lately. I am not sure if it is because they are finally going to put your headstone up at the cementary this week,you know how much trouble we have had getting it here. Maybe it's because school is about to start and I wish I was able to get both of you ready for school. When I go shopping I still feel like I need to buy you clothes,shoes,and school supplies. I wish you were here in person to help Cade start at your big school but I know you can be there in his heart,so please watch out for him. I hope he likes school better this year because last year he did not enjoy it. I hope you can help him be calm most of the time because you know how wild he can be. I just want you to know there is not a day that goes by that you are not missed. I love you so much! I can't wait until I can get to heaven and hold you in my arms again. I'll have you in one arm and Cade in the other and we will never have to be seperated again. Forever missing and loving you!!!
Mommy,Daddy&Cade

Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:57 PM CDT

First of all I want to tell everyone I am sorry that it has taken me so long to update but we have been staying really busy. we have been to the beach a good bit and last week was busy with vacation bible school and having my niece and nephew were here for the week for vacation bible school and we spent alot of time at the pool and we even made it to the water park one day. It was great getting to spend some time with them and Cade loved having someone to play with him. Some times I forget how much he misses having someone to play with, he had a really hard time right after Cassidy moved to heaven but then he started doing good by himself but having other kids around all the time I could tell how much he misses having someone else to play with besides me all the time. We hope everyone is having a good summer. I can't believe it is almost over. Please continue to pray for a cure for childhood cancer and please say some extra special prayers for our friends Andrew Long and Pierson Estes. They both have been having a really rough time latley. Thanks so much for continuing to check on us even though I haven't been updating as much I still check the website almost daily so habits I just can't seem to let go of.
Cassidy, I continue to think of you daily and You can't even imagine how much we miss you. It's like I was telling someone the other day it hurts not because I don't know that you are ok I know you are doing great but because I am left here without you and I miss you so much. I helped with bible school again this year because I know how much you loved it and I want Cade to enjoy it as much as you did and I think he does. It is so hard to do without you there though but I tried really hard not to let it show but sometimes when they sing your favorite songs its all I can do to not cry in front of them. Cade learned one of your favorites this year and was singing it at the top of his lungs one night as he was getting ready for bed and I had to stop and sit down for just a minute because he sounded just like you so I bet you were with him when he learned it. Megan was talking about Jesus with me the other day and she said something like you and I felt like you must have been in her class with her also. I know you are always with us and are always watching out for us so I just want you to know how much we miss and love you and we cannnot wait until the day we can all be together again.
Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and cade

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:37 PM CDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CASSIDY,HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Cassidy we went out to your resting place today and fixed it all up for your birthday. I think you would really like it. We even got a big birthday balloon that sings Happy Birthday to you. Memaw got you a balloon with a frog,snail and turtle on it. Of course while we were there Cade had to find the water hose to water the grass. He said he needs to water the grass so it will grow and he can cut it. We left for the beach tonight because we just couldn't face your birthday at home without you and we know how much you loved the beach and being here is next best thing to a birthday party. We still will be sendin you some birthday balloons it will just be comin from the beach instead of home. Tomorrow we will be celebrating your life and all our wonderful memories we shared in our six short years together. I am so thankful God let us spend that time with you and that we will all get to spend eternity together. I hope you and all your friends in heaven have a wonderful day tomorrow and I hope you etto have a great big birthday party just the way you like it. don;t eat too much cake and icecream. Forever missing and lovin you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:40 PM CDT

Cassidy, I cannot beleave another month has gone by without you. We should be planning birthday party but instead I am just sitting here remembering all the good times we had together. We sure did have alot of good times didn't we, God even blessed us when you were sick because I was able to take off work to take care of you. Cade and I gave Gizmo and weasel a bath tonight you should have seen us we all were soaking wet by the time we were done. Cade is swimming so good this year you would be so proud of him he is not scared of the water at all now. Of course he keeps me and daddy on our toes, he still loves lawn mowers,weedeaters and leaf blowers. I think he must dream about them because he goes to bed talking about yard work and he gets up talking about yard work. Guess what he wants to do now, he has decieded that he wants to shave his hair off and be bald headed because he thinks if he does that he won't have to wash his hair anymore. Does that sound like you or what? I just wanted to give you a quick update on us and to let you know how much we miss you.
Missing and loving you forever! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:26 PM CDT

Cassidy, From the day I found out I was expecting you to the day you moved to heaven. You have always made me the proudest momma in the world. Thanks for all the wonderful memories. You will always be in my heart. IForever loving and missing you! Mommy

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:32 PM CDT

I am so sorry about not updating for awhile but to be really honest I have been having a really tough time lately. As most of you know we have had alot of 1 year anniversaries and I just couldn't bring myself to write about it. Sometimes things seem to be going along great and then we you least expect it everything comes rushing back and you just want to withdraw from the world and keep to yourself and I guess that is what I have been doing. It's hard to explain and I hope most of you never have to experience it. We did have a pretty good Easter we made an unexpected trip to my brother's house and Cade got to find eggs with Megan and Bradon and really enjoyed that. Easter has alway's been one of my favorite holiday's and I guess it still is but now it's even more about the real reason for Easter because now I feel like I know how God felt to lose his son but I am so glad so glad he made that sacrafice for us because now I will be able to spend eternity with Cassidy. Cade has been staying really busy cutting grass,weed eating and leaf blowing. He is so glad that the grass is growing again of course he wants to do it everyday and drives his daddy crazy about it. I think its going to be a long summer for Sean.
Cassidy, We think about you all the time and the holiday's just aren't the same without you but we just have to be patient because we all know we have to follow God's divine plan. He knows the whole plan and I don't but
I do know that I want to spend eternity with you so that we won't ever have to be apart again. I love and miss you very much.
FOREVER MISSING AND LOVING YOU! Daddy,Mommy&Cade

Monday, March 19, 2007 7:54 PM CDT

I wanted to go ahead and update. I am not sure that I will be able to later in the week. This month has already been hard and I cannot help but to think about all the things we were going through at this time last year. If you would have told me at this time last year how things would turn out. I probably would have been very mad at you because I just wasn't ready to let her go and even when I knew her little body was just too tired to keep fighting I still wasn't ready to let her go and today I am still not ready to let her go but with everything we have been through this year. It is all the love and support we have recieved from family,friends and even complete strangers that has kept us going. The power of prayer is really amazing because I know it is all the prayers from ya'll that has given us the strength to continue on. I also have the peace of knowing that Cassidy is in heaven and that her body is now whole and completly well. I can just imagine her playing with all the animals and all the other children in heaven. I am also sure that her Poppy and Mamaw are keeping her spoiled as well. I know that we will never get over this but with all your love and support and with the help of Cade. We will be able to continue living until we all meet again. I hope most of you never have to experience anything like this but please know that all your e-mails and prayers are truely a blessing to our family and we will never be able to thank you enough.
Cassidy, I have been thinking of you so much lately but it's not like there is ever a day that goes by that I don't think of you. I remember your last prayer request was about weasel not forgetting you and I am sure she wishes it was you here because you never chased her like Cade does even though I know she loves him too because when she sleepy she climbs up and his lap to go to sleep. I remember how everytime I left the hospital you always told me how much you missed me while I was gone and I want you to know that I miss you 100 times more than that.I miss the way we watched tv together and the way you always like to lay in my lap but most of all I miss all your kisses and hugs and when it's my time to come and see you I promise you all the hugs and kisses you can stand. Cade made me take him to the cementary today so he could mow, weedeat and leaf blow so that your resting place would look much better for you.
Forever missing and loving you! Daddy.Mommy and Cade

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:47 PM CDT

Sorry it has taken me so long to update but I have been extremly busy with work. Everyone was trying to get tan for springbreak. This week I have been trying to get everything cleaned up and ready for when they all get back from springbreak. I have also been talking with the guy who is suposed to be making Cassidy's headstone and footstone almost daily now because I wanted them to have it placed by March 24th but I can't seem to be getting through to him on how important this is to me. He has had the order since the first of July and at that time he told me it would take 3 or 4 months but it is not placed yet. I am going to continue calling daily until it is placed but I do want it to be right.
I wish I could tell everyone things were going reat but it seems like this month has been extermely hard I just can't seem to get all of these dates out of my mind. I can tell you everything that was happening at this last year one of these days I hope to only remember all the good things. It was really good seeing everyone at the memorial service and the service was really nice but it was alot harder than I expected it to be but I am so glad that they do that for the parents. It was so good to see Billy and Emily and we enjoyed eating with them and Brenda at our favorite restraunt Jim and Nicks. We ate there with them several times last year while Kadin and Cassidy were in ICU. I wish Kadin and Cassidy could have been there with us enjoying a good meal but I guess it was just not meant to be. I do have one prayer request at this time a friend of mine son has found out that their son has cancer a few months ago but he is now going through stem cell and he actually has to have 4 transplants with his first being on
Friday. Please keep him and his family in your prayers. his website is www.carinbridge.org/visit/piersonestes
Cassidy,I wish you were still here with me. I wish I could hold you and kiss you again but I guess Poppy and Mamaw will have to do that for me until it is my turn to come and see you. I will never forget how brave and strong you were through this whole ordeal. Cade wanted me to tell you that he is going to go to the cementary and cut the grass for you.Forever missing and loving you! Daddy,Mommy and Cade

Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:42 PM CST

We are still hanging in there. We have hit our busy season at work so I have been staying really busy. Which is good I missed the springbreak rush last year with everything going on so it is a nice change for me. I like being busy. Cade is ready for summer he keeps asking me when can we start swimming in our pool and when can we go to the beach and the water park. I know he is mine when he ask about summer time because summer is my favorite time too. We haven't had that much cold weather but it has been too cold for me. I enjoy warm weather best. I wrote last week about Christie trying to get a double lung transplant. Well it was a perfect match and they had her right outside of the operating room doors when the doctor came up and told her that their was a problem with the right lung of the donor and since she needed both she would not be getting them. She was very dissappointed but I am glad the surgeon was very thourgh and didn't give her a bad lung. She said their was someone else there and he did recieve the left lung since he only needed the left lung. So she is back to waiting. We will be attending a memorial service Saturday at Children's for Cassidy. Hopefully we will get to see alot of our nurses and doctor's. We will also get to see Billy and Emily Gazzaway and that will be nice since we haven't seen them since before Christmas. Please keep praying for a cure and for all the brave children and their families still battling this awful disease.
Cassidy, I canot believe it has been 11 months since I got to hold you,hug you and kiss you. Everyone keeps telling me that things will get easier in time but the longer it is the more I miss you and the harder it gets. The only peace that I have is that I know that you are in heaven and that Jesus is holding you for me. I keep hearing of so many children earning their angel wings. I know that you are having a great time with all your new friends. I don't understand why so many children have to move to heaven before their mommy's and daddy's but Jesus did say let the little children come to me. When I get to see you again it really won't matter who got there first all that will matter is that we will get to spend eternity together. I love and miss you so much. Give Poppy a kiss and hug for me.
Missing and loving you forever! mommy,daddy and Cade

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:54 PM CST

I just want to let everyone know how amazing it is to me that after all this time has passed how many people are still checking on us. I know that is what helps keeps us going everyday even though I do not update as often as I should I am still like most of you I check the website everyday. I have been having a very rough time latley I guess so many anniversaries are coming up. I wouldn't take anything for the memories but I just can't get all the dates out of my mind. Last year on valentines day Cassidy begin having siezures(sp?) and we spent the day having test run trying to find the cause of these. I hope one day these dates won't bring such heartache. I remember Cassidy never even got to open her valentines presents that people had sent her. I left alot of those gifts at the hospital for the other children when we left so I know that they recieved good homes.
I do have one prayer reguest for everyone tonight. One of the girls that works for me. Her name is Christie has been on the transplant list for a double lung transplant and was called out a little while ago to come to the hospital for a possible for a possible match. Please pray that this will be a perfect match and that everything will go as smooth as possible for her. She told me she has to be at the hospital at 10:00 but probably wouldn't know if it was a match until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. So I will try to update if this is a match for her so that everyone can add her to their prayer request list.
Cassidy, I hope you get to enjoy your valentines day this year and make sure to watch out for the balloons Cade and I got you. You know we will be sending you some tomorrow. I love and miss you so much.
Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and the wild man Cade

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:49 PM CST

I am just sitting here tonight thinking about how in 15 minutes it will be one year ago since Cassidy's 2nd transplant. That was the last time her and Cade really got to play together and they had the best time. You could hear them all over the stem cell clinic laughing and having a good time. I would do anything if I could hear and see them playing together again. So much has changed in one year it sometimes is just to much to deal with. I miss her so much and I just don't know how I am ever going to get past it. I keep going because of Cade. He keeps me laughing and keeps me busy. Like I said before he is 100% boy. He is so funny, he heard the weatherman talking about snow so he thinks there will be snow on the ground in the morning. I hope he gets to see some but I am afraid he is going to very disappointed. Well I better go to bed soon or tomorrow will be a very long day.
Cassidy, I miss you so much and I wish I could just see you laughing and crinkling your nose up the way you always did. If I could just hold you and hug you again. I would even get you any flavor popsicle drink you wanted and as much ice as you wanted. I know that you are in a wonderful place and everything is great but it is just hard on us because we got left behind but I promise you one thing I am going to try my best to live the rest of my life the way I should so that one day I will get to spend eternity with you. I love and miss you always and forever.
Forever missing and loving you! Daddy, Mommy, and Cade

Monday, January 22, 2007 8:45 PM CST

I am sorry once again for taking so long to update but work has been keeping me really busy but that is a good thing.I am so thankful that I still have a business with as much as I had to take off the past two years. As I update tonight I am full of different emotions because one year ago I was packing us up to go into the hospital on January 23rd. There are so many things I wish we could have done differently now looking back but I know I cannot dwell on the past. I can only look toward the future. No one is promised a tomorrow so we only have to live each day to its fullest. Spend time with your family and let them know everyday just how much you love them. As far as Cade is concerned he is doing really well. He is 110% boy always busy and active. There is never a dull moment with him around. Thanks again for all your e-mails(words of encouragment) and all your prayers. That is what gets us through each day. Even though I haven't been updating as often we still check her website daily.
Cassidy Lea, I cannot beleave it has been a year since we left to go in the hospital. We thought you would only be in for about 3 weeks but things didn't turn out the way we had thought they would. I wish we could have spent more time together but I am thankful for the time God allowed me to have you. One Lady told me if you could have grief or nothing which one would you pick. She was right I would pick grief because I enjoyed all the time I got to spend with you the good and the bad and the good always outweighed the bad. I just want you to know that I love and miss you very much and I am always thinking about you.
Forever missing and loving you! Daddy,Mommy and Cade

Saturday, January 6, 2007 6:01 PM CST

I hope everyone had a great New Years! I have always loved the holidays but this year I could not wait for the holidays to get over with and now I am so glad they are behind us. I know from last year that there are no gaurantees about our tomorrows and we should nevere take things for granted but for just this once I feel relieved that we have made it through and now we can just go back to living just one day at a time. Cade had a really good time through the holiday's and that helped us the most. He missed going back to school this week because he got the stomach bug but thankfully it lasted only one day and today he is back to bouncing off the walls. So hopefuly by Monday he will be able to go back to school and we can all get back into our routines. Going to school,work,home,etc. I pray that this will be the year they find a cure for cancer and I pray for all the families who are having to battle this horrible disease that this will be the year that they beat it. Thanks so much for all the prayers and e-mails you send our way because that is what helps us to get through our days and nights.
Cassidy, I just want you to know that Cade was really worried that you might get burned from the fireworks the other night but we explained to him that you had the best seat in the house and would just be able to see them better than all of us. You know he chicken out this year without you with him and watched them from inside the house through the window. He said that way he could see them without it hurting his ears. I miss you more as each day passes and I will always love you. Forever missing and loving you! Daddy,Mommy and Cade

Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:45 PM CST

We wanted to update before all the holiday stuff starts this weekend to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. My wish for everyone is to spend all the time you can with your children and let them know just how much you love them. Please say some extra prayer's for all the families who's children moved to heaven before them. We know they will be at the biggest and best birthday party ever but all the parent's need all the support they can get. Please say extra prayer's for all the children who are having to spend christmas in the hospitals and for thier families. Sometimes with all the hustle and bustle of christmas we forget what the true meaning of christmas is. So if you will just take a minute out of your time to remember. Thank you so much for continuing to check on us and keeping us in your prayers. You will never know just how much all the e-mails mean to us.
Cassidy, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas! You are my insipiration. I love you! Forever missing and loving you! Daddy,Mommy&Cade

Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:46 PM CST

First of all I am sorry it has taken me so long to update but sometimes it's just easier to not write than to have to write about how hard things have been. I know I will be glad when all the holiday's are over. I hate feeling like that but from Halloween to Christmas was Cassidy's favorite time of the year and it has just been really hard on us here lately but we are hanging in there the best we can. We have been staying really busy with Cade. We went to the Mcwain Center last week to play and Watch the Polar Express at the Imax. We really enjoyed that. The Polar Express was the first movie I ever took cade to and I think he was just as amazed with it this time as he was the first time. Then we went to the Galleria to ride on the Carousel and to see Santa afterwards. He also went to build a bear while we were there so we had a very busy day.It seems like we have had something going on everyday but I guess that is o.k. but I still haven't manage to do any Christmas shopping so I guess I am going to havw to get busy this weekend. All Cade wants for Christmas is a real 4-wheeler and a real leaf blower. I keep trying to tell him he is still too little for those things but he insist's that is what Santa is bringing him and that is all he want's. No one else has to get him anything. Well please keep praying for a cure and remember all of the children who are having to spend the holiday's at the hospital. Please say some extra prayers for them.
Cassidy, I can't even imagine how wonderful everything is in Heaven right now. I know you and all the other kids are having a wonderful time getting ready to celebrate Jesus's birthday. Please remember that we are forever missing and loving you. Mommy,Daddy,Cade, Weasel and Gizmo

Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:44 PM CST

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving. We survived our first Thanksgiving but I cannot tell you it was easy. I just keep trying to take it one day at a time but sometimes it just seems like to much to bear and when I have to write that things have been really tough I feel like I am letting people down but we are hanging tough and we will get through the holidays with the help of Cade and all our family and friends.
Cassidy, We have been missing you alot lately but I know you are having a wonderful time in Heaven. You would be so proud of your Aunt Bev, she came over thanksgiving afternoon and put up our Christmas tree. I am so glad that she did because mommy was having a really hard time trying to do it without you this year. I just want you to know that I am so proud of you and that you will always have a special place in my heart. Forever missing and loving you! Daddy,Mommy and Cade

Monday, November 20, 2006 5:42 PM CST

Well I just wanted to let everyone know we are still hanging in. We are just still trying to take things one day at a time. Some days it seems to be one hour at a time. I have been trying really hard to ignore the fact that the holiday's are fast approaching but I guess I can not ignore it any more. I think we are going to try and keep Thanksgiving pretty low key. My favorite Cassidy Thanksgiving memories are of her telling me she would go to whoever's house we were going to Thanksgiving as long as I promised her that I wouldn't make her eat. Last year we stayed at home and had it at our house because her count's weren't high enough for her to be around alot of people. Well I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and remeber to spend time with your families because that is what we truley have to be thankful for.
Cassidy, I miss you so much and I will always love you. You will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving and now you really won't have to worry about someone making you eat thing's that you don't want to eat.
Forever missing and loving you!
Daddy, Mommy and Cade

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 10:00 PM CST

I am sorry I haven't updated in awhile but as most of you can probably imagine we have had some tough day's but we are still making it. It seems like the longer Cassidy is gone the more I miss her. I will never understand why this happenend but I just have to trust that God had a better plan and one day I will know what it is. Until that day, I just have to live my life the way God want's me too. Cade had a great Halloween and yes he got to be a tractor. It turned out really great. I will try and post a picture when I get them back. Thanks so much for continuing to check on us. As I have said before you will never know just how much all your e-mails help us to get through our day's and night's.
Cassidy I miss you more and more every day!I hope you got to go trick or treating in Heaven. Forever missing and loving you! Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, October 23, 2006 9:28 PM CDT

First of all I want to thank the Long's and the Howell's for the great benefit"Knockin cancer out of the park" It was really great. They put alot of work into it and it really showed.I want to thank them for including Cade. He got to throw a ball out in memory of Cassidy and that meant alot to me. It was so great seeing alot of the people we got to know so well the past 19 month's. The hand and paws dog's were there and it was really nice seeing them again. Cassidy did love all the dog's.
I have been having some rough day's lately and as I was checking on some of the kids I check on all the time. I came across this poem and I feel like I was suposed to see this today because it remind's me so much of Cassidy and how she was and also alot of the other kid's I know who have to fight this battle.

MY PURPOSE
I have cancer. There isn't any an explanation as to why I became sick. All I know is God has a plan for each of us,and for each plan there is a purpose.Some of us know what our purpose in life is and others will never find it. Then there are those like me who accomplish it without ever realizing it.
My journey with cancer will not and has not been without purpose. It is through my illness that I have helped doctors understand this disease a little more so they may find a cure. It is through my illness that I have opened the eyes of those around me to how precious life really is.Something we all too often take for granted.
It is through my illness that some of those around me have realized that life is too short to be afraid of our feelings.My cancer has been beaten back by the power of love.It is the most powerful of emotions,one not to be afraid of,but to be embraced. To be loved by someone unconditionally and completely is to reach into your soul and feel warmth.
It is through my illness that I have shown there is no quarantee for the future--only dreams for it.whether the future is just another day or another 75 years,we should all dream big and live fully everyday.
It is through my illness that some of us who haven't talked to God in awhile have once again begun to pray.
It is through my illness that I have joined the hands of those familer to those of strangers to form one long chain. I have already so much in such a short time,and Each day I continue to touch the hearts of many.
THAT IS MY PURPOSE

Forever missing and loving you Cassidy!
Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Monday, October 16, 2006 6:13 PM CDT

I am sorry I haven't updated in awhile but we are all doing o.k.Cade and I both had really good birthday's. Cade had a great party and he said he had a good time. I had a good birthday also. It was different without Cassidy. She loved birthday's and everyone had to a party(cake,ice cream and balloons)but I have some really great friends and family who kept me busy and took me out to eat. Thank you! We have been trying to find Cade a halloween costume. He has decided he wants to be a tractor and of course the magazine he saw it in has already sold out of it and will not be getting anymore. Hopefully we will be able to find one or have one made before halloween.
I hope everyone has a great week and remember to keep praying for a cure.
Forever missing and loving you Cassidy!
Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Tuesday, October 3, 2006 8:07 PM CDT

We are all doing o.k. We are just getting ready for Cade's birthday tomorrow. He is so excited. He is taking pizza and cupcakes for school tomorrow. He has already started asking if he can leave school early since it's his birthday. We are just going to have cake and ice cream tomorrow night to celebrate and his party will be Sunday. He has never really had a big birthday party so he is really excited about it. He has already gotten one of his presents today. Our very sweet neighbors Mr.Wayne and Mrs. Brenda gave him a bicycle and of course he loved it. We had to stay outside a little longer tonight so he could try and ride it. Well we just wanted to wish Cade a Happy Birthday! Cassidy we will be sending you some of Cade's birthday balloons tomorrow. We sure are missing you! I also wanted to ask you to say a special prayer for Cassidy's friend Molly. Her website is listed under our links. She also has Medullablastoma when Cassidy did. She has beeen in remission for a while but is now showing some signs of a tumor again. They have moved her MRI up to October 18th. Please pray that they do not see any signs of a tumor again.
Forever missing and loving you Cassidy!
Sean, Suzie and Cade

Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:25 PM CDT

I am sorry I haven't updated sooner but there just hasn't been alot to tell and I felt like the statitics I posted on childhood cancer really needed to be left up a little longer. I hope one day there will be no childhood cancer and no families will ever have to experience it. We have all been doing o.k. Just taking things one day at a time and trying to stay really busy which isn't to hard. I would like to make a couple of prayer request one is for Scarlett she has been feeling a little tired because her count's have been really low. Please pray that they continue to come up and that she starts feeling better really soon and the other is for William Way's family he earned his angel wings this past Sunday. and I know his family could use a little extra prayer's right now. Thanks so much for continuing to check on us and for all the prayer's you have sent our way.
Forever missing and loving you Cassidy!
Sean,Suzie&Cade

Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:05 PM CDT

This week has been a pretty tough week. First we went to Kandles for Kids on Sunday. It was very special but it is was pretty hard hearing Cassidy's name called with all the other kids who have earned thier angel this year even though I went for that reason. It was also sad at all the names that were called that I reconized. A cancer survior was also there and she gave a wonderful testimony. I hope one day they find a cure that will not hurt these kids so bad. If you haven't ever met any children with cancer I would encourage you to do so. They are the most wonderful and loving children and the toughest people you will ever meet. They take their treatments like warriors and still manage just to be like all the other kids and alot of the younger children have know idea that they are sick or any different from their friends. We also attended the Charter charity golf tournament for Curing childhood cancer it was put on by charter and The Janie Sims Foundation. Dan Sims and all the others did a wonderful job. Dan Sims is a wonderful speaker and he has a great passion for trying to help raise money for Childhood Cancer. He also lost his daughter to Cancer. There are so many families that have been touched by cancer if if we all work together maybe one day we can make a difference.
We did get to see Billy and Emily on Sunday and it was wonderful getting to see them again. They are very special to us. At the golf tournament I got to spend the day with Scarlett and her Mom(Lana) and her brother J.D. It was great seeing them also. Cassidy never got to see Scarlett outside of the hospital but she loved scarlett so much and talked about her all the time. They loved doing arts and crafts together. Scarlett looks great but like her mom and I talked about you always have that fear that at any minute things could change at the drop of a hat and your world be turned upside down once more. If she can stay on track she should finish her treatment in March 2007. Please continue to keep her in your prayers.
I wanted to end this entry with some shocking facts that I discovered this week and remember the fight against childhood cancer continues. Please continue to be active and get involved with organizations that assist families of children battling this terrible disease.
* Each school day,46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
*One in 330 children will develop cancer by the age of 20.
*Although the 5 year survival rate is steadily increasing,one quarter of children will die 5 years from the time of diagnosis.
*Cancer remains the number one disease killer of Americas children-more than Cystic Fibrosis,muscular dystrophy,asthma and Aids combined.
Forever Missing You and Loving You Cassidy!
Sean,Suzie and Cade

Thursday, September 7, 2006 9:47 PM CDT

I just wanted to remind everyone that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Please let everyone you know about this because one day we need to find a cure for this. Besides accidents cancer is the number one reason for children's death. I wanted to let everyone know the Charter Charity classic Golf tournament is September 12 at Greystone Country Club for tournament details go to chartercharityclassic.com. We invite anyone to come and be a part of this great event. There will be a receptionand silent auction after the tournament. Proceeds will benefit the Janie Sims Foundation. Jox radio station will be broadcasting live and there will be some celeberties there also.
Another little boy that went through stem cell with Cassidy and Kadin earned his angel wings this week. Please keep Ethan's family in your prayers. They have really had a tough road.
We have all been doing ok this week just taking it one day at a time and trying to stay busy but the day's are never easy. We will always be missing you Cassidy.
Forever Missing and Loving you Cassidy!
Sean, Suzie & Cade

Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:53 PM CDT

I just wanted to let everyone know that we are still hanging in there. We are just trying to stay really busy that is all we know how to do right now. I am not sure why but it seems like it is getting harder everyday instead of easier. I guess there is just so much going on right now that Cassidy loved it it just reminds me of how much I miss her. As I am sitting here writing Cade has us listening to her favorite blue grass and earlier today we had to put Weasel's Bama collar on that Cassidy got her last year to wear during football season. I am so glad he remember's all the thing's she liked for them to do but sometimes it just hard to continue on like we did before. Cade is sitting here telling me how when he get's out of school tomorrow he has to go and cut grass. He has been going to cut grass with his Daddy on Tuesday and Thursday but he just cannot get enough. I think Cade could sit on that lawn mower everyday and it still would not be enough for him. He just loves it so much. I also wanted to let everyone know that September is childhood cancer awareness month. There will be several fundraiser this month to raise money to continue to help find a cure for this awful disease but most of all please continue to pray for all the children who are having to battle cancer at this time. There is a golf tournament at Greystone September 12th. I will try and post more details next week about it. Also I wanted to ask that you say a special prayer for Bailey's family because Bailey earned his angel wings on Saturday. He was also another one of Cassidy's friend's from Childrens. Thanks so much for continuing to check on us it really means alot.
Forever Missing and loving you Cassidy!
Sean,Suzie and Cade

Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:51 PM CDT

Well we are still just taking it one day at a time. We still have our good day and bad day's and sometimes it can all be mixed into one. I know Cassidy would want us to keep going so we are. She alway's seemed to be happy and her smile could just make your heart melt. Cade can also do that. He is so funny and can come up with the craziest stories. I don't know where he get's his imagination but he sure has one. He can sure keep you laughing. He still loves being outside and that is where we are most day's at until it get's dark outside. I don't know what we will do when the time changes. He has finally wore out his power wheel lawn mower. So now he is counting down the days until his birthday so that he can get another one but I am so proud of him for being able to throw away his favorite toy and trying to wait until his birthday for a new one.
We hope everyone has a good week and please remember to keep praying for a cure for childhood cancer. We found out another child that was going through stem cell when Cassidy was there has earned his angel wings. Please say a special prayer for C.J.'s family.I know that his family is a a very difficult time right now. Thanks for continuing to check on us.
Forever Missing you Cassidy! We love you!
Sean, Suzie and Cade

Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:42 PM CDT

Well this week has been o.k. so far. I had a really long and hard week last week. I guess with school starting and all. Even though I was really happy about Cade starting school it was very hard being excited because it was very hard not being able to get Cassidy ready for school also.I tried really not to let Cade see me upset and to make his first day really great because I know that's how Cassidy would have wanted it. she loved school so much and I know she would want Cade to love it as much as she did. I don't know if cade will ever talk about it as much as she did but that's o.k. as long as he enjoy's it. I really had a good laugh when I picked him up on Friday.For those of you who don't know Cade his favorite thing to do is cut the grass and weed eat with his daddy. Well when he got in the car he went into this long story about how they made him cut the grass, weed eat and weed blow all day and how he needed to go home and take a shower and change his clothes because he had gotten hot and sweaty. I don't know what they really did at school but that is what he said they did. I guess as long as he enjoy's himself that is all that matter's. Well we hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend and remember to keep praying for a cure for childhood cancer. Sean, Suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Cassidy, We miss you more and more everyday and we love you very much!!

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:26 PM CDT

Cade started preschool on Monday. It was a day full of different emotions for me. I was happy and sad but I guess every mother is on the first day of school except it was just a little harder for me this time because Cade is going to the same preschool that Cassidy went too and he is even in the very same classroom that she was in. I guess I didn't realize just how hard that would be but I am very glad that he is at the same school because every one there is wonderful. I am also realizing just how different boys and girls really are. Cassidy would come home from school telling me everything that happend that day and all Cade has said is that he had fun and if I ask him what they did he tells me nothing. The most he has told me is that he ate cookies today and that they didn't get to go to the playground because it started raining. I am really proud at how well he is doing considering he has never been in daycare at all. We have been really lucky because we have had the same great babysitter since Cassidy was just six month's old and Cade has been staying with her since he was just 4 weeks old. He is only going to school part time this year so he will still be seeing Mrs. Shirley some too. We hope everyone has a safe and wonderful week and weekend. Sean, Suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Friday, August 4, 2006 9:10 AM CDT

Well we have almost made it through another week. This week has been kinda busy we have been trying to get everything at work ready for the students to get back in town. We have also been getting Cade's school supplies and trying to get him ready to start preschool on Monday. I can't believe it is time for him to start school. He is not very excited yet. One day he wants to go and the next he say's he just wants to stay at Mrs.Shirley's. I only have him going to school three days a week so he will be at Mrs.Shirley's the other two days. It has been really hard trying to get everything ready for him when I know I should be buying supplies for two and I am not getting to. Cassidy loved going school shopping even last year when we were setting everything up for her to do the home bound program we bought some new things so that she wouldn't feel left out because she loved school and wanted to go with the other kids. I explained that the home bound teacher would come to our house and she would be doing the same work at home that her friends were doing at school so that when she was able to attend to school she wouldn't be behind and she liked that idea. I even think she started liking home bound because in her words "I don't have to get up so early for school." Mrs Rose came at 1:00p.m. Even though she asked me several times when was she going to get to go to school when the kids were there. I was hoping that this would be the year because all her treatment's would behind us. I only hope Cade enjoy's school as much as Cassidy although I know it will be different with him. Please pray for all the kids to have a safe and happy school year as you continue to pray for a "cure for childhood cancer. Sean,Suzie,Cade &^Angel Cassidy^

Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:48 PM CDT

I just wanted to let everyone know Cade's surgery went really well this morning and he is already back to his normal self. He is already outside playing like nothing even happend this morning. He is such a trooper. This morning being at the hospital brought back alot of memories but we made it through it. Sometimes I can't believe that she is really gone but then again there is such a big part of my life is missing. I miss Cassidy more and more each day. It was really great seeing so many of our nurses and child life specialists. Everyone there is great and I can't say enough good things about them. We still have several friends(children in the hospital)there and I ask that you continue to pray for them and all the children in the hospital fighting this terrible disease. I pray that one day no children will ever have to experience cancer. Sean, Suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:16 PM CDT

I just wanted to do a quick update and ask everyone to please say a special prayer for Cade tomorrow he is having some minor surgery at Children's hospital. He has a hernia(sp?) I am sure everything will be just fine and I will update again tomorrow to let everyone know how he did. Thanks for continuing to check on our family. Suzie,Sean Cade and ^angel Cassidy^

Monday, July 17, 2006 11:52 PM CDT

We have been very busy so far this week. We are having vacatiion Bible school at our church this week. For all of you who didn't really know Cassidy going to church was one of her favorite things to do and she loved going to bible school. I will never forget last summer when she found out she was going to miss it how much she cried and how I promised her that she would get to go this year if she would only be patient all her treatment would be over and she would really enjoy it more when she felt better. I guess that was one of the hardest things for us was to see her missing the things she loved the most of course our church family was great and sent her all the crafts and supplies to make the crafts to her in Birmingham so that she wouldn't miss doing them. They also dedicated the whole bible school to her and everyone wore their Cassidy t-shirts. They took lots of pictures of everyone at bible school doing all the activities and made a photo albulm for her. so as you can imagine going to bible school has been a little hard for me this year but I know that is where Cassidy would want me and Cade to be. Well tonight they wanted to do something special for Cassidy so they had all the kids and teachers release balloons for he with a special message on all of them and then they sang one of her favorite songs. It really was very special and we cannot thank you enough for all you have done for our family. Thank you Taylorville Baptist Church for making tonight very special to us. It is something we will always remember. Please continue to pray for all the children who are having to endure cancer and hopefully one day no child will ever have to suffer from cancer again. God bless! Sean, Suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^
Cassidy we love and miss you very much and you will always be in our hearts. You have touch more people in your short lifetime then we will ever be able to in ours.

Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:04 PM CDT

I am sorry I haven't updated before now but we went out of town again. This trip was very unexpected. We helped some friends of ours move to Clearwater Florida. It was a very long trip down there especially since we had 3 kids and one was just an infant(8 weeks old) so you can imagine how many stops we had to make. Since I had already made arrangements to be off work we split up our trip on the way back by stopping in Gulf Shores to see Tommy, Ronda, Lindsey and Aleigh. They had been asking for us to come and stay with them for a few days and we figured we better go ahead and get it in before school starts back. Tomorrow is Sean's birthday. He wanted to have some of our friends and family over to eat and swim. I am sure it will be different having a birthday without Cassidy around because she loved birthdays and parties. I wish she could be here to make him something and to sing Happy Birthday to him but I know she can not but I know she will be able to one day when we all are together again. We hope everyone has a safe and good weekend. Thanks for all of you who continue to check on us. God Bless! Sean, Suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Thursday, July 6, 2006 11:32 PM CDT

Hey! we hope everyone had a good holiday. We stayed at home and went swimming here and shot some fireworks. Cade is really starting to swim good. He is not afraid of the water now at all. He would stay in the pool all day and night if you let him. The only thing he likes better than swimming is riding on the lawn mower and weed eating with daddy.He wants to cut the grass everyday. We are all just taking things one day at a time and missing Cassidy more as each day goes by. I have always heard that it gets easier but I am not finding that to be the case it just seems like I miss her more everyday. We hope everyone has a great weekend and thanks for continuing to check on us. Sean,Suzie,Cade&^Angel Cassidy

Friday, June 30, 2006 0:06 AM CDT

We hope everyone has had a good week. We have just been trying to stay busy. We have been working some and trying to get back to a some what normal life. I don't really know how to do that yet when part of me is missing. I know Cassidy is just fine but it is us who are having a hard time. We don't have any big plans for the 4th yet but I am sure we will be able to stay busy. I know sean will spend most of the weekend cooking. He loves that part of the 4th of July and we all benefit from it. Last year we had to spend it in Birmingham and we went to watch the big fireworks show they have there. I am not sure I will be able to watch a fireworks show this year but I will probably try because that is what Casidy would have wanted to do. She loved fireworks,swimming and grilling out for the 4th and I had told her last year that she would be able to swim this year. I hope they have a big pool in heaven that she can swim in. We hope that everyone has a safe but good 4th of July. Love in Christ! Sean,Suzie,Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Friday, June 23, 2006 8:26 AM CDT

Well as you can probably guess last week was a really hard week for us but we survived it. We tried to spend Cassidy's birthday the way she would have wanted too. We spent it with family and friends. We ate her favorite foods and had birthday cake. Her friends sang her Happy Birthday and blew out the candles for her. They also sent her several balloons some had birthday cards and some had candles with icing on them. Thanks to everyone who helped us get through the day either by cards,e-mails,phone calls, and especially prayers. I know we have many more hard days and weeks ahead of us but for now we can only take things one day at a time. We hope everyone will just spend alot of extra time with your kids this summer and let them know just how much you love them because we just don't know what tomorrow will bring.Hopefully just more great memories. Someone told me last week that if you could have grief or nothing wouldn't you rather have grief. I can honestly say I would rather have had Cassidy for the time God allowed me to have her than to never have had her at all and no one can take away my memories because I do have some wonderful memories. Please continue to pray for all the kids who are still struggling with this horrible disease and for us to one day have a cure for it. I will continue to hope that the cure won't have all the harmful side effects that it has now. Thanks once again for continuing to check on my family. We hope everyone has a great weekend. Sean, suzie, Cade and ^Angel Cassidy^

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:46 AM CDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASSIDY!

Today has always been a day of celebration and happiness. Cassidy loved birthday's and parties and this year I had promised her a great big party because we should have had everything behind us and she should have been able to do anything she wanted. We were only able to have a few of her close friends over and they let us go to the park. For all of you who don't remember they let Cassidy out of the hospital for her birthday last year. Cassidy was happy just being out for her birthday. We were happy because we thought the hospital visit's were behind us. She ended up having to go back in the day after her birthday because of c-diff but they only kept us a couple of day's and we actually stayed out until January 23rd 2006 when they said another transplant was necessary due to her bone marrow never recovering after the first transplant. If you didn't see her blood count's you wouldn't know anything was wrong with her. She was finally back to her old self. This time was supposed to be easy. Who knew an infection could change all that and today instead of a party we would just have our memories to get us through today but we do have some great memories. Cassidy We love you and miss you and we hope you have a great big party in heaven today. Happy Birthday Kakie!
Mommy,Daddy and Cade

Cassidy's Poem for Mommy and Daddy

Please don't be sad Mommy because I had to go,
Gos's angels said they'd stay with you and Daddy down below. I really wanted you both to come with me and I cried a little tear,but god explained that just for now you're really needed here. Jesus came himself to carry me to heaven,and told me I was very brave for not yet being seven. He told me he was very glad I was such a good,good girl,and he had fluffy angel wings for me with little golden swirls. His touch was so gentle;it made my heart glad,but then I looked down and saw you were still sad."Mommy and daddy will be sad for just a little while,and then they'll remember you're with me and once again smile." Then Jesus knelt down and caught up your tears, and placed them in my hand to take away my fears,I saw the tears evaporate and little hearts appear,Then Iheld Jesusears and yelled,Ilove you mommy and daddy really loud so you could hear!Jesus helped me understand that we will never really part,Because we are joined forever in our Fathers heartso until the day you are called to be with us above Please remember me with faith joy and love.

Sunday, June 4, 2006 8:45 PM CDT

First of all I wanted to let everyone know we are all o.k. I know it has been over a week since my last update but we have been out of town again. We went to the beach for Memorial Day and ended up staying a few extra day's. Thanks to some wonderful family member's who have been letting us use their condo. I know most of you probably are wondering why we keep going out of town but to be honest with you we are just having a very hard time being at home. It is just not the same anymore. Cade has really started getting used to the water now and is swimming with his floaties on all over the pool now. We are going to try putting him in swimming lesson's soon so hopefully we can have him swimming without floaties by the end of summer. We got to see Billy and Emily Gazzaway while we were at the beach this time and it was nice getting to talk with them while we could all relax a little bit. Please keep them in your prayer's this week because I am sure this is going to be a very rough week for them because Kadin's Birthday would have been June 7th. Everyone keeps saying the holiday's and birthday's are the roughest. I know right now every day is hard. Well I guess that will be all for now because I have a very tired little boy who need my attention right now. Thanks for continuing to check on us.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:58 PM CDT

I first wanted to thank everyone who attended the fund raiser Wheeling for Hope. It was a hugh success. They are already talking about doing it again next year. I hope that one day no one will have to experience the thing's that we went through. I know most of you don't realize just how strong and brave all the kid's who have or have had cancer really are. Most of them experience more in their short life times than we will are entire life. We have just been trying to stay busy which hasn't been too hard. We went to Chattanooga this past weekend for my niece's birthday party. It was at the zoo so Cade and all the kid's had a really good time. It was fun but hard too. One of cassidy's favorite places was the zoo and then to realize that we will not get to plan anymore birthday parties for Cassidy. We really have been missing her alot lately but we are just taking it one day at a time for now. Cade keep's us really busy. He loves being outside and he want's his daddy to cut the grass everyday. He loves lawn mower's. We are just hoping when he get's old enough to cut the grass he still like's it.(ha-ha!) We hope that everyone has a great memorial day and please continue to pray for all the kid's that are still fighting this horrible disease. God Bless Everyone! The Tierce Family

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:27 PM CDT

Well where do I start? we came down to Panama City to be with Emily and Billy during Kadin's memorial service. We were going to leave already but as most of you have probably read already that Emily's sister moved to heaven exactly one week to the day that Kadin moved to heaven. When Emily called yesterday to tell us the news I was just in shock. I really just didn't know what to say and I still don't. We went over today to spend some time with them and they are doing as well as they can just taking it one moment at a time. Just like us we have learned to go moment by moment because that is all you can do. We miss Cassidy every day but we have found just keeping really busy keeps us going and Cade of course. He has enough energy by himself for us both. He has enjoyed being back at the beach. He still likes the pool the best but he cannot figure out why this hotel doesn't have a hot pool. Please continue to keep the Gazzaway's and us in your prayer's Thanks so much for continuing to check on us. We love all of you! The Tierce Family

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:27 PM CDT

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:10 PM CDT

We just everyone know that wanted to let everyone know we are still hanging in there. It looks like it is going to be another long week because Kadin our dear friend earned his angel wings last night and moved to heaven. We went to be with Billy and Emily today and considering what they have been through they seemed to be doing pretty good.but of course when you go through something like this you just do what you have to do. Please keep them in your prayer's. They need all the support and comfort they can get right now and in the week's to come. It seem's to get harder when everyone else's lives go back to their normal and your's will never be normal again. I bet Cassidy and Kadin are having a great time playing together. I am sure they are running around and enjoying themselves without all the worries from the hospital. It is just hard on us here because we miss them so much but we will all be together again one day. If you have a minute please take the time to sign on their website because alot of you will never know just how much that help's us to get through this tough assignment that God has given us. Thanks again for all the love and support you have shown us. We really do love each and everyone of you. God bless! The Tierce Family

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:04 PM CDT

Well I just wanted to give a quick update on how we are doing. We have been trying to get everything put up and unpacked this week. We had so much going on before we left on our trip with Cade we never did get around to unpacking everything. We had stuff from the apartment and the hospital that we just left in boxes so now we have to find everything a place. Sean and I actually went back to Children's hospital today for the first time since Cassidy moved to heaven to visit with Kadin and his family. Kadin has been having a really tough time the past couple of day's and we wanted to give Billy and Emily some support. They really were there for us during our difficult day's so we wanted to be there for them. There is a prayer vigil for him tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. so where ever you are please stop and say a special prayer for Kadin and his family. I also wanted to mention a fund raiser they are having in Birmingham May 21st from 2:00 to 5:00 at Ross Bridge Golf Resort&Spa. It is called Wheeling for Hope and it is benefitting adult and pediatric brain tumor research. You can either bike or walk to help raise money. They are also going to have a fun zone for kids so there should be something for everyone to enjoy and all the money raised will go to the brain tumor research done by Dr. Alyssa Reddy(Cassidy doctor) and Dr. Burt Nabors (Dr. reddy's counterpart for the adult brain tumor program at UAB). These funds are not leaving our state. If you do not want to bike or walk you can make a donation to Wheeling for Hope at www.wheelingforhope.org. This will be the first fundraiser we have helped with but if we can help one family by not having to go through what we went through and one child to not have to experince what Cassidy went through it will worth it. We hope to see everyone there. If you would like more imformation you can either contact us or go online at www.wheelingforhope.org. Thanks so much for all the prayers and support you have shown us. It really helps to know so many people care about us. Also we wanted to say a special thank you to Flatwoods school for remembering Cassidy and our family in such a special way last week with the tree planting and balloon release. You will never know how much that meant to us. Love in christ, The Tierce Family

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:15 PM CDT

We just wanted to let everyone know that we made it home. Cade had a really good time and we enjoyed getting to spend some time with him. Of course his favorite thing everywhere we went was the hot pool(hot tub). I think he could spend all day and night in it if you let him. We will be going to Cassidy's school tomorrow(Flatwood's elementary) they are having something special in honor of her. They have all been so wonderful to us through all of this and I know whatever they have will be nice. We have made arrangement's to have balloon's sent to the school so that every child will be able to send Cassidy a balloon to heaven. If you don't already know this was a tradition we started back when MaMaw went to live in heaven and have continued through all of this.Cade thinks now everytime he get's a balloon he needs to send it to Cassidy. I am going to try to update this web page at least once a week. We are just not ready to give up her web site. Please continue to keep all the Children with cancer in your prayer's. We talked with some of our friend's at children's hospital today and it seems that there is several having a really hard time right now.Also please continue to keep all of our family and friends in your prayer's for now because this by far has been the toughest thing we have ever had to deal with. The Tierce Family

Sunday, April 2, 2006 11:37 AM CDT

First of all in case you were not able to be there,Cassidy had one of the most beautilul services I have ever attended.Everything from the flowers,to the message and all the beautiful songs that were sang.Secondly our family was overwhelmed at the turnout for the service and at the funeral home the night before.Cassidy really did touch more people than we ever imagined.Cassidy changed the lives of so many people over her short life in such ways that we will never understand.We just thank GOD for letting us have her for 6 years and all the great memories we will cherrish.Also we want to thank everyone for all of the food that was sent and to the church for feeding our family members.The tusc.police dept did a fantastic job in guiding all of the cars that went to pay there last respect to Cassidy at the graveside.Over the last 18 months we lost a lot of time with our son Cade,in which most of this he does not understand.So over the next couple of weeks we are going to carry him on a vacation to try to make up for lost time.We will forever be indebted to the care she received at childrens hospital and will try our best to help any family that faces the things we went through over the last year and a half.Thanks again to everyone who supported us and loved and cared for Cassidy like she was there own.Also please remember to continue to pray for those little ones who are still at battle with this terrible disease so that they may walk out victorious.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND ALWAYS REMEMBER TRUST IN THE LORD BECAUSE HE DOESN'T ASK US TO UNDERSTAND IT BUT JUST TO BELIEVE AND TRUST IN HIM FOR HE HAS A PLAN FOR ALL OF US ONE DAY.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:27 PM CST

We would like to thank everyone for the love and support that we have received from the beginning of our long journey and especially over the last few days. The arrangements are as follows:

We will receive friends Tuesday night from 5-8 pm at Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel (located on Hwy 216).

The funeral will be held at 2 PM on Wednesday at Taylorville Baptist Church. We will then proceed to Tuscaloosa Memorial Park for the burial.

In lieu of flowers, we would like to encourage you to make donations in memory of Cassidy to the Hemoc-Oncology Dept of Children's Hospital at 1600 7th Avenue S., Birmingham, AL 35233 or buy a cancer awareness car tag - Curing Childhood Cancer when renewing your tag. We want the Fight to continue so that her friends and all others can win this battle.

If you have any questions about arrangements or need directions, please contact Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel at (205) 553-3141.

Friday, March 24, 2006 9:26 PM CST

Cassidy went to her heavenly home at around 8:20 tonight. She went peacefully as her mom and dad held her close. As she let go of her mother's hand, her MawMaw Brenda, Poppy Jim and her dog Rusty were waiting to take her to get her Angel wings. Please continue to pray for strenth and peace for the entire Tierce family. They would like to thank everyone for all of the prayers, calls, emails, visits, cards, and support over these last 18 months. Also remember all of the wonderful doctors and nurses that have been with them through this journey. We will update again as soon as we know the arrangements.

Friday, March 24, 2006 12:56 AM CST

Please pray for the Tierce family today. Cassidy's condition has deteriorated to the point to where treatment has stopped, and comfort is being given. Sean and Suzie are with her, brokenhearted. They want to thank everyone for the continued support and prayers over the last eighteen months. Please pray for strength for Sean, Suzie and Cade, and for mercy for sweet Cassidy. We will update as soon as things change.

Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:28 PM CST

Cassidy's situation has gotton a lot worse. It seems that her that her virus(aento) in her lungs is progressing.We sat down with the doctor and he showed us the x-ray.They have had to go up on the vent to provide her with the oxygen she needs.They are going to continue to treat her as they have been.She will have another x-ray tomorrow.We will sit down with the doctors again tomorrow to re-evualte her condition.This is one of the most hardest journals we've ever had to write.We ask eveyone that when you read this journal that you stop and say a special prayer for her lungs because it's all in his hands now.We continue to hold out hope for her to be healed and miracles do happen.This will be the last update for today unless something changes.We will try to reupdate the journal tomorrow after we meet with the doctors to give everyone the latest on Cassidy's condition.On a positive note Kadin (our great little neighbor) is diong really well and the last we heard they are going to try to take him off of the vent tomorrow.So please also remember him in your prayers also that they are able to sucsessfully remove him from that.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE CONTINUUED SUPPORT AND PRAYERS.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:03 AM CST

Cassidy was really restless yesterday,and fighting the vent.They went back up on the sedation to help her rest.All of her numbers were about the same this morning,except her liver numbers were up slightly.Our doctor said that her chest x-ray looked a little worse than yesterday which was probably caused from her RSV and the aentovirus.(this was probably why she was so restless and fighting the vent).So we just try to keep battleing and pray that those viruses get better with the medicines that they are giving her.Please continue to pray for Cassidy's lungs to heal and the aentovirus to go away.This seems to be our biggest issue we are facing at this time.We wil try to update again tonight for futher updates on her condition.GOD BLESS THE TIERCE FAMILY

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:05 PM CST

There hasn't been a whole lot of cange since the last update.They are still getting off extra fluid, and all of her numbers are holding steady.She seems to be moving around a little more than yesterday and she is opening her eyes a little more.Everything else is still about the same.We just hope this trend keeps going in the right direction as it is now.Things change around here so quickly,but for now,it seems like we've made a little progress today.I must go for now because it is visiting hours,but if anything changes we will let everyone know.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 0:39 AM CST

Sorry we haven't updated more today,but she is doing really well.Her blood pressure is holding good and all of her numbers look really good.Her white cell count is excellent(7415).They have changed a few things today so I will do my best to explain it.The biggest problems she is facing right now is her liver and her adntovirus as most of you know already.So they have changed her med. for her aentovirus from 1ml 3 times a day to 5ml one time a week.As for her liver she has gotton a diff. kind of med.in the past before we were moved to ICU for it,besides the trial med. she is on now.So she received it today and will get another dose tomorrow.(her liver numbers have gotton worse over the last few days,so hopefully this will help).Her dialysis machine has been working great all day.(knock on wood).We hope we can continue to take off more fluid than she is receiving because we lost time yesterday due to the machine not working.Her weight was a little up today also,but with the machine running all day today that should help.We get all of her numbers daily at our 5a.m. visit so we will see if we have made any progress with her liver in the morning.But as for today we seem to have made a little progress.We know things change around here by the minute,but so far so good.We want to thank everyone for all of the food that has been brought,all of the cards and e-mails we have received,all of the family and friends that visit us daily, but most of all,all of the prayers that are being sent up for Cassidy's complete recovery.We love each and everyone of you who care so much about Cassidy and our family.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:45 AM CST

Good early morning to everyone.For the latest on Cassidy,we had problems with the dialysis machine today which set us back on getting more fluid off.They started having problems around 3:30 this afternoon and finally got it running about midnight.They had to put another cathader in because the one she had clotted off.She also had numerous blood pressure issues today.But as for now,it is up and running again and they are taking off an extra 10cc's per hour.Her blood pressure was really good when we left just a few minutes ago.Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.If you read the last two updates from today,you all know we're really on a rollercoaster ride right now.(up one minute and down the next).When we left her room tonight,she had her eyes open and was moving her arms again.(it is very hard to leave when she seems to be doing so good,but we know we have to pace ourselves to continue to battle with her each and every day).We still have a very long road ahead of us and the odds don't seem to be in our favor,but for the last year and a half her odds were against her and she is still here battleing today.So we just continue to be with her at every moment that they will allow us,battle with her,and continue to pray that the GOOD LORD will heal her.I will sign off now so that we can get some sleep and get ready for what will hopefully be a brighter day tomorrow.God bless everyone and we love you all very much.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Monday, March 20, 2006 3:10 PM CST

We just wanted to give an update after we met with the doctor's this morning. They are very concerned about Cassidy. The most critical issue is her adenovirus, then her liver and last is her blood pressure issue's. She has alot going against her right now but she still has a very small shot at beating everything so they are not giving up just yet. We all know how much of a fighter Cassidy is so we are just going to keep doing what we are doing and praying that God will heal her because it really is in God's hands now. She was awake again when we went down at 10:00 which alway's help's us feel better but of course she had fallen back asleep by the time we left at 2:00. we are hoping to see her awake at our next visit. We will keep everyone posted as often as we are able as to when changes are being made. Please just continue to keep Cassidy and Kadin in your prayer's they both need all the support they can get right now. Thank's also for all the e-mails it really help's to see that so many people care about Cassidy. God Bless! The Tierce Family

Monday, March 20, 2006 6:13 AM CST

If you read the last entry we were going to wait to update after we met with the doctors,but we just had to pass along some good news to get everyones Monday started.Cassidy opened her eyes for us this morning.She is also moving her arms around.(she is still sedated and doing all of this).They also took off 420cc's more fluid off of her than they put in.All of her numbers look very good except her liver number which is still up.She is still a very sick girl with a lot of problems yet to solved but we just had to share this bit of good news to everyone.We are going to lay back down now and get a nap,and we will reupdate again after our meetings with the doctors.Thanks for all the conrinued support and we hope everyone has a great week.THE TIERCE'S

Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:37 PM CST

I am sorry that we haven't updated before now but we have had alot of company and Cade here this weekend. There has not been alot of change with Cassidy. They had some problem's with the dialysis machine yesterday so that has put us behind with getting the fluid off but today they have it up and running again and if her blood pressure will allow it they are going to pull an extra 10ml an hour off. We are going to meet with the doctor's in the morning(late morning) to get the game plan for next week. I will try to update again after that to let everyone know what is going on after that. Please continue to keep Cassidy and Kadin in your prayer's. The Tierce Family

Friday, March 17, 2006 9:54 PM CST

Soory we are so late updating,but there is not whole lot of change.The only thing that has really changed is they took out her chest tube this morning,and they are beginning to to take off more fluid than they are putting in.(these are both good things).Hopefully over the next few days,all of the fluid she has been retaining will come off(as long as her blood pressure stays stable).Right now all of her vital signs look good,so we just continue to inch forward little by little.Cassidy is a very strong little girl who is fighting very hard right now to continue to get better.We just continue to be patient and put our trust in the good LORD above and let him give the doctors and nurses the strength they need to take care of her.GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!! THE TIERCE FAMILY

Friday, March 17, 2006 9:57 AM CST

Not a whole lot of change since we last updated.We went down this morning at 5 and got all her numbers.Her kidneys are a little bit better,but her liver numbers were a little bit worse.Her white cell count and all her electrolytes all looked really good.She got pretty agitataded yesterday a couple of times,so they had to give her more sedation medicine.(we actually seen her move her hands a little).Thats about all the news there is for now,so we will try to reupdate this afternoon after we see the doctors to let everyone know if there will be any changes made.Also we need a special prayer request for Kadin who is having some problems with his lungs,so please contonue for his lungs to heal as well as Cassidy's continued road to recovery.Thanks for all the continued support.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:42 PM CST

We just got back from our 10:00 to 2:00 visit with Cassidy. It started out really good her oxygen and blood pressure was good. Her blood count's this morning were a little better except for her liver, which was up a little higher. If you read last night's update you know they had to put her back on the sedation medicine because she was fighting against the ventelator but her nurse told us at the 5:00a.m. that when she bathed Cassidy this morning she was not happy and she was fighting against the ventelator again and she had to give her some extra sedation to get her calm again. Well right before it was time to leave at 2:00 Cassidy started fighting against the ventelator again and they tried to give her a little more sedation but it didn't work so they actually gave her the paralizing medicine again to get her calmed back down but Dr.Tofil said that it really is a good sign to see that she has that much fight left in her. She really is a fighter and she has already come so far. We will just continue to pray for her strength and courage to over come this difficult time. Alot of people have been asking what the visiting hours are so I am going to post them today. !0:00a.m. to 2:00p.m.,4:00p.m. to 6:00p.m.,8:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. and then 5:00a.m. to 6:00a.m.Please continue to keep Cassidy and Kadin in your prayer's. The Tierce Family

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:28 PM CST

Since we've last updated,we have some more news to pass along.First of all as you know,they took Cassidy off of the sedation medicine to see how she would react.Her ventilator was set at 28 bpm(breaths per min.)When we walked into the room for our 4pm visit and started talking to her her bpm went into the 40's.So we know she can hear us and is still fighting.That's all the doctors needed to see.(they said it was good to see,but she was overriding her vent which could do more harm than good,so she was put back on her sedation meds.for now).It seemed like a bad thing,but we were told it wasn't.Her recovery time is just going to be a slow process and is going to take a lot of patience(which is very,very hard to do right now).Her fluid input and output is about the same which is really good.The best news of the day is that her ADENOVIRUS IN HER BLOOD CAME BACK NEGATIVE TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!What this means is it will be checked again for the next 2 weeks (every Monday) because they have to have 3 consecutive neg. cultures.If this happens she will be able to come off of some of her many antibiotics that she is on. This will be a MAJOR hurdle to overcome.As you all know we still have major issues with her liver,kidneys,and lungs.If you read the earlier update her kidneys and liver are just a touch better than yesterday.These problems are still a long way from being healed.So for now,we just continue to take baby steps forward,in what we hope and pray that down the road is going to lead Cassidy to a full recovery.Thanks for the continued prayers and please also remember our neighbor Kadin and his family as we all get through this together.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:10 PM CST

So far everything is still going in the right direction.Her liver number is down,her kidney number is down,and also her white cell count is still good(3320).All of these things are a good sign even though we still have a long way to go.The have taken her off of all the sedation medicines she is on to try to let her wake up to check her neuro status.This could take a little while due to her kidneys not working right and all of the medicines taking a little extra time to clear her system.She is still a very sick little girl with a lot of issues still to deal with including the ventilator,but at least for now,the dialysis machine is doing exactly what we had hoped for.We just continue to pray she keeps improving a little bit each and every day.We will try to update again after our midnight visit. Once again,thanks for all the overwhelming continued support and prayers.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:45 PM CST

So far so good.If you read the earlier journal you know that Cassidy is now on dialysis and is doing really good.It is just amazing to see the fluid that she was retaining in her body that is now being flushed out.They are going to try to make her input and output the same for now to make sure her body can tolerate it,and her pressures stay the same.Hopefully over the next few days,they can make it to where she has more output than input which will reduce the swelling.This will also give her kidneys a rest and help her liver.They have also started her liver med. back.They still have her heavily sedated.We will try our best to update twice daily(after our 2pm visit and after our 12midnight visit to keep everyone informed).We want to send a special thanks out to the Gazzaways for a wonderful supper tonight.Also thanks for all the e-mails and prayers that we are receiving from all over the world.Cassidy is a very special child in our hearts as well as many others,and we continue to hope things are only going to get better in the near future.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND HAVE A BLESSED NIGHT THE TIERCE FAMILY

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:41 PM CST

We just wanted to let you know that they will be starting dialysis today they put in the catheter this morning and it went really well. When we left from visitation at 2:00 they still hadn't hooked her up to the machine. Hopefully when we go back at 4:00 it will already be started. She had some problem's with her blood pressure and oxygen level's during the night but they came back up this morning and she was doing good when we left from the first visitation. Please continue to keep her and Kadin in your prayer's because they are both having a difficult time right now. God Bless! The Tierce Family

Monday, March 13, 2006 6:13 PM CST

Cassidy's oxygen level and blood pressure is still looking good but her kidney's are slowing way down and she is retaining alot of fluid. What we need most urgently now is for her to start peeing. I never thought I would have to ask for prayer for her to start peeing on her own but that is what I am asking people to pray for today. If she doesn't start on her own she will have to be put on dialysis tomorrow. The doctor's talked with us today and let us know that she can still go either way and that is still hard for us to hear so please keep her in your prayer's. I can't tell you thank you enough for all the e-mails it really lifts us up to read them and to know there are so many people out there praying for her because as we already know she is in GOD'S hands now. Please continue to pray and especially for her to start peeing on her own. God Bless Everyone! The Tierce Family

Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:54 PM CST

I am sorry we haven't updated before now but it seem's like we just wait thinking there will be something good happening soon but after the set back she had Friday we just have to wait patiently on her body to heal. Which is very hard on us. They said she is still doing better than they thought she would be doing at this point which is good news. They did not do the bronc( the tube down into her lung's) today she was not stable enough.They have though taken her off of the paralyzing medicine,but are still keeping her heavily sedated.She may still have to be put back on it depending on she reacts when it wears off.Cassidy is very puffy due to her body retaining fluids and not being able to get rid of it.She is still fighting like a brave little solider to get better.She still has a lot of issues going on in her little body that could still go either way.We just hope and pray that over the coming days she will continue to improve and get better so that we can get back to our normal room and finish off this battle that we have been fighting for so long.For the latest update on our wonderful neighbor Kadin go to www.caringbridge.org/visit/kadingazzaway.GOD BLESS EVERYONE THE TIERCE FAMILY

Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:28 PM CST

Sorry we haven't updated before now,but as they say no news is good news.Cassidy is still doing really well.Her oxygen level,blood pressure,and heart rate is fine.They really haven't made a lot of changes today.They are just letting her rest and get some of her strength back.As far as we know they will be running the tube down in her lungs tomorrow to check for what type of infections she has in her lungs.She is still under sedation and probably will remain that way for at least a few more days.She has came a long way since yesterday and is fighting with all of her might to continue to get better.We are on our way down to see her now so I must sign off,but before I go all we say is thank you to the many people,friends,and family that have supported us and are contining to pray for our family during these hard times we are dealing with now.GOD BLESS YOU ALL THE TIERCE FAMILY

Saturday, March 11, 2006 0:53 AM CST

Words can not express the pouring of love and support we have been shown today by our family and friends and neighbors.We are so thankful for all of the e-mails we have received today.The doctors and nurses up here did an excellent job today in getting Cassidy to where she needed to be in such a short period of time in order to save her life.She is still in serious but stable condition.Just to let everyone know,about 8:30 this morning we came very close to losing our daughter,but by the grace of GOD and all the expierenced nursing staff and doctors she is still here fighting her heart out to win this battle.Cassidy went into cardiac arrest this morning and they were able to bring her back.As I write this right now and have just came back from our visit all of her vitals look extremely good.We know she has a lot of problems right now(VOD(liver problem),atnovirus,pnumonia in the lungs) but the doctors are very happy of the progress she has made over the last16hrs.She is being given a paralyzing drug right now to keep her fully sedated.They are probably going to keep her sedated through the weekend.We should have more answers to as where she stands over the next 3-4 days.Right now,we just thank GOD for giving her strength to continue to fight this.As for our neighbor next door(Kadin)he seems to be improving each day.His parents Billy and Emily have also been wonderful in helping us and hopefully before to much longer we will be neighbors back in our rooms instead of ICU.We will try to update again tomorrow after our 2:00 visit.GOD BLESS YOU ALL THE TIERCE FAMILY

Friday, March 10, 2006 12:39 AM CST

There has been a lot of change since we last updated.Cassidys oxygen dropped really fast this morning so she was rushed to the ICU unit this morning.After she got down there her heart stopped beating but CPR was done and they got her heart back to beating again.She is on 100% ventilator as we speak now.Her condition is very critical.We won't know what kind of damage was done for a few days.They got the chest tube in so they could drain the fluid from her lung.The doctors said she would get a lot worse before she gets better.We by no means have given up yet,but the next few days are very critical in seeing if she will respond to the treatment she is receiving in ICU.We ask that everyone pray harder than ever for Cassidy's condition to improve so that she gets well and is able to go back to her room.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Thursday, March 9, 2006 8:22 PM CST

As a lot of you probably know,the news we received today was not what we wanted to hear.Cassidy's lungs have gotten a little worse over the past few days.Tomorrow we will be going back to surgery again to remove the fluid from around her right lung and they will also be running a small tube down in her lungs to check for more infection.In order to do this,she has to be put to sleep.The problem with that is,she is already on oxygen and has a hard time breathing due to her lungs.There is a possibility that after surgery if she can not breathe on her own she will go to the ICU unit to moniter it.We will not know any of this until after the procedure is over.The procedure is scheduled for mid morning.We will do our best to update everyone after everything is done.Tomorrow will be one of the hardest days we've had to face since we have been here this time.So we ask everyone to please pray for Cassidy and our family as we go through tomorrow.GOD BLESS EVERYONE THE TIERCE FAMILY

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 9:19 PM CST

I really don't have any news to tell you about tonight.Cassidy has rested most of the day. She had another echo done on her heart this morning and they didn't see much fluid there at all. They only drained about 40cc this morning so they are not going to drain it tonight. She will have another echo in the morning to see what happen's if they wait 24hrs to drain it. We never got to see the doctor's about her lung's today they said it will be tomorrow. We would like to thank everyone who is donating platelet's. It means so much to us but there is no way we could possibly thank everyone personally so we would like just to tell you on this website. Please continue to pray for Cassidy and also Kadin because they are both having a very rough time right now. God Bless! The Tierce Family

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:11 PM CST

Cassidy had a pretty good day.She is having problems with her breathing so they did another CT scan today.The result was they think she is getting a touch of pnuemonia in her lungs.This is what is causing her breathing issues.So tomorrow will be another long day.They will be doing test on her lungs to see exactly what is going on and what she has.We should also get the results back from the test on her RSV.She is doing really well on the med.she is getting for the VOD.Her counts are still holding good.Cassidy just has numerous issues that are setting us back in her recovery.Every time we seem to get good news it seems like something else happens.We just continue to be patient and the doctors up here are more than you can ever imagine as far as being on top of the problems she is having.As far as her heart, the fluid they are drawing off every12 hours is a lot better.They are only getting about 40 cc's every 12 hrs.We will continue to update as much as possible as things change up here.Mabey tomorrow will bring better news to us and everyone who is keeping up with her progress.Thanks to everyone for the continued support and prayers.We hope everyone has a good night and GOD BLESS you all.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Monday, March 6, 2006 4:13 PM CST

Cassidy has been about the same again today. She had a echo on her heart this morning and they said her heart was doing much better and there was not nearly as much fluid around it. They were only able to drain 20 cc from around it this morning. Yea!!! They will check it again tonight. They check it every twelve hours.
The last couple of days we mentioned Cassidy needing platelets. I talked with the people at red cross today and they said that they only collect platelets in Birmingham and anyone interested in giving can call them directly at 1-888-905-3344 to set up an appointment. That way you will not have to contact us first you can just work with them so you can go at your convience. We would like to thank everyone who is going and who has called us to let us know you would like to donate. Please just continue to keep her in your prayer's because she still has alot going on and again I would like you to add Kadin Gazzaway in your prayer's. They had to move him to the ICU today to help him with his breathing. His website is www.caringbridge.org/visit/kadingazzaway
God Bless! The Tierce Family

Sunday, March 5, 2006 9:43 PM CST

Cassidy's day has been about the same as the past couple of day's. Her count's today are 6750. YEA! At least we have some great news. We are still taking the new medicine every six hours but it is still too early to tell if it is working. Like I said before we just have to have alot of patience which is sometimes hard to do. Also as we mentioned the other day Cassidy is having to get alot of platelets so anyone with o postive blood who is interested in donating directly to her please let Sean(349-7037) or Suzie(391-7387) know so that we may add your name to our list. All we need is your name and phone# and then you can go at your convience to red cross to donate.
Also we would like to ask everyone when you are praying for Cassidy to please include our hospital neighbor Kadin Gazzaway. He is also going through transplant and he is having a real hard time right now too. His website is www.caringbridge.org/visit/kadingazzaway. We hope everyone had a great weekend. God Bless! The Tierce Family

Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:01 PM CST

Cassidy day has been about the same. Her count are now up to 6780. Can you believe it? See how God does answer our prayer's. They drained another 230cc of fluid from around her heart this morning and another 65cc tonight. We all have noticed how much better Cassidy is resting since her surgery yesterday. Which is great news. Also they started the new medicine at midnight last night and she will get it every 6hrs for the next two weeks. Now that they are able to keep the fluid from around the heart they are really going after trying to stop the VOD. We are praying that this treatment will work and that soon she will feel much better. Please just continue to keep her in your prayer's. God Bless! The Tierce family

Friday, March 3, 2006 8:12 PM CST

The surgery is over and everything went great.They drew off 600 cc's of fluid from around her heart.They left the line in place in order to be able to drain more off as needed.We know the fluid will come back until everything else gets straightened out.Now they can treat the other problems she's having without having to worry about her heart.She will be starting on the new med.that we have mentioned earlier for the liver tonight.It will be given 4 times a day for 2 weeks.Cassidy seems a lot more peaceful and is NOT in near as much pain.Hopefully this is a start to a lot of good things coming.Her counts went to 5880 today.(WOW!!!!!!!).She will be receiving a lot of platlets over the nextseveral days so if anyone is interested in having your name added to the list to be a direct donor to Cassidy,you can contact us at 391-7387 or 349-7037 (our cell numbers)for more information on how to do it.We will be repeating this on our next few updates.Thanks for all the continued support and prayers and hopefully we can start going in the right direction now.GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!!!THE TIERCES

Friday, March 3, 2006 11:05 AM CST

We just wanted to let everyone know to please be in prayer for Cassidy. They are taking her down this afternoon to remove the fluid around heart. Hopefully this will relieve alot of the pressure so that they can be more aggressive with treatment of the VOD. I will update again when we are able.

Thursday, March 2, 2006 6:12 PM CST

Cassidy's counts went up a little more today. Her white count today 2950. Which is still great news praise the Lord.On the down side we have found out that the adenovirus that was in her GI tract has now gotten into her blood. It is treatable but with the VOD and the fluid around the heart and lung's it is going to be a little more difficult.We will be starting the medicine for the adenovirus in just a little while. This is just one of the many complications we are having to deal with.It's just a fine line the doctors are dealing with in trying to fix one thing and keep from harming another.The virus she has is very critical in getting under control and keeping it from getting into her fluid she has around her heart and lungs.As for the VOD,the medicine should be coming in from Atlanta in the next day or so.It has not been FDA approved yet but the doctors are in the process of working around that in Cassidy's situation.(right now the med. is in a trial process being used in Emery (Atlanta hospital).All that being said,her RSV test came back negitive.(HURRAY!!!).It has been a long day with both receiving good news and bad.Hopefully tomorrow all the bad news will go away and we will get nothing but good news.Thanks to everyone for all the cards and presents that have been sent up to Cassidy.Everyone just please keep praying because we really know he is in charge of everything thats going on up here.GOD BLESS EVERYONE!!!! THE TIERCE FAMILY

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:17 PM CST

First of all if you didn't see this morning update. Please go back and read the old journal entries. We had are cat scan and ultra sound today. The fluid around the heart and lung's is about the same. The imflammation in her stomach was a little better and of course as we expected her liver is enlarged but the flow pattern is still the same. Which they say that is very good. They will be getting the new medicine in on Friday. Until then they have taken off most of her medicine's that could put stress on her liver. Also since her stomach was a little better they decieded to start her back on her feeds(through the feeding tube) They are going to try to start cycling her off TPN. Because TPN can be hard on the liver. This will probably be a slow process because she has to be able to tolerate it. Dr.Sande seems to think that now that she is beginning to get some count's maybe some of these problem's will start to resolve on there own. That is what we will pray for tonight and also say praise the Lord for the miracle he has given us. Please continue to pray for Cassidy because even though her count's are going up she still has a long way to go but we all should know that miracles really do happen. God Bless everyone! The Tierce's

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 11:04 AM CST

We got good news and bad news this morning. For the good news she is engraphing her white count went up to 2730 with an ANC(infection fighting cells) of 2223. Which is great news. Cassidy's counts have not been that high in over a year. Now for the bad news. Her VOD is back. We just went for a cat scan and an ultrasound but we have not heard any report from that. They are in the process of getting a new medicine from Atlanta to try. The big problem is what they need to do to help the fluid around the heart and lung's is hurting her liver and vice versa. So they are walking a thin line trying not to hurt either one. We will try to update again tonight to let you know what else is going on.Praise the Lord for the engraphment hopefully that will help alot by itself.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:58 PM CST

Hey everyone! just wanted to let you know that everything is still about the same. Cassidy had her echo today and the fluid around the heart and lung's is still about the same.We will continue to have echo's every two to three day's just to make sure it stay's the same because we do not want to see the fluid putting any pressure on the heart.We already have a chest x-ray every morning to check her lung's. They are going to repeat the cat scan on Thursday and also recheck for the RSV.She also tested postive for the adenovirus which is treated with antibiotic's. The doctor's seem to think that once she start getting her white cells up (the infection fighting one's) that most of these problem's will start to resolve on there own. Just continue to keep her in your prayer's because she is fighting a hard fight right now. Of course she is still bossing all of us around but that is all right because with everything she has been put through I think she deserves it. God Bless! The Tierce's

Monday, February 27, 2006 9:29 PM CST

Hey! We just wanted to let everyone know that there hasn't been alot of change. She will be having another echo to check the fluid around her heart and lungs. We are going to pray that it is better or a least the same and not any worse. We usually hear back from it pretty quick so I will try to update as soon as we know something. Also the want to repeat her cat scan on Wed. or Thur. just to recheck everything.
Cassidy has been pretty demanding over the past 24hrs. We know that this is a good sign but when she tells you she wants something you had better get it quick. She has not only had us jumping around but also the doctors and nurses. We watched several movies last night and today but this evening I think everything finally caught up with her because she has already gone to sleep. I just hope she can rest all night long and not wake up and be ready to go around midnight. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. She has come a long way but she still has a long way to go. God Bless! The Tierce's

Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:00 PM CST

EVERYTHING IS ABOUT THE SAME HERE. THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO KEEP ALL HER LEVEL'S BALANCED TO KEEP EVERTHING UNDER CONTROL BETWEEN THE VOD,RSV,FLUID AROUND THE HEART AND LUNG'S AND BRAIN ALL IN CHECK. IT SEEM'S LIKE WHEN THEY GET ONE THING UNDER CONTROL SOMETHING ELSE GET'S OUT OF CONTROL. SHE IS STILL BEING A LITTLE BOSSY BUT WE FEEL LIKE THAT IS JUST A SIGN THAT SHE IS GETTING BETTER. hOPEFULLY EVERY DAY SHE WILL IMPROVE JUST A LITTLE BIT AND SOON SHE WILL BE BACK TO HER NORMAL SELF. WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE ANYBODY THE IDEA SHE IS OUT OF THE WOODS BY NO MEAN'S BECAUSE SHE STILL HAS ALOT GOING ON BUT WE FEEL LIKE SHE IS GETTING BACK TO HER NORMAL SASSY SELF. PLEASE JUST CONTINUE TO KEEP HER IN YOUR PRAYER'S AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL JUST CONTINUE TO GET SOME IMPROVMENT. GOD BLESS! THE TIERCE'S

Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:53 PM CST

Cassidy has been very bossy today. She want's what she want's when she want's it and not two minutes later. She likes trying our patience but we would much rather see her this way instead of the way she was last week at this time.They did a nasel swab on her yesterday to check for infection and today we have found out that she has RSV. As of right now it is only in her head which is where we want it to stay. We do not want it to move into her lung's. They have called in a few infectious disease control doctor's so that they can figure out the best way to handle this.They elected to give her some medicines that will give her antibodies to help fight it off. Hopefully this will be all she needs. Other than that everything else is still the same. We are just waiting patiently for some engraphment. Thanks so much for checking on her and please just continue to keep her in your prayer's. God Bless! The Tierce's

Friday, February 24, 2006 7:03 PM CST

Well not a whole lot of news to report today. They just keep telling us patience,patience. She did have another echo on her heart and lungs today and they were about the same. They are changing some of her medicines up to see if that will help relieve some of the fluid and they are going to do another one on Monday or Tuesday unless something changes before than. We are just going to pray that will not happen. We hope to have a quiet restful weekend and hopefully some engraphment. We hope everyone has a great weekend. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:28 PM CST

I am sorry I haven't updated before now but we went for a cat scan late this afternoon. They just wanted to check everything again for an infection due to her spiking fever's the past couple of night's. So far none of her blood cultures have grown anything which is good. The cat scan was of her neck,chest stomach and pelvis area. The fluid around her brain is still about the same if not slightly better but the fluid around her heart and lung's has increased some. She is still not having any problems with that right now so they will check that again tomorrow with another kind of scan. The echo is a little more detailed than the cat scan. She has already had one this week but it is something they will have to do about every two or three day's until this problem is resolved. Please pray that it will resolve on it's own so that she won't have to have it drained. Over all though Cassidy still has alot of problems but she seem's to be getting a little stronger and she is now able to let us know when something is bothering her. Hopefully cade's stem cell's will start engraphing soon and alot of these problem's will go away on their own. God Bless! The Tierce's

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:08 PM CST

Cassidy hasn't had any changes since yesterday's update. We are basically just wanting on the stem cell's to start engraphing. She probably slept a little better last night until about 4:00a.m. Then she woke up with a fever and she was having a good bit of pain. They ended up giving her a lortab and after about 30 mins. She was back more to herself and we stayed up and watched a movie. She was awake until about 8:00a.m. then she went back to sleep and has slept most of the day. With this gloomy weather we are having it is a very good day for sleeping.They really haven't changed anything we are doing except that they had to do alot of blood cultures since she spiked a fever to make sure she still has infections. They do that as a routine when you get a fever up here because they have no immune system to fight off anything on their own. They started her on TPN(nutrition) last night because until they can get all her tummy problem's under control they can not use the feeding tube. We hope getting some nutrition will help her feel better also. We just have to be very careful with her liver right now due to the VOD which is under control right now and we want to keep it that way. Please just continue to keep her in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:11 PM CST

If you read yesterdays update there is not a lot of change.They did the echo today and it showed basically what we already knew.She has fluid around the heart and lungs and they are going to closly moniter it. She will have another one done on Thur. to see if there is any change.She will be starting her nutrition again tonight (a little diff. than the other one she was on).She is still in a lot of painand is very restless.They have found one infection she has which is similar to c-diff which she has had in the past.Itis an infection in the stool called Entro.This is not causing the fluid or her counts to be low.This infection will basically have to run its course.(if you come up you must wear gown and gloves before entering the room).The doctor still thinks she is 7-10 days from her counts to start engraphing.We just continue to pray that things are going to get better in the near future.THE TIERCE FAMILY

Monday, February 20, 2006 3:39 PM CST

We just met with the doctor and got the results back from the scans.It looks like there is numerous issues causing the pain.She has a little fluid build up around her lungs and heart.Her large intestine is also inflamed.All of these things can be caused by different things including an infection and or not enough nutrition.They have stopped her feeds for now due to the inflamation in her belly.She will have an echo done tomorrow to check her heart more in detail.They are changing some of her meds around to try and cover any little infection she might have.She is very uncomfortable right now and in a lot of pain.I know all of this sounds like a lot but the doctor is still very confident that we can resolve these problems over time.Her counts are still very low which may be causing some of the problems.The doctors and nurses up here are out of this world in response to taking care of her and all of our needs as well.Please continue to keep Cassidy in your prayers as she is having such a difficult time right now.GOD BLESS THE TIERCES

Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:28 PM CST

Hey! There's not really anything new to report today. She had a very restless night last night and today hasn't been a whole lot better. She is constantly crying with her tummy hurting. They deceided to stop her feeds for now to see if that may be causing the pain. She was already scheduled to have a cat scan tomorrow to recheck the fluid on the brain so they said while they had her down there they are going to also scan her belly just to make sure there is nothing going on. I think that will at least make us feel better. Her counts are still not moving in the right direction so pray that the cells will start to engraph really soon. We all feel if she just had some counts alot of the problems she is having now would just get better on there own. God Bless! The Tierce's

Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:52 PM CST

Well today didn't start out real well but as the day progressed she felt a little better. She is having alot of stomach pain the past two days and there is really not a whole lot you can due for stomach pain. They are going to give her some lortab in just a few minutes so hopefully that will help her rest better tonight. We hope everyone is having a great weekend and please continue to keep her in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Friday, February 17, 2006 10:12 PM CST

I just wanted to let everyone hear a little bit of good news for a change. Cassidy finally got a good night's sleep last night after they gave her a some lortab and when she got up this morning she seemed a little more alert and as the day progressed she was able to talk to us a little bit. Today has been a much better day. The doctor's and nurses were also very happy. Hopefully this will only be the beginning of better day's to come. Thanks so much for Checking on Cassidy and our family and please continue to keep her in your prayer's. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:17 PM CST

I just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidy is still about the same. So far all the test they have run have come back negative(no infection's). So we are still trying to find out what caused the Fluid between the brain and skull. We have so many doctor's working with us now it's truely amazing what team work they have up here. Please just continue to pray for Cassidy because she really is having a very rough time. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:23 AM CST

Good morning. Just a quick update.As you read in the last update,they did a lot of testing on Cassidy yesterday and hopefully we can get some answers today but early this morning she had another small ceaser.She has been very restless all night.As soon as we here from the doctors we will try to update everyone on her condition.Times are tough up here right now,but we are all staying positive.Please say an early morning prayer for her this morning in hopes that we receive some good news today.GOD BLESS EVERYONE.SEAN

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:53 PM CST

I am sorry I haven't updated before now but we have been waiting for them to be able to tell us exactly what is going on but so far they haven't been able to say for sure. They have been working very hard to find out though. Cassidy has had so many test and so many doctors in today trying to find out exactly what is happening. We have really been pleased with everyone working so hard and working together to try to figure this out. Of course by now we all should know that Cassidy is not going to follow any textbook cases she is just going to make up her own as we go. They have stopped alot of her medicines to see if that will help her come around some and tonight for a little while she did wake up and respond to us some. So hopefully we will all rest a little better tonight. Thanks so much for all the prayers and e-mails you have sent our way. It really does help us get through these hard days and hopefully tomorrow will be a little better. Please continue to keep Cassidy in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:36 PM CST

Cassidy went for a cat scan and an MRI today. Well the medicine they thought probably caused her seizure this morning is not the cause. They are still trying to find the cause. She had some fluid built up in one of the layers of the brain and they are not sure what caused that but they said it might be the cause of the seizure. The neuro- surgeon is going to look at her MRI first thing in the morning and then meet with Cassidy's stem cell doctors and see if they can determine a cause for the fluid but right now they think she may have had a little bleeding to her having low platlets for such a long time now. They may have to tap her shunt to check for an infection. Everything is just speculation for now and we should know more in the morning and of course I will update as I find out more and she is resting enough for us to be able to take the time to update. The doctors up here are really great and they are checking every possiblity there is. Please just continue to keep her in your prayers for now because as we all know he is really the one in charge now. God Bless ! The Tierce's

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:09 AM CST

We just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidy is having a very rough day. She had a seizure this morning. The doctor's think it was caused by one of her medicines but she is undergoing testing to rule out anything else. I will update again later tonight and let everyone know how she is doing.

Monday, February 13, 2006 7:28 PM CST

I just wanted everyone know that Cassidy is still about the same. We went for another ultrasound of the liver and it was just the same as Friday which is a good sign. Her doctor said she believes that we have caught it early and hopefully the medicine they gave her will work. We just have to keep a close eye on it to make sure it doesn't get any worse. She is sleeping alot which is good her body really needs the rest right now. Please just continue to keep her in your prayers. That's the best thing anybody can do for her right now. God Bless! The Tierce's

Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:25 PM CST

Just wanted to ask that everyone keep Cassidy in your prayers. She is having a very hard time and has developed some complications this time. She now has developed v.o.d. of the liver. It is a diesease of the liver and we believe we have caught it early and we have begun medication for it.Hopefully this treatment will work. Thanks so much for checking on her. God Bless! The Tierce's

Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:42 PM CST

Everything is still about the same today. I think she may feel just a little better. She seems to be resting better and she did not require as much medicine today. She still is getting sick alot but I think some of that is from her feeling the feeding tube in the back of her throat because they have some spray that numbs the back of her throat and as soon as they spray it she quits spitting up. Her counts still have not started coming up at all. We are praying that it will happen soon. She is having to get platlets alot and she had to get blood today. Hopefully things will start looking up soon. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Friday, February 10, 2006 5:03 PM CST

I just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidy has had a really bad day. Her electrolytes(sp?) were all off and they said it was from her not getting enough nutrition so they had to put a feeding tube in. Her oxygen level also dropped so she is now on oxygen. Please continue to pray for her. She is tough but she is really having a hard time. They feel if we can just get the stem cells to engraph alot of these problems should go away. She also had to have an ultrasound on her stomach today and it was the only good news we had today.They said everything was o.k. with her liver. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 9, 2006 8:30 PM CST

I just was going to give everyone a quick update. Cassidy seemed a little better today but she is still having a very tough time. We just keep praying that Cade's cell's will engraphed soon. So that Cassidy can start feeling better. Everyone up here is just as ready as we are to see her feeling better. We hope everyone has a great weekend and please keep up the prayers. She still has a long way to go. God Bless! The Tierce's

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 10:10 PM CST

Hey Everyone! This is just going to be a quick update. I want to ask everyone to please pray for Cassidy she is having a very tough time right now. They are trying their best to keep her comfortable until her stem cells engraph. Hopefully that will be soon. We already hit the one week mark today. Thanks so much for checking on her. God Bless! The Tierce's

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:56 PM CST

Cassidy hasn't had alot of change today she is still just very uncomfortable. she is having alot of swelling in her face so they took her down for a catscan. They just wanted to make sure it wasn't a sinus infection. Everything come back fine from it. They said the swelling is probably just coming from the mucositis. They started giving her morphine for the pain and phenegran for the nausea so she has been doing alot of sleeping. We are glad because we hate to see her in so much pain. Hopefully the stem cells will start to engraph soon and she will start feeling better. Please just continue to keep her in your prayers because she is having a very tough time right now. God Bless! The Tierce's

Monday, February 6, 2006 3:44 PM CST

I just wanted to go ahead and give everyone a quick report. Cassidy is still having alot of pain so they have given her some morphine and it really seems to help. I think she is in more pain then she is letting anyone know because she is afraid if she tells them something is hurting then they will do something to them or give her more yucky tasting medicine.She is getting to smart. She is beginning to show signs of the mucocitis(sp?) like she had last time. So there for she is not eating well at all. Please pray for Cassidy to start feeling better and for apetite to come back so they will not have to put a feeding tube in. They are already discussing the feeding tube but we asked them to give her a couple more days. That is about all the new news I have for now. God Bless! The Tierce's

Sunday, February 5, 2006 9:18 PM CST

I don't have much to tell you tonight. Cassidy is still having her headaches and stomachaches. She spiked a fever this afternoon but it came down on it's own but they started her on antibiotics and did blood cultres. It is just routine. She has been sleeping alot which is good her body just needs to rest so that she can get better. Hopefully everything will start improving soon.Please continue to keep her in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:17 PM CST

There is not alot to tell about today. Cassidy has been sick all day. Her tummy is hurting and she has a headache. They have been trying different medicines all day but nothing is really helping. She has been sleeping alot today which is good. Her counts are really low right now but that is what they want so that she will not reject Cade's cells.Like I said before we are just having to try and keep her comfortable until the cells engraph which will take about two weeks from transplant. We hope everyone is having a good weekend. God Bless! The Tierce's

Friday, February 3, 2006 11:32 AM CST

Hey! I just wanted to update again because when we added the pictures last night it took away my journal entry. Cassidy's headaches are getting worse and she is having to take alot of tylenol. When they do rounds today they were going to see if there is something else she can take for the headaches besides tylenol. She got sick again this morning so they gave her some phenegen(sp?) so she is sleeping good now. I am glad because she did not sleep good last night. Cade is on his way back to Tuscaloosa and he is doing great. It is amazing how well kids bounce back. The new pictures are from the day of transplant. I thought most of you would like to see how that day went. Thanks so much for all the prayers and support you have shown us we really appreciate everything. I wish there was a way to thank everyone personally but there is just no way we can do that right now. So we would like to use her web site to thank everyone. Please continue the prayers because the next few weeks are really important. We need the stem cells to engraph and no graft verse host disease. We hope everyone has a great weekend! GOD BLESS! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 2, 2006 10:25 PM CST

Thursday, February 2, 2006 9:41 PM CST

Hey! I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on everything that has been going on today. Cassidy is having some headaches and is a little nauseated today.They think one of the medicines she is taking is causing it but of course it is the one that prevent's GVHD(graft verse host disease)so it is not one we can change. Hopefully once the get her up to the maintence dose she will quit having the headaches. Hopefully the nausea will discontinue soon because she is not eating as well. Cade had to come back today and they removed his pressure dressing and said everything looked really good and he doesn't have to come back so his part is over. We are so proud of him he did really good. In fact Cassidy has done really good this time too. They are both very strong to endure everything they have been through. We want to take a minute to thank everyone for all the support and prayers you have shown our family we wish we could thank everyone personally but we just can't. So we would like to use this web page to just say Thank you. Please continue to pray for Cassidy because the next couple of weeks are really important as to whether the cell engraph and to not get the GVHD. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, February 2, 2006 6:53 PM CST

Hey! Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on how things are going around here. Cassidy is still doing good. She has been having alot of headaches and has been a little nauseated but they think one of her medicines is causing it. It is one that she has to take to prevent GVHD(graft verse host diease)so hopefully after she gets her to the maintence dose that will stop. Cade came in today for them to check him and remove his bandage. He did really well and besides being a little sore he is doing great. He will not have to come back again so his part is over. We cannot tell everyone enough how much we appreciate all the prayers and support we have received. There is no way we can thank everyone personally so this is the only way we can tell everyone thank you. Please continue with your prayers because the next few weeks are really important as we wait to see if the cells engraph and hopefully not have any GVHD. God Bless! The Tierce's

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 2:44 PM CST

The transplant is over and everything went fine. Cade did really good and is running around like nothing ever happened. Cassidy is sitting in the floor playing with some ponies she recieved from her friend Sara Gail. Now we just have to wait and see if it works. Like I said before it will take about two weeks for the cells to engraph. Thanks so much for all the prayers and support everyone has shown us and continue to pray that the stem cells engraph this time. God Bless! The Tierce's

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:10 PM CST

Cassidy finished her last round of chemo today. She also got platelets. Now she just has to wait until Cade get's out of surgery tomorrow. So that she can get her transplant. For those of you who have never seen a transplant it is basically just like a blood transfusion for Cassidy. Then we will just have to wait and see if it engraphs like it is suposed too. It will be a couple of weeks before we know anything. Cade on the other hand will be going to surgery for them to remove his bone marrow from his hips. He will be put to sleep so that he does not know anything. They said he will be gone approx. 2hours that includes recovery and everything.We have to have Cade here at 5:30a.m. his surgery is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. I am not sure exactly how long it will take to process before they will be able to give it to Cassidy. I will try to update as soon as everything is over. Please remember to keep Cassidy and Cade in your prayers tomorrow. Thanks so much for all the support. God Bless! The Tierce's

Monday, January 30, 2006 9:43 PM CST

Cassidy had a pretty good day. She has watched alot of movies today. She has played some but she gets tired easy.We have one more day of chemo left and hopefully it will be the last chemo she will ever have to get. Everything is still on schedule for Wednesday. We don't have the time for Cade's surgery yet but they said they would let us know tomorrow. They said it would probably be the first case. I will let everyone know as soon as I know.Just keep Cassidy and Cade in your prayers. Hopefully everything will go really well. Then we will just have to wait and see if Cade's bone marrow engraph's. It will be a couple of weeks post transplant for us to know if it worked.Thanks so much for all of your support and prayer's. God Bless! The Tierce's

Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:10 PM CST

Cassidy is still doing really good. She is still trying to eat and drink. We are really proud of her. She is still doing alot of crafts and coloring. The only change we can really see is that she gets tired really easy but that is to be expected. Her blood counts are dropping but that is what they want. We only have two more days of chemo and then her transplant to get through but if things go like the did last time she wasn't sick until about two weeks after transplant when her counts were at their lowest. So right now we are just considering ourselves lucky. Please continue all the prayers this week because this week is going to be really tough on all of us. God Bless! The Tierce's

Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:08 PM CST

Cassidy hasn't had much change since yesteray. She said her tummy is not hurting anymore. They ended up not doing the ultrasound today since she wasn't hurting anymore and we are just going to wait and see what happens. She is still eating which is very good for Cassidy as most of you know that is her least favorite thing to do. She spent most of the day with her memaw while Sean and I spent most of the day with Cade. Memaw said she had a pretty good day and they had done alot of coloring and arts and crafts. She only has three more days of chemo so please keep her in your prayers. God Bless! The Tierce's

Friday, January 27, 2006 9:35 PM CST

Well we made it through another day of chemo. Cassidy has been a little more tired today but she is still doing fairly well. She is still having a tummy ache so she is going for an ultrasound in the morning. Hopefully they will figure out whats causing it. She had to get platelets again today. I guess the chemo is just wiping them out. I am hoping that she will rest good tonight so she will feel like getting up and playing tomorrow. Please continue to keep her in your prayers and for Cade also. His big day will be here soon and he has to be completly well for them to be able to do it. I am sure it will be tougher on him since he is not used to coming to the hospital like Cassidy is. They are both so tough it is just amazing to us. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:37 PM CST

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still doing good. I had a tummy ache last night and was up most of the night. They gave me some pain medicine in my noodle about 5:00a.m. and I finally went to sleep and when I woke up this morning it was all better. I have a friend here that I played with in clinic a few times.So they let me go out of my room so that we could play together. We colored and decorated cookies. I spent most of the day out playing so I am pretty tired tonight. I have just been watching movies ths evening. Please continue to keep me in your prayers because as we already know prayer works. Cassidy

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:05 PM CST

Cassidy has had a much better day. The chemo did not make her sick at all today. In fact she and her daddy had everyone that walked in the room doing crafts with her. She has been up playing pretty much all day and she is really trying hard to eat and drink. She doesn't want to have to get a feeding tube. She is having to get red medicine(blood) tonight which always makes her feel better. Hopefully she will get a good night's sleep tonight and get up feeling just as good tomorrow. Thanks so much for checking on Cassidy. The Tierce's

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:13 PM CST

Cassidy day didn't start out real good. She had her first round of chemo and she ran a fever with it. She slept most of the morning and early afternoon from all the medicines they gave her but when she woke up this afternoon her fever was gone and she has been fine ever since. She has been up bowling,coloring and painting.
We got her MRI results back this afternoon and everything is still the same as the last one which means she is still cancer free. Now all we have to do is get her bone marrow working again and maybe she will be through with everything. We just have to say alot of prayers that everything will go just like it is suposed to this time. Please keep her in your prayers tomorrow and thanks so much for all the support and e-mails. GOD BLESS! The Tierce's

Monday, January 23, 2006 10:02 PM CST

We just wanted to let everyone know that we have been admitted back to the hospital. They let us have the same room we were in last time(Room # 663). We will start chemo again tomorrow. Today they are just giving her fluids to get her ready for tomorrow. We did have a surprise when we got here today. She had her next MRI scheduled for Feb. 8th and they decided to move it up and they were able to work it in today. She did great of course. I think I might like it being a surprise like that because I didn't have to worry about it before hand. We will not get the results from it until tomorrow though.
Cassidy is doing great! I think right now she is enjoying being back because she is getting to play with all her nurses again. Cassidy got to go and pick out a new baby doll before she came to the hospital today. It is one of the Lee Middleton dolls from Parisians baby nursery. She named it Tommy. She has really enjoyed playing with it today and he even went into the MRI machine with her. Tommy was a gift from her new friend Claire Corley and her family. I don't know if you remember but Claire was the one who had the lemonade stand for Cassidy back in the summer. She is a very special little girl she has done so much for Cassidy and until today they had never even met each other. We would like to give them a very special thank you for caring so much.
I will be updating daily again while we are in the hospital and I would like for everybody to please remember Cassidy in your prayers because even though she is having fun tonight it is going to be very tough on her. Thanks so much for checking on Cassidy's progress. The Tierce's

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:47 PM CST

Well we met with the doctors yesterday and they gave us our schedule. Basically we are starting the transplant procedure completly over. Cassidy will be admitted to the hospital on January 23. She will receive 8 days of chemo and then on February 1st Cade will be admitted and they will get the bone marrow from him and transplant into Cassidy the same day. They expect her to at least be in the hospital for at least a month and then we will have to live in our apartment for a 100 days post transplant. That is if everything goes exactly as it should and that is what we are praying for but we all know by now that Cassidy never follws their plans.Hopefully this time it will be different and different for the better.
I would like to ask for everyone to please keep her in your prayers all the way through this because this type of transplant can have alot more complications then the previous one. We have faith in the doctors and in God that everything is going to be just fine this time.
Cassidy is having to go through alot of testing before everything is final. She has to be at children's at 7:30 in the morning and will be there all day going through testing please keep her in your prayers tommrow. So far though she is handling everything like a champ.
Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Sunday, January 8, 2006 9:23 PM CST

We hope everyone had a great New Year! We sure did. We got to spend it at home and we also got some extra days away from the hospital.
I know everyone has been wondering what is happening with Cassidy but there has been alot of planning going on and decisions to be made but they have finally decided to use Cade as the donor. We started all the prelimanary testing on Friday. Cassidy had a bone marrow test done and a few other test run and she did really well. Cade also had to have a few test done. He did well also but he let them know that he was not happy about it. We will be meeting with the doctor's this week and they will let us know more about everything that is going to happen and when we will be starting. I will post it as we know more details. I know we havn't been updating but they have had us on a roller coaster ride on whether or not they were going to use Cade or not and now that decision has been made everything else should just fall into place.
Please remember to keep Cassidy in your prayers because she is going to have to go through alot over the next few weeks and Cade also.
The Tierce's

Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:12 PM CST

Cade is a match! We do not know all the details yet and will update again once we do. The doctors are going to review all the results and come up with a plan. We expect to start in a couple of weeks. Please keep up the prayers!

Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:52 AM CST

I just wanted to give everybody a quick update and let everyone know that we still do not know if Cade is a match. Cassidy's blood did not have enough DNA in it to compare to Cade's. They tried it twice now so we went yesterday and they took a swap in her mouth and they are sending it to John Hopkins in Baltimore to check it that way. We should know something in the next few days. Cassidy has had a runny nose and cough so they checked and she has RSV. Cade is sick also. Sean took him to the doctor yesterday and they said he had the croup. When I told them that at children's they said since Cassidy was sick first that he probably has RSV also since it is very contagious but since they are both sick we would not have to keep them apart. Which is good because I don't know how we would have done that with christmas right around the corner. The bad part about that is there is no medicine for RSV your body just has to fight it off and that will be hard with Cassidy's immune system already so low but hopefully we will all be home for christmas. We won't be able to do anything but as we know so well it could always be worse.
We hope everybody has a very Merry Christmas and thanks so much for all the prayers and support you just don't know how much we apprciate all the things everyone has done for us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sean, Suzie,Cassidy & Cade

Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:38 PM CST

Just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidys PNET scan came back clear.We still do not know if Cade is a match yet.Hopefully we will find out this up coming week.They had a great weekend and got to spend the night with ME-MAW.We will let everyone know as soon as we find out about Cade.Other than that everything is going great.Happy holidays to everyone and thanks for the continued support.God bless you all.THE TIERCES

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 1:13 PM CST

Well we just wanted to let everyone know that everything is still the same. Her counts are holding there own. They didn't change a whole lot since last week. She is still feeling good. She will be having her PNET scan done early in the morning and then we will have to go to stem cell clinic to check her counts. Then tomorrow afternoon we will go and see Dr. Reddy. I am not sure how long it will be until we will hear about the results from the scan but I will post it as soon as we know something. Please keep her in your prayers that everything will come back that she is still cancer free. We have not heard anything from Cade's test yet but they did tell us it would be two weeks. Cassidy and Cade are both getting ready for Christmas. They are both very excited and cannot wait until Santa comes. We hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far. The Tierce's

Monday, November 28, 2005 10:22 PM CST

Cassidy went to clinic today and our news wasn't what we wanted it to be. Her counts have dropped again. It looks like now that her stem cells are not going to engraph so they are going to check Cade on Wednesday to see if he might be a match. It is just a blood test but it will take about two weeks until we know if he is. Please say a extra prayer that he is a match.That would be the best case scenerio. We will update as we get more information but just to let everyone Cassidy is doing really good. She is eating and playing just like any normal six year old if you didn't know anything about blood counts you wouldn't know anything was wrong with her. She will be having a pnet scan a week from Wednesday just to check the one area that they believe is just scar tissue doesn't have any cancer cells in it. As far as we know now she is still cancer free the only problem she is having now is with her blood counts. I am not sure what Cassidy thinks a pnet scan is but she sure is excited about it. She is also very excited that Cade is going to be the one to get stuck on Wednesday but of course she doesn't understand why he is having to be stuck. We are still praying that her counts will start coming up while they are doing all tthe testing but if she has to start all over that Cade will be able to be her donor. I will try to start updating more often while all this is going on but please continue to keep her and your prayers.

Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:42 PM CST

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving this year was a little different for us but it was still good. We have had so much happen to us this past year but we still have so much to be thankful for. God has been so good to Cassidy this year and has helped her to keep winning her battle. Even though she is cancer free right now she is still struggling with her blood counts daily but to look at her and to talk with her you would not know that her counts are so low. If you were to ask her she would tell you that she is not sick anymore and she is having a harder time with having to stay at home and away from people now. She would just like to be a normal six year old now but we keep telling her all that will happen soon. One of the reason's we have not really updated is because everytime I update that her counts are finally going up it seems like the next day they are right back down so I didn't want to jinx us this time but it didn't work. Cassidy's counts were finally going up but then last Wednesday they came way back down again. I am not sure what we are going to have to next we just keep hoping that they come up on their own and stay up. Please say a special prayer that her counts will come up soon and stay up like they are suposed to be. Cassidy is really looking forward to Christmas we have been decorating all weekend. She says Christmas is her favorite time of the year. Santa even stop by and left her one of his special elves to play with until Christmas. She and Colleen have been having a good time together but Cassidy keep having to clean up all her messes. Colleen like to get up and the middle of the night when we all are sleeping and she seems to get into alot of mischief. I will try to update sooner this time and again we hope everyone has a good and safe holiday season. God Bless! The Tierce's

Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:54 PM CST

Just wanted to let everyone know that I had my MRI on Tuesday (WITHOUT BEING PUT TO SLEEP)! and there is no sign of disease in my spine or brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!T here is one little spot in the back that is still there and has been there since my first surgery.So just to make sure that it is just scar tissue like they think,they are going to do a pet scan in a couple of weeks.(that is a scan done at UAB that will show up any sign of diseasein that certain spot if there is any there).So whats next you ask? Icontinue to go to the hospital Mon,Wed,Fri to have my counts checked because they are still not very high but are slowly coming up little by little.Hopefully it won't be to long before this will finally over,even though Iwill still get checked on a regular basis for a long time to come.Thanks for all the continued support and prayers. CASSIDY

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 8:58 AM CST

We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! Cassidy got to wear her costume to the hospital yesterday and they let the kids trick or treat in the stem cell clinic. she was really excited about that but of course I know she won't eat any of the candy. We are having a hard time getting her to eat anything right now. She just goes through these phases where sometimes she eats really good and sometimes we can't get her to eat anything at all.
We finally got some good news yesterday her White blood count is finally starting to come up. It is higher right now than it has been in a relly long time. So hopefully we are finally going in hte right direction. She had to get platelets yesterday but that was all. We are now only have to go to the hospital Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Which works out good because we have school on Tuesday and Thursday's.
Please continue to keep her in your prayers that her counts will continue to come up. Thank you so much for all the support you have shown Cassidy and our family.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:23 PM CDT

Sorry for not updating sooner but this is the first chance I have gotten. We had a very busy week last week. Cassidy got the last of her stem cells on Monday. Everything went pretty well but of course it was a very long day. We had to go to the hospital everyday last week but hopefully if everything goes well we will only have to go MOnday, Wednesday and Friday this week. We went yesterday and Cassidy had to get blood and platlets but hopefully that is all she will have to get extra this week. She is still getting her medicine twice a day to increase her white count. Right now we are just having to wait on her stem cells to engraph. We are praying daily that they will and she will be through with her treatment. She is just so ready to be a normal 6 year old. She is feeling really good and she just doesn't understand why she can't go and do the things everybody else is doing. Thanks once again for all the prayers and support you have showed us and please continue to pray for Cassidy's stem cells to engraph. God Bless! The Tierce's

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:04 PM CDT

Well we thought we would be through with radiation today because they told us 30 treatments but to get to the maxium dose she has 1 more treatment. TOMORROW IS OUR LAST DAY!!!!!! We will not be able to get the last of our stem cells until Monday. Please say an extra prayer on Monday that these cells engraph and hopefully we will be finished. Cassidy is really excited because as a surprise for all she has been through her daddy got a limo to take her and her friends on a ride today. It is coming at 2:00 and she is watching the clock. A lady that we have never met until today gave Cassidy a angel pin to wear and Cassidy really likes it. It is really amazing at all the kindness people have shown us. Thank you so much for all the prayer and support you have shown all of us. I will try to update again this week about the limo ride. God Bless ! The Tierce's

Friday, October 7, 2005 8:03 AM CDT

Cassidy only has 2 more treatments left.Hopefully Tuesday will be her last day ever.It seems like just yesterday we started this terrible ordeal,and 15 months later thanks to the good lord above we winning the battle.Over the past year she has been through more than you and I can imagine.If everything goes as planned,Thur. or Fri. of next week she will receive the rest of her stem cells.After that it will be wait and see to see if she engraphs.(that means her calls start reproducing on there on).We have a full mri scheduled for Nov. 8 at 6;30 a.m.She has been such a warrior through all of this and I can't begin to tell you how proud we are of her.We will update again next week after her stem cell boost.Love and thanks to everyone who has helped us all of this.THE TIERCES

Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:37 PM CDT

Cassidy had another great weekend at home. We didn't really do anything but she got to have several of her friends over and she always enjoys that. We did stay home again tonight because of all the bad weather so we will have to get up really early in the morning. We will be starting our fifth week of radiation and so far she is doing really well. Her counts are really low but that was expected. We finally updated her pictures so if you have a minute please check them out. We hope everybody has a great week and thanks once again for checking on Cassidy

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:07 PM CDT

Cassidy started her fourth week of radiation and is still doing really well. We are still traveling back and forth so that Cassidy can see her teachers and I think she really enjoy's it.It gives her something different to do. She caught a frog while we were home this weekend and it looks like she is going to try and keep it. She talked her daddy into giving her some money so that she could buy a cage for it. She also had to buy it some crickets so that it would have something to eat. She is so funny she has been laying beside the cage all afternoon waiting for it to eat the cricket. We hope everybody has a good week and thanks for checking on us. GOD BLESS! The Tierce's

Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:02 AM CDT

I am so sorry for not writing sooner but we spend more time on the road now than we do at either the apartment or our house. At least it seems like it. Cassidy is still doing really well with her treatments. She is starting to have a few of the side affects ( hair loss and nausea and being more tired) but it has not slowed her down too much. We are still coming home twice a week for school and Cassidy really likes working with her teachers. We also are still getting to come home on the weekends and she really likes that because she gets to be away from both hospitals. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. I will try to update sooner next week. Have a great weekend! The Tierce's

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 3:10 PM CDT

I hope everyone had a good long holiday weekend! We spent the whole weekend at home and away from the hospital. We didn't have to be back until this morning. Cassidy is doing great with her radiation. They thought she would have to be put to sleep everyday for this but once more Cassidy has showed us just how strong she is. She said she didn't like the magic milk that they use to put her to sleep with she said it made her feel funny. She told me if I wouldn't let them give her the magic milk that she would lay still for them. We tryed it last Thursdy and she did great since then we go without the magic milk and she never moves. Everyone is really impressed that she is able to do it. I know I couldn't do it. Cassidy has just been so strong through everything she has been through this past year. It is really amazing. We know that all the prayers are being heard so please continue to keep her in your prayers. We hope everyone has a great week! The Tierce's

Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:08 PM CDT

We just wanted everyone to know we had another great weekend at home. We will be leaving for Birmingham and just a little while to get ready for our first radiation treatment. They have her scheduled to be there at 7:00am. We will have to come back home some so that Cassidy's homebound teacher can come and work with her. Cassidy is already talking about needing some more homework to do. I am sure they will be able to give her more to do if she wants it. I will try to update whenever we get back to let everyone know how her treatment's are going. Please keep her in your prayers because she is a little nervous about this because it is something she has never done before and the unknown always bothers her. Hopefully she will get used to it really quickly and we will be able to get through the next six weeks without too many problems. Once radiation is over she will get the rest of her stem cells and hopefully they will engraft this time and she won't need anymore treatments. We hope everybody has a safe week! The Tierce's

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:22 PM CDT

We met Cassidy's radiation doctor on Monday afternoon for him to introduce himself to Cassidy and to discuss her treatment plan with us. Everything went really well and she went back yesterday for simulation. Simulation is where they do all their measurements and make the molds that she will have to wear so that she will be in the postion they need her in everyday. She did really well and when she woke up they brought in one of the hand and paw dogs to see her. She really enjoyed that. It was a very long day but everything went really well. We spent most of the afternoon at clinic getting our GCSF and one of our antibiotics that we have to get once a month. So now we are we don't have to go back to clinic until Friday so we decided to come back home until then. Cassidy will start her radiation treatments on Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. We will go five days a week Monday thru Friday and be off on the weekends. They are going to keep us on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday appointment for now at children's for now to keep a watch on her count's. Cassidy homebound teacher is schedule to come and and see her tomorrow and I know she will enjoy that. She has really been bored lately because she feels to good to be stuck at home all the time. I will try to update again before we go back to birmingham next week. Thanks so much for all the prayers and support for Cassidy. The Tierce's

Monday, August 22, 2005 8:29 AM CDT

We hope everybody had a great weekend. We sure have enjoyed getting to come home on the weekends now. We met with Dr. Reddy again last week and she was very pleased with Cassidy's MRI but she still feels to get the best possible cure for Cassidy that we still need to go through radiation. The only problem is that Cassidy's counts still have not recovered from the stem cell transplant and we only have enough stem cells left for one more boost. All of Cassidy's doctors have met and decided to go ahead with radiation and give her GCSF, blood and platlets as needed to get her through it and then give her the last of her stem cells when she is finished with radiation. We will be going to UAB tomorrow to meet with the radiation doctor and Casidy will go through simulation to get everything started for radiation. We are not sure how soon after radiation will start I am sure we will know more after tomorrow. We do know she will go 5 days a week for 6 weeks (monday-Friday). Hopefully Cassidy will be able to lay still for this but if not they will have to put her to sleep everyday for six weeks. Someone told us that hand and paw would come if we ask them too and I think that would really help Cassidy because as everyone knows by now how much she loves dogs. The only thing we hate to see is her not feeling good again because right now she is feeling great and is acting like Cassidy again but if everything goes good this will be the last thing she has to do as long as it doesn't come back. So please continue to pray for her and hopefully soon this journey with cancer will soon be over and she will be able to be a normal 6 year old. We hope everybody has a good week and we will update as soon as we can. The Tierce's

Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:56 AM CDT

Cassidy is finished with her MRI.She just came back from recovery.Well I know everyone is waiting on the results.THERE WAS NO CHANGE FROM THE LAST ONE.(HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!)Her scan is still clean as far as they can tell.There is still a couple of spots on the brain that has not changed since her last MRI so hopefully it is just scar tissue from all of her prior surgerys.Her spine is completely clean(no signs of cancer).She will be getting platlets and gcsf today.Hopefully next week we will be seeing Dr.Reddy again to get ready to start radiation.Our prayers are being answered and hopefully will continue to be answered.Cassidy is a very strong little girl who has been through more in the last year than most of us will face in a lifetime.Things are a lot better than they were a year ago today and are getting better by the day.Thank you for all the continued support and prayers for our daughter.Sean and Suzie

Tuesday, August 9, 2005 12:50 AM CDT

Just to let everyone know,things are still going good.She went to clinic Monday and her counts were holding about the same.We have been home since Friday and will be going back to b-ham tomorrow.Cassidy has had a great time while at home and got to see weaseal for the first time since April.As you all know Thursday is the BIG day.We have an MRI scheduled at 8 am.As soon as we get the results I will update the web site.So everyone say a BIG BIG prayer for her in hopes that the MRI shows that she is still free of disease.GOD BLESS EVERYONE FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER.Sean and Suzie

Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:03 AM CDT

Back at home for the weekend.Not a whole lot to update.Cassidy is still going to clinic 3 days a week and getting her GCSF and platlets when needed.We go back to Dr.Reddy on Wed. of next week to discuss future plans for Cassidy.We also have a MRI scheduled on Aug 11.(Does that day ring a bell?)It will be 1 year to the day she was diagnosed with this horrible disease.Hopefully the cancer is stillgone from her precious body and we can continue on with radation to beat this awful disease.She has been such a big trooper to be so young.We will be going back tomorrow and I will update everyone again next weekend.Cassidy will be in the Aug issue of thunderroads magizine. You can see it at www.thunderroadsalabama.com.Sean and Suzie

Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:58 PM CDT

Hey everyone! We have been home for the weekend again and enjoying every minute of it.Cassidy is still doing good and to catch everyone up ,things are about the same.She still goes to clinic 3 days a week to check her counts.The plan is they are going to give her GMGCSF which is a white cell boost for a couple more weeks.Then we will have an MRI done in August to make sure the disease is still at bay.Following that we will be starting radiation(probably end of August)which will take 6 weeks.After that she will get the rest of her stem cells she has left.Hopefully that will end it up except for clinic visits and MRI's every 2 or 3 months .All this could changeas you all know and has in the past.But for now this is what we will be doing for the next few months.We will continue to stay in b-ham during the week and be coming home on weekends as long as Cassidy's condition allows us to do that.So yall take care and we we will see yall again hopefully next weekend.GOD BLESS EVERYONE! SEAN AND SUZIE

Friday, July 15, 2005 4:15 PM CDT

Good Friday afternoon to everyone!!!Guess what,WE ARE AT HOME FOR THE WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!Cassidy went to clinic today and they said we could come home for a couple of days.She is doing good,but her counts are still doing like a yo-yo,up and down.They are going to give us one more week to see how they do and thenif they are still doing like they have been more than likely she will receive the rest of her cells.All of this is still up in the air because as you know we still have to go through radiation and they are trying to save those cells for that.We will know more toward the end of next week as to what happens next for her.There are other possibilities that they are also looking at,but we will just have to wait until next week to see how she does.Well I'm gonna go now and enjoy the weekend at home.Sorry we don't get to update as much anymore,but we don't have acess to a computor at the apt.We will be returning to b-ham Sunday morning.Thanks for the love,support and prayers and GOD BLESS YOU ALL/Sean and Suzie

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 8:21 PM CDT

Good evening! Cassidy's counts have been up and down this week. After having the weekend off, she has received blood, platelets and GCSF this week. Her c-dif test came back negative but they are going to check another sample just to be sure. Donna is in Chattanooga with Mike, Teresa and the kids car shopping this week and doing well.

Check out the July issue of Thunder Roads Alabama magazine for an article on the ride for Cassidy. You can look at it online at http://www.thunderroadsalabama.com/read.htm (go to view the latest issue...the article is on page 7). Or (according to Sean)you can pick up a copy at Hooters or Rhythm & Blues.

Have a great week!

Updated by Teresa.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:03 AM CDT

Good morning!We are in clinic today.Her counts are1400 and her platlets are 18 which means we will only be getting GCSF.Her red blood cell counts are 8.4(as long as it stays above 8 she doesn't have to get blood).So all these numbers look pretty good and we willmore than likely come back tomorrow or Friday to check them again.She has to get a stool sample checked to see if she has gotten rid of her c-dif.She is doing really good and eating a lot better.Donna goes back to rehab on Friday also,mabey for the last time.She is using a cane now and doesn't need her walker anymore.Things are looking better and better each day,but we've still got to get Cassidy's counts up and stablized before we can even think of starting her radiation or coming home.I will update again next time we come to clinic.God bless everyone and if Idon't update before the weekend,we hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th.

Monday, June 27, 2005 11:28 AM CDT

Everything is still going good.We are in clinic today checking counts.Her counts have dropped a little so she will be getting GCSF.It's just a boost to get her counts back up.She will probably be getting this a lot until her counts start holding on there own.Donna is also doing good,and this may be her last week of therapy.We won't know for sure until Friday.So all in all things are really on the up side here in b-ham.In all reality Cade is keeping us busier than anything else,but I wouldn't have it any other way.We will try to update again later this week and thanks to everyone for all the continued support.

Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:54 AM CDT

Cassidy is doing great! Her counts were 6000+ yesterday and they gave her the weekend off from the hospital! Donna is home for the weekend with Mike, Teresa, and the kids.

The Red Cross is experiencing a blood shortage right now. If anyone is able to donate blood or platelets, please do so. Cassidy had to wait an extra day for her platelets this week due to the shortage. It is complicated by the fact that platelets are only good for 5 days. Cassidy has O+ blood, so if anyone is a match and would be willing to donate in the upcoming weeks, please let us know. Thanks and have a great weekend!

Updated by Teresa Casner.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:24 AM CDT

Good morning!!Soory we have not updated,but computors are hard to find.Weare currently in clinic having labs drawn to check her counts.She is doing really good and having a lot of fun with Cade.She is eating a lot better also.We are still trying to get her over her infection(c-diff),but they are letting us treat iton an outpatient at the apt.She is taking a lot of medicine but doing really good with it.Donna is also staying with us and doing great.She started her therapy yesterday and did really good.Cade has been keeping everyone busy,so all in all its just good to have everyone in the same place for a change.Iwill try to update later this week but if we don't its a sign of things going well.The number to the apt is 250-7696 if anyone would like to call.God bless everyone and we hope to see everyone real soon.

Friday, June 17, 2005 10:09 AM CDT

Well we are going to try going home again. They are letting us go today even though they have found out Cassidy has c-diff again. C-diff can be treated at home but they feel that is what brought us back in. We are going to be trying a new way to treat c-diff since the other medicine does not seem to be getting rid of it completly. Hopefully this will work better for Cassidy. We will still have to come to clinic everyday to get her counts checked and if she starts running a fever again we will have to come back in but hopefully that won't happen again. Please continue to keep us in your prayers and thanks once again for the prayers and support. We hope everyone has a great weekend and unless something happens we won't update again until Monday. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY !!! The Tierce's

Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:08 PM CDT

All of Cassidy's test results have been negative so far and if her last test comes back negative we will get out tomorrow.She is up and playing and back to herself again.She has no fever and her counts are as high as they have been(2760)and ANC(2097)which is great.Mabey she just wore herself out at the party and needed to sleep for a couple of days.(HA! HA!).Iwill update again tomorrow after the results come back from her last test.Sean

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:39 AM CDT

Well it was good while it lasted.Cassidy had agreat b-day party,and it was great to see her being herself and playing with her friends.But early this morning she got sick and was running a fever.So you guessed it,we are back in the hospital.This time we are in room 659.They are doing cultures to see if she might have an infection.She is back on antibiodics and tylonol for her fever.If her cultures come back negitive hopefully we will only be here a couple of days(but you all know we won't bank on that).On the brighter side she got to see her brother for the first time in over two months and they were very excited to see each other.Agreat thanks to everyone who came up for the party yesterday,and it was wonderful getting to see everybody.The number to the room is 212-7659.Sean and Suzie

Monday, June 13, 2005 9:45 AM CDT

WE'RE FINALLY AFTER 63 DAYS GETTING OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cassidy has to get red medicine and platlets first so it will probaly late this afternoon before we actually move to the apt.That's probably a good thing because it will take us that long to pack up.Cade is coming up in the morning (it will be the first time they've been together since April).Tomorrow we will be celebrating her 6th birthday together.She is so excited!!!!We still have a ways to go yet,being checked daily here at the hospital and after they release us,then we have to go through radiation.(6 weeks 5 days a week).Once that's over she will be monitered closely with scans and mri's to make sure that the rotten disease does not return.Our number at the apt is 250-7696 if anyone wants to call us.Iwill try to update again Wednesday.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE REAL SOON!!!!!!!Sean and Suzie

Friday, June 10, 2005 11:34 AM CDT

ONE OUT AND ONE TO GO!!!!!!!!!! Donna is out and doing great.She is on her way home to T-Town with Mike to stay for the weekend.She will return to our apt. Monday and start therapy hopefully on Wednesday.Cassidy's counts are continuing to rise (1870) and we are still on pace to be released to go to our apt. on Monday.I was asked by someone to put our apt adress on the sight so we could receive birthday cards for people who wanted to send them to Cassidy.(I don't have a clue and neither does Suzie),so anyone wishing to send cards can send them to the house (7209 37th st. northport 35473)and we will have someone pick them up there and bring them to Cass.There will be no futher updates til Monday unless there is changes,and mabey you will be reading about us leaving and making plans for Cassidy's b-day on Tuesday.Once again,thanks to everuone for the continued support and prayers for our family during this hard time,because without all of you and the good Lord above we would not have been able to make it through it.Sean and Suzie

Thursday, June 9, 2005 1:22 PM CDT

Not a whole lot of changes today.Cassidys counts are still on the rise at 1710 and her ANCis 1322.We're still shooting for Monday to get out if everything stays on track.The c-dif infection that she had is gone,and she is doing great.Donna is getting out in the morning as I said yester day and Mike and Teresa are coming down to help with that.I will try to update tomorrow after we get Donna settled in and if there are no big changes I will not update again until Monday with hopefully the words of WE ARE GETTING OUT OF HERE!!! Oh by the way someone from Sonic called and there having a little fund raiser for Cassidy on Saturday with all the proceeds going to her trust fund (The one in Northport from 9-5).God bless everyone and have a great day!!!!!!!!! Sean and Suzie

Wednesday, June 8, 2005 3:10 PM CDT

Counts are at 1420!!!!! ANC is 1095!!!!! Still no word from the lab on the results for her infection(we're hoping its gone due to the looks of her counts).There's words floating around up here of the possibility of going home (apt) first of next week!!!!! Wouldn't it be awesome if we could be out by her birthday(next Tues.the 14th).The doctor said she will do her best for us so we can have a party in APT 212 INSTEAD OF ROOM 663.Thats still a long ways from now,and we have heard these words of going home before,but at least we know we are getting closer.Cassidy is running around here like a wild indian (with a bag of chips in her hand YEA!!!).Finally beginning to nibble a little bit,which is also a good sign.When she and Cade finally do get to team up again,it will be a sight to see.As for Donna we will be moving her Friday to the apt.to stay with us.She will be starting outpatient therapy hopefully next week. Sean

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 1:29 PM CDT

Cassidy's counts are beginning to come up a little inch by inch.Her counts are at 1120 today and you can take 70% of that number to see what her ANC is(anc is her infection fighting cells).The anc must be 1500 for 3 days in a row for us to get out.That number is 784 today.The doctor seems to think that hopefully once the infection is gone,her counts should shoot up pretty quick.We should have the results back from the lab tomorrow to see if she has cleared the c-dif infection.As for Donna,she is being released Friday from the hospital.I think she will be going home for the weekend,and then come back up to stay in the apt.,so she can do outpatient therapy.This will allow Suzie or myself to take care of her and Cassidy at the same time,and also Mike and Teresa will be here to help out as much as they can.It should make it a lot easier on the family to be able to stay with her around the clock instead of having to leave her by herself at night.Mabey in the next week or so Cassidy can join her ME-MAW in the apt as well.(we sure hope so)!!!! Thanks for the prayers and support.GOD BLESS YOU!!!!! Sean

Sunday, June 5, 2005 11:16 PM CDT

I just wanted to write and let you know that my counts are dropping again. They are just going to watch them over the next couple of days to see if they will come up after I get over the c-diff. They are still having me take that yucky medicine every 6 hours. The childrens miracle net work held a telethon here this weekend to raise money for the hospital and the Alabama dance team was here to help out with it and someone told them about me and they came up to see me. I really enjoyed their visit. Cade is staying with aunt Vickie this week so mommy and daddy can get to see him too. We are so thankful that we have aunt Vickie to help us out. She comes and plays with me and Cade whenever we need her. I also have alot of other family and friends who help us out all the time and mommy and daddy are so thankful for them also. We don't know what we would do if we didn't have so much support from everybody. Mommy said Memaw had a really good day today and that she is getting alot stronger. I hope I get to see her again real soon. Thanks again for all the prayers and support and please keep me in your prayers so that my counts come up soon so I can get out of here and also for MeMaw so she can get out of the hospital too. God Bless each and everyone one of you. Cassidy

Saturday, June 4, 2005 11:04 PM CDT

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am feeling much better and mommy and daddy told me that my white blood counts have come up just a little bit over the last two days. I am hoping that I am over c-diff because I hate the medicine that I have to take for it. YUCK!! They are going to check me again on Monday. Also Mommy and Daddy have been telling me how well MeMaw is doing. We are both hoping to get out of the hospital really soon so that we can take care of each other. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Thanks for all the prayers and support. Cassidy

Thursday, June 2, 2005 11:49 PM CDT

I had a very good visit with MeMaw yesterday. Of course I was asleep when she first got here but they woke me up and I was just getting up and ready to play when she had to go back to her hospital. I can't wait until we can both get to the apartment so that we can take care of each other. I also had another special visitor yesterday. Landon got to come and play with me last night. We watched a movie, played cards(of course we beat momy and Mrs. Sherry) and we played with my goofy punching bag and my dinosaures before he had to leave. I am feeling really good but my mommy and daddy are telling me my white counts are dropping again. My doctor seems to think that is because of the c-diff and when we get that cleared up she is hoping that my counts will start coming up again. I just hope it is really soon because there are only 12 days until my birthday and I really would like to be at the apartment for my birthday. I hope everyone is having a good week. I love ya'll! Cassidy

Wednesday, June 1, 2005 12:14 AM CDT

Sorry there was no update yesterday,but caringbridge was down.Cassidy has c-dif again(its like a yeast infection).It should clear up in the next few days,and hopefully her counts will start coming back up again(counts are dropping due to her cells trying to help fight off the infection).Cassidy has a special visitor coming to see her this afternoon(IT'S ME-MAW).Isn't that just great.Donna is making great progess in her recovery effort.The therapy she is receiving has been great.She gets two sessions per day(9-10:30 and1:30-3:00).It should be a fun afteroon.I will update again tomorrow to let everyone know how the visit turned out.Until then,thanks for the prayers and support,and GOD BLESS YOU ALL.Sean

Monday, May 30, 2005 12:48 AM CDT

Happy memorial day!! Cassidys counts are about the sameas they have been the last few days.She will probably be getting the rest of her cells this week to boost her counts on up.(things change up here on a daily basis so this is just what we have been told).She's been running a little fever,so that could also have an impact on what happens over the next few days.Donna seems to be improving a little each day.She is in spain rehab next door to childrens in room 426.If anyone wants to talk to her the # is 975-1225.We will update again tomorrow.Sean

Friday, May 27, 2005 9:00 PM CDT

Just a quick note,Cassidy's counts came up a little more today,(possibly going home end of next week to our apt.)The service for Suzie's father was WONDERFUL.The support that was showed for Suzie and Mike was out of this world.Donna was able to come to the funeral home for a private viewing and is now in spain rehab next door to childrens.Thanks for all the support shown for Suzie and Mike during this bad times they are facing.I will update again on monday when we here from the doctors on both Donna and Cassidy's condition. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!! Sean

Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:07 PM CDT

The funeral arrangements have been set for my dad. The visitation will be tommorrow (Friday) from 12:00-2:00 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Following the visitation, there will be a service at 2:00. Following the service there will be a graveside service at Memory Chapel on Skyland Blvd. Thanks for everything.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:41 PM CDT

Cassidy had another good day her counts went up again and she took a couple of bites of food yesterday which is start in the right direction. She also ate a couple of bites again today. I am sorry that I have not let everyone know about my dad's funeral but we are still waiting to hear if bc/bs will cover mom's rehab. As soon as we get everything finalized I will post it on this web site. Hopefully we will be able to have it on Friday but it all depends if we can get my mom moved to rehab then. Please continue to keep Cassidy and my mom in your prayers. GOD BLESS!

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:14 PM CDT

First I want to say PRAISE THE LORD! We have had alot of good news today. First thing Cassidy counts tripled this morning. Then we had another MRI done today and Dr. Reddy said everything looked good and as far as she could tell right now CASSIDY IS CANCER FREE!!! We will still have to do radiation to give Cassidy the best possible chance for a cure but things are definatly looking up. Also they moved my mom out of ICU and into a regular room and they are talking about moving her to rehab in the next couple of days. She talked with the doctor today about going to my dads funeral and he told her that she definatly could not go Thursday but she could probably go Friday or Monday if we could coordinate it with moving her to rehab so for now we have put the funeral on hold and will let everyone know tomorrow when it will be rescheduled. We know mom really wants to be there so we are trying to do everything in our power to get her there. We would like to take a minute to thank everyone for all the prayers and support you have showed me and my family it has really been overwhelming and we appreciate everything. I know all the prayers are working cause we are getting our strengh through them to get us through this tragic time. On a lighter note I wanted to thank the people from Thunder Roads magazine for taking the time out to come and see Cassidy and to let everyone know that she will have a story about her in their magazine in July. I will try to remind everyone about it closer to time. I know we still have a long road ahead of us so please continue to pray for us and don't forget to thank him for the miracles he has already given us. GOD BLESS EVERYONE! Suzie

Monday, May 23, 2005 7:13 AM CDT

Good morning. Ihave a lot to update so lets get started.First,Cassidys counts are on the up again.They have been slowly coming up over the weekend.The doctors have not been through yet,so mabey the next update I will know what the plan is for her.Now to Donna,she woke up yesterday,yes I did say woke up.She was alert and asking questions(you got to understand that she still has the ventilator so we were trying to read lips)Hopefully the vent is coming out today.Suzie and Mike broke the news of what had happened to her.As sad as it was,it was really unbeleivableof the turn around she took,just amazing.Jims funeral arraingements:Thursday 11:30-1:30 visitation at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. The funeral mass will follow at the church.Following that there will bea small graveside service at tusc. memorial park.If you need more info.call me on my cell(349-7037)or the funeral home(553-3141).In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Childrens hospitalhemoc/oncology cancer researchfund at 1600 7th ave south suite ACC 512 b'ham AL 35233. SEAN

Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:53 PM CDT

Hey everyone,what a day it has been.The fund raiser was AWESOME!!!!!! They raised 8000 dollars and had almost 200 riders.(Thanks to thunder roads alabama,Susan Tatro and her family,the moose lodge,all the sponsers and people who donated gifts,fox 6,nbc 13,Wayne and Brenda Hannah and all the people who road in the ride).Fox and NBC will show it on tv tonight.Now down to everything else,as for Donna there has been no change.She is still in crittical condition.Cassidy is also about the same.The results from the blood work should be back Monday so we will know more then what will be next for her.We will be going to tuscaloosa tomorrow to make plans for Jims funeral.As soon as everything is finalized,Iwill post it on the web site and it will be put in the newspaper.Once again A BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED IN THE RIDE.Iprobably will not update again until monday afternoon,and hopefully Ishould have a lot more information on the conditions of Cassidy and Donna.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT!!! SEAN

Friday, May 20, 2005 8:10 PM CDT

Good evening everybody!To start Donna is doing a little better.She is nodding her head to our questions and responding a little better to commands. She is by no means out of the woods yet,but it was great to see an improvement from yesterday.Cassidy's counts dropped so they are checking her for infection(blood work).If the blood work comes back negative, she will receive a boost(the rest of her stem cells that she has left).The doctors are not concerned and say that she is doing great.Cassidy's charity ride is tommorow and Cade and myself will be attending.We hope to see everyone there.GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT. SEAN

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:02 PM CDT

Good evening everyone. Just a quick update,Cassidy's counts dropped a littlt,so they are going to double her GCSF(medicine that helps white counts).She is actually doing good.She is not hooked up to anything in the day time and gets up and plays a lot.She gets hooked up at night for TPN (MEAT AND POTATOES).As for Donna,she's about the same.There trying to ween her off the ventilator,which is a good sign.Iwant to give a special thanks to my aunts(Belinda and Vickie)who have helped me and Suzie this week with the kids.It's so nice to have family that will come on the spur of the moment.I also want to thank all of the other family members and friends who who have called and came by to support us during this diffucult time we are facing.The support and prayers mean so much to our family as well as Suzies brother(Mike)family.Looks like I will be giving the updates for a while,and I will do my very best to pass along as much information on Cassidy and Donna as I can.My cell phone is always open to anyone who wishes to call day or night(205-349-7037)to check on Donna and Cassidy.Please continue to pray for Cassidy and Donna to both have a full recovery. Sean

Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:43 AM CDT

Good morning! Sorry we haven't updated in a while, but for those of you who haven't heard Suzie's mother,father and Cade were involved in a tragic car accident.Suzies father parrished and her mother is in crittical condition with life threatening injurys. Cade escaped unhurt. Cassidy is still doing good and hopefully we might get out the first of the week.We have a lot going on so we will try to keep everyone updated as much as possible.Cassidys charity ride is still on for Sat.the 21st at the moose lodge.Reg. starts at 11,ride starts at12.Food and prizes will be given away after the ride.Thanks for your continued support during this terrible times we are facing.Sean

Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:40 PM CDT

Well there's not much to tell tonight. We are still in the hospital. Our counts did come up a little just not enough for us to get to leave. Dr. Crawford said maybe at the beginning of the week we can get out of here. We are not getting our hopes up this time. We are just going to wait patiently until it happens. We hope everyone has a good weekend. God Bless The Tierce's

Friday, May 13, 2005 8:29 AM CDT

Good morning. We consinder ourselves not to be supersticious,but today is friday the 13th.To get to the point we will not be leaving today.Cassidys counts dropped,so they want to keep us a couple more days.This is nothing to be concerned about and is pretty routine for what her body has been through.Hopefully we will be out of here by the end of the weekend.Sorry to give the false news yesterday,but as you can all see things can change in a hurry.Please continue to pray for Cassidy and hopefully we will see everyone real soon.

Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:28 AM CDT

Good morning! Sorry that we are late updating,but little miss priss played on the computor till after midnight(isn't that just wonderful).Her counts are continuing to rise and she seems to be feeling better and better each day.(In her case afternoon because she sleeps till then).Hopefully they will take her off the rest of her antibiotics today,and word has it if she continues on the track she's on,this time next week we will waking up in our apartment.EXCUSE ME BUT THE DOCTORS JUST CAME IN AND WE WILL BE LEAVING TOMMMMMORRROWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They said she is doing good and there is no reason for us to stay here because all she is getting is medicine by mouth. So with that being said,PRAISE GOD,THANKS TOOOOOO EVERYONE FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AND PRAYERS.I could continue to write on forever,butit will take us the rest of the day to get all of these gifts and cards packed up so we love yall and THANK YOU JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:35 PM CDT

HURRAY! MY COUNTS DOUBLED TODAY AND THINGS ARE DEFINATLY LOOKING UP. THEY TOLD ME I MIGHT GET TO GO TO THE APARTMENT IF I WILL START TAKING ALL MY MEDICINE BY MOUTH AND IF MY COUNTS KEEP COMING UP LIKE THEY ARE. I HATE TAKING MEDICINE BUT MOMMY AND DADDY ARE TRYING EVERYTHING TO MAKE ME TAKE IT. I DID FINALLY TAKE SOME TODAY BUT IT DIDN'T MAKE ME VERY HAPPY I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY MOMMY CAN'T PUT IT IN MY MACHINE LIKE THE NURSES BUT SHE SAID SHE CAN'T AND IF I WANT TO GET OUT IF THE HOSPITAL I WILL HAVE TO TAKE IT BY MOUTH. YUCK!!! THEY DID STOP A COUPLE MORE OF MY MEDICINE'S TODAY AND IF MY COUNTS ARE UP MORE AGAIN TOMORROW THEY WILL PROBABLY TAKE ME OFF ALL MY ANTIBIOTICS. YEA!! PLEASE CONTINUE THE PRAYERS BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE REALLY WORKING. GOD BLESS! CASSIDY

Monday, May 9, 2005 10:18 PM CDT

My counts came up a little more today. My doctors have stopped a couple more of my medicine's but I have not felt real good all day. They had to give me some of my pain medicine a couple of times and that helped a little but mainly I have just felt like laying around watching T.V. Aunt Vickie came out and sat with me for a little while tonight so that mommy and daddy could have a little break. She watched the care bear movie with me. I really liked it. She made some homemade bread for me to try but I still don't feel like eating so I told mommy she could have it and she said it was really good and when I feel like eating again I need to try it because she knows that I will like it. Please continue to pray for my friend devin's mommy and daddy and also for me. Hopefully I will get to get out of the hospital soon so that I can see everybody. I miss all of you! Cassidy

Sunday, May 8, 2005 9:15 PM CDT

Hey! We just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidy's counts moved up a little more. They also took her off the morphine pump today. She will still be able to get pain medicine as she needs it but she is well enough that they do not feel she will need it around the clock anymore. Well today is mothers day so memaw and poppy brought Cade so that we could spend a little time with him and they could spend a little time with Cassidy. Tonight We would like to ask everyone to say a special prayer for our friends Ricky and Dawn their son Devin lost his battle with cancer yesterday. He also had medullablastoma and was on the same protocal as Cassidy. This is really an aweful diease and we have been really fortunate to have been winning our battle but when things like this happens it really opens are eyes to what really can happen and does everyday. I hope one day no one will lose their battle and they will find a cure for all cancers. so for all the moms who are reading this give your kids an extra hug and kiss and say a prayer for all the moms who have lost a child. I hope everyone had a great mother's day and God Bless

Saturday, May 7, 2005 9:41 PM CDT

I have had a really good day! Mommy and daddy said that my counts came up a little bit today. Dr. Crawford is really pleased with everything right now and he said it's just a matter of time before my counts really start coming up. I even got up and made some of my colored salt jars. I want to wish all the mommies who check on me a happy mother's day! Cassidy

Friday, May 6, 2005 11:15 PM CDT

Well Dr. Crawford was right Cassidy's white count dropped again today but they seem to think that she is right on track and her counts should really start coming up soon. She had a really good day today she has been up playing off and on all day lots of coloring, painting,making colored salt and bathing her toy cat. She still gets tired easily and has to stop and rest alot but at least she is getting up some now. We wanted to thank everyone who has been sending e-mails Cassidy really enjoys us reading them to her everyday. We hope everyone has a great weekend and hopefully we will have even better news tomorrow.

Thursday, May 5, 2005 10:59 PM CDT

We have great news Cassidy's white blood count doubled today! Praise the Lord! Dr. Crawford came through this morning and said everything was looking good but he said not to be surprised if her counts drop again before they really start coming up but at least for now we feel we are moving in the right direction. Cassidy spent most of the day watching TV and sleeping. Aunt Seazon and Aunt Bev came to visit tonight and I think they did alot of playing while they were here. They even brought Cassidy her mother's day present from Weasel and she really liked that. She also wanted me to thank Luci, Aunt Bev, and Aunt Seazon for the presents they gave her. After they left Cassidy had her nurse Shannon, daddy and I all down in the floor making colored salt jars with her. She is back in the bed now but she is still playing with her cat toy she got here at the hospital for doing most of the things that she has to do everyday. Hopefully tomorrow we will have more good news but until then we want to thank everyone for all. the prayers and support. The Tierce's

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 9:45 PM CDT

Cassidy day was about the same as yesterday.She still is not wanting to get up. We made her play with the physical therapist some so she wasn't to happy with us. She took a long nap this afternoon and while she slept they gave her red medicine(blood).So when she got up she felt a little better and colored some. Keshia one of her nurses brought her a spongebob coloring book so we had to color in it.Tonight she is saying that her tummy is hurting so they gave her some extra pain medicine and hopefully it will stop in just a little bit so that she can get some sleep. We hope everyone has a good night and a great day tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 9:08 PM CDT

Cassidy didn't start her day out as good today but of course they kept coming in and waking her up earlier than she really wanted to get up. She took a good long nap this afternoon and woke up that time feeling better. We tried everything to get her up today but she just didn't want too.She did play in the bathtub tonight for a little while and we were glad that she did. They said the more we can get her up and moving the better she will be.We are still just waiting on her counts to come up. Cassidy wanted me tell mr. Crosby that she really liked the picture you sent her.It made her smile. We hope everyone has a good night and thanks once again for all the prayers and support.

Monday, May 2, 2005 10:31 PM CDT

Cassidy started her day really early for her she got up at 6:00am. She went a a scavenger hunt with Mrs. Jennifer from child life. She is having a much better day she only got sick a couple of times. She took a long nap this afternoon and then got up this evening and made crafts with MeMaw and Poppy. Scarlett and her mom and dad were so sweet they came to visit Cassidy while they were here at clinic and then brought us back supper from Applebees. We took it to our apartment to eat it and play with Cade. Thank you so much we really enjoyed it. Cassidy is pretty tired tonight it's only 10:30 and she is already in the bed. We are still praying that her counts will start coming up soon the doctors seem to think it could happen any day now. We just have to wait and see. Good Night! The Tierce's

Monday, May 2, 2005 6:12 AM CDT

Cassidy had a pretty good day yesterday of course she slept all day. She had wanted to do sand art the night before at about midnight and I told her we would have to wait until morning so she got up about 6:30 ready to play and then went back to sleep around 10:30 and slept until 8:30pm and then got up and colored and played until 2:00am. Cassidy had me cut the rest of her hair off yesterday because she said she was tired of it itching her. I know it has to feel better because there had been alot in the bed with her and we were having to change the bed and her clothes all the time. Her counts are still dropping but she seems like she feels better and that makes us feel better. We hope everyone has a good day. Thanks for the continued prayers and support. The Tierce's

Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:04 PM CDT

Cassidy had a better day her counts are still dropping but since they have gotten her pain under control she is tolerating it much better. She had several visitors today,she colored a little bit and tonight she even got up and played with Lindsey on the computer. She still is very weak and doesn't do anything to long but it's improvement.Her doctor said that she was very proud of how she is handling everything and hopefully her counts will start to come up about the middle of next week. Please continue to keep her in your prayers because we truely believe that is what is helping Cassidy the most. God Bless and have a good night.

Friday, April 29, 2005 9:58 PM CDT

Hey everyone! We just wanted to update everyone on how Cassidy is doing. She has not had a fever since yesterday morning and since they have started her on the morphine pump it seems to have controlled her pain of course she is sleeping all the time but that is o.k. When she got up this afternoon she seemed like she felt a little better she even tried to color a little bit. Cassidy would like to thank the Alabama baseball team for the autographed shirts,hats baseball and even the small duck they sent to her and Cade. We would also like to thank one of our relatives who lives in Birmingham for getting Cassidy a autographed hat signed by Gene Stallings while he was in town doing a charity golf tournament for rise. We have been over whelmed by all the support we have recieved during this and would like to tell everyone thank you. Cassidy has recieved numerous cards and gifts and she enjoys everything. We are currently putting all the cards on her walls to help decorate the room. The nurses have said that it is the best decorated room they have seen. Please continue to keep her in your prayers because we still have a long way to go but we are just taking it one day at a time.

Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:31 PM CDT

Hey everyone! We just wanted to give everyone a quick update.Cassidy had a very rough night and morning. She ran high fevers and was very nauseated. Our biggest problem right now is that she has mucositis and cannot swallow anything so therefore she cannot take tylenol to bring her fevers down and there are no IV drugs made to bring fevers down, so we have to do it the old fashion way with cold towels. As you can only imagine how well she likes that. They are trying their best to just keep her comfortable until her counts start coming up. They keep telling us that all this is normal when your counts get as low as hers are right now.They started her on a morphine pump this afternoon and she has seemed to have a better afternoon and evening. She is still nauseated but so far we haven't spiked a fever again. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. She is having a very rough time but hopefully it won't last too long. The Tierce's

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:16 PM CDT

It's a little after 9 and Cassidy is sleeping.She has had a pretty tough day. She's been itching real bad and has been very nausiated. She is a tuff little cookie and the things she has been through,it's just amazing how she's handling things.They have got her on an enormous amount of meds.(for pain,itching,and vomiting).Overall she is doing a great job and needs all the support she can get.It's been truly amazing how many cards,e-mails,phone calls and visitors we have received over the past few weeks.Hopefully over the next week or so things will start to get better.We knew before we started this,that we would have good days and bad,but I honestly think that the bad days are fixin to come to an end pretty soon.So until tomorrow God bless yall and we love each and everyone of you who has helped us through this journey. GOOD NIGHT! SEAN AND SUZIE

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:20 PM CDT

Cassidy is still feeling pretty yucky! They changed several of her medicine's today. They are trying to make her as comfortable as possible. They said she will probably feel bad for the next few days but everything that she is going through is to be expected. We just have to wait it out and let her stem cells have time to engraph. She is getting some red medicine (blood) right now and that always makes her feel better. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. Sean, Suzie and Cassidy

Monday, April 25, 2005 11:24 PM CDT

I am sorry I haven't updated before now but I have not felt good all day. I have started having a fever so they had to start me on antibiotics but my blood cultures have not grown anything to show that I have an infection. I have also developed a rash that itches alot so they are giving me alot of benadryl. I also am still having to take my pain medicine for my headaches and my nausea medicine so I really have slept alot today. Mommy said that I have already gotten back into my hospital routine because it's 11:30 and now I am ready to color and watch movies.They started me back on my nutrition today because I really don't feel like eating right now except for my candy.Mommy and daddy said everything that I am going through right now is just to be expected and that I will feel much better in a few days. Well I hope everyone has a good night and please continue to keep in your prayers. Cassidy

Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:24 PM CDT

Good evening everybody!Just to let everyone know there's not a lot of change,I'm still doing good,I've been alittle sick,and been running a small fever.All of this is expected due to my chemo and my counts being so low.Idon't have much of an appetite but I'm trying to eat.I've been watching a LOT of movies, and coloring a lot.Hopefully my counts will start to come up over the nextcouple of weeks(10to14 days).I'm really ready to get out of this place(even though I can snap my fingers and get whatever I want).So until tomorrow,keep in touch because Ilove for Mom and Dad to read me my e-mails and thanks for all the support and prayers. I LOVE YALL CASSIDY

Saturday, April 23, 2005 6:19 PM CDT

Just a quick note to let everybody know that Cassidy is still doing good. She had to get platelets this morning because hers have gotten so low but that was expected,for all of you who have been keeping up with her you already know that has been a problem in the past. She is still tired but she did get up today to make her colored salt jars. We have been watching alot of movies,animal planet, and spongebob today. We hope everybody has a good night. The Tierce Family

Friday, April 22, 2005 7:33 PM CDT

We just wanted to give a quick update and let everyone know that Cassidy is still doing really good. She only has gotten sick once today and she even got up and did a few activity's today. She still gets pretty tired but that is expected especially since her blood count's are really dropping. Papa T came up today and stayed with Cassidy so that we could spend a little time with Cade and he said that they had a real good time. He even came up with a way to make her mask that she has to wear when she goes out in the hall a little more comfortable. Cassidy is really enjoying all the cards she has been getting we put them all up on her walls. Cassidy wanted me to tell everyone thank-you for the cards and gifts she has been receiving and also the e-mails she really enjoy's reading all of them. We hope everyone has a good weekend. The Tierce Gang

Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:42 PM CDT

Sorry we are late updating, but Mrs.Fulmer and Coach Duke came to visit,so we went to eat.We are finished with stem cell and now we just wait for her cells to engraph(start reproducing).Cassidy was pretty sick today, but she is still doing great.She is playing in the bathtub as I write.Things will probably get a little tougher over the next few days(her counts are falling pretty quick).But over all so far she is doing an amazing job.The doctors and nurses can't beleive how well she is doing.Once again we want to thank everyone for coming to visit and all the cards and prayers we have received so far.The doctors,nurses,and the whole staff at childrens hospital have a God given talent to do what they do and we are very blessed to have them so close by.Until tomorrow please continue to pray for Cassidy because we know God is listening. Good night and God bless you all. THE TIERCE FAMILY

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:35 PM CDT

We just wanted to let everyone know that we are through with the transplant for today. Cassidy is still doing good but she is really tired. They will do another transplant tomorrow to finish up and then we will just have to wait for it to graft. Please continue to keep her in your prayers because she still has a long way to go. Thanks for all the love and support you have already showed our family. The Tierce Family

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:39 PM CDT

YEAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! MRI HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE HER LAST ONE IN FEBUARY. TRANSPLANT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW AND THURSDAY. (IT WILL BE OVER 2 DAYS DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF CELLS SHE WILL BE RECEIVEING).THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME UP TODAY AND ALL THE PRAYERS. WE ARE STILL A LONG WAY FROM HOME BUT WE ARE A LOT CLOSER THAN WE WERE.PLEASE CONTINUE TO REMEMBER CASSIDY IN YOUR PRAYERS. UNTIL TOMORROW GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT.

Monday, April 18, 2005 5:08 PM CDT

Hey! I just wanted to let everybody know that I had a pretty restful day. My counts are starting to drop from the chemo that I have been taking so I am starting to be more tired but so far I am still not sick. I only have two more bathes today and then tomorrow I get to go back to just one a day. I am going to have a MRI tomorrow around lunch time. They just want to check and see what is going on with my brain tumor. I have not had an MRI since Feb.1st. Hopefully it will be completly gone this time. Mom and Dad will write and let everyone know as soon as they get the results. Please continue to keep me in you prayers. Cassidy

Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:38 PM CDT

Just wanted to let yall know,I'm done with chemo.Hopefully I will never have to take it again.Mom and dad told me that I will probably be getting sick over the next few days,but thats ok,because I know once this is over,it will be all down hill.I'm still feeling great but a little tired.Thanks for all the prayers,cards,and gifts during my visit this time.I hope to get to see everyone soon.GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND I LOVE YOU CASSIDY TIERCE

Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:45 PM CDT

One more day!!!!!!! HOPEFULLY TOMORROW WILL BE HER LAST CHEMO TREATMENT EVER.She is still doing WONDERFUL.She is still eating,playing,and has her SASSY attitude.The chemo effects have not taken there toll yet,but you never know,she might breeze right on through this.Cassidy is a living miracle,so it just goes to show you,that the good lord above is listening to all our prayers and can make anything happen.So please remember Cassidy in your prayers because we know he's listening.Until tomorrow GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT. THE TIERCE FAMILY

Friday, April 15, 2005 7:06 PM CDT

Good evening everyone.We are finished with our 4th day of chemo and only 2 more days left.It's just amazing how good she is doing. Cassidy has lost a little energy, but her spirit and appetite is still going STRONG.We are now having to give her 3 baths a day due to the chemo she is getting now,so she doesn't like that to much but other than that she is fine.Cade came up last night (he can't come to the room because of his age)so they just waived at each other through the window.(it was very heartbreaking).We want to thank everyone for the cards and gifts she has received.Also a special thanks to the PRAYER WARRIORS for that awesome poem about Cassidy.If you come to visit,the poem is hanging on the front of the door.(if you don't get to come, we will post it on her website later).So until tomorrow please keep Cassidy in your prayers,GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT! THE TIERCE FAMILY

Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:21 PM CDT

3DAYS DOWN AND 3 TO GO!Our little solider is doing WONDERFUL! The doctor just left and said Cassidy is doing ABOVE AVERAGE this far into her treatment.We still have a long way to go yet and probably rough days ahead of us,but for now prayers are being answered and we are all doing just fine.So until tomorrow GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOODNIGHT.Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:11 PM CDT

Hey everyone.We had another GREAT day.We have 2 days of chemo behind us and only 4 more days of treatment left.Cassidy is still playing and eating and so far no problems.She had a lot of company today and really enjoyed playing with everyone.Thats about all that has happened today, so we will continue to update everyone as much as possible on Cassidys condition.Thanks to everyone for all the love and support that you have given to our family through this,and please continue to pray for Cassidy as she continues her battle to beat this disease.GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND GOODNIGHT.Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:39 PM CDT

Cassidy had her 1st rd. of chemo today and did GREAT.She has been up and playing and having a good time.She also has been eating (2 burritos,icees,rice crispies and lots of candy.)She also has her water gun loaded for intruders(THE NURSES HA! HA!)We know we still have a long way to go yet but so far we have had a great day.We will update again tommorow so until then thanks for everything and please keep Cassidy in your thoughts and prayers.Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Monday, April 11, 2005 7:32 PM CDT

HEY EVERYONE.Just wanted to update everyone on whats going on.We are back at childrens preparing to go through our transplant.Our chemo will start in the morning and will continue for six days.The first 3 days will be 4 hrs.and the last 3 will be 4.5 hrs.After that she will have 2 days of rest. The transplant will take place on the 20th.Today she has had a great time playing and seeing all the nurses.We are in room 663.We can have visitors as long as you are not sick or have been around anyone that has been.Cassidy can receive cards but no live plants or fruits.This will be a long process over the next two or three months so please continue to pray for Cassidy and our family.Cassidy has come a long way since last August and with Gods help and everyone else who have supported us through this long ordeal, we will all get through this together just like we have in the past.We will try to update the website daily on her condition.THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR ALL THE HELP AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 8:53 AM CDT

Hey! We just wanted to let everyone know what was going on . Cassidy had a kidney test on Monday and she had her new cental line put in yesterday. Everything went great no problems at all this time. We are scheduled to be admitted on Monday April 11th at 10:00 to get started with the stem cell transplant. She will start getting chemo on Tuesday and will get it daily for six days and then she will have two days of rest and then the actual transplant on April 20th. Please keep her in your prayers because this will be very hard on her and she will need all the prayers and support she can get. We are leaving to go to the beach tommrow and hopefully the weather will coperate. We decided to take one more trip before we have to spend so much time in the hospital.If you have any free time to look on the computer check out Scarlett web page. Their is a very cute bunny and dog at the hospital. I wonder who they could be. For those of you who don't know Scarlett is one of Cassidy's friends who also has cancer so they have been battling their disease's together. I will not update again until Monday. We hope everyone has a great weekend. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:25 PM CST

We hope everybody had a Happy Easter we sure did we hunted eggs and then we went to church and to eat at memaw and poppy's house. After we got back home we spent the rest of the day hunting eggs and eating candy. We have had a good week I got to go to Shirley's two days to play with my friend Gracie and we went to the zoo yesterday and I got to go to the movies with coach Duke this afternoon. As you can see I am having a great spring break. We still haven't heard anything from the hospital so we know I will get to spend the rest of spring break at home. Yea! Thanks again for all the prayers and support. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:30 PM CST

WE ARE HOME!!!! The picc line worked fine this morning so they let us leave. We will be on antibiotics at home now until March 28th. They have not updated our schedule for stem cell yet but we will let everyone know as soon as we know. Cassidy had a great night last night she was up until about 1:00 throwing grapes and squirting everyone with a water gun. She was really bouncing off the walls but everyone was glad to see her feeling so good because until this visit they hadn't seen the way Cassidy really acts she has always been really sick when we have been there. Cassidy went by school as soon as we got into town because she wanted to see all her friends. Everyone sure was glad to see her. She will be going back to school in the morning and hopefully she will get to go the rest of this week and then she will be out next week for spring break. Thanks for all the prayers and support. Sean,Suzie, Cassidy and Cade

Monday, March 21, 2005 4:57 PM CST

Cassidy has had another good day. She got her picc line in this morning and it went really well. Hopefully if everything goes well we will get to come home tommrow. The hospital had a carnival here this afternoon so Cassidy got to go to that and she got to see her friend Scarlett. Who came up to see her while she was here. Cassidy really enjoyed seeing her even though she was still a little sleepy from her procedure. We will update again tommrow hopefully next from home.

Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:51 PM CST

Cassidy has had a great day!! So far her blood cultures have come back clear this weekend so we should be getting our picc line tommrow. They said if everything stays as good as it is now maybe we can come home in the next couple of days(we sure hope so). Please continue to keep us in your prayers.Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:32 AM CST

Cassidy had to have her port removed yesterday because that was where the infection was coming from. While she was asleep they put in a couple of IV's because her veins blow so easy. We hope that they will last until we can get our picc line. They couldn't do the picc line when they took her port out because the infection has already moved into her blood stream. Therefore we will be here at least ten more days recieving antibiotics. They hope her blood cultures will be clean by Monday or Tuesday so that they can go ahead and put the picc line in. Cassidy is doing great you wouldn't even know that anything was wrong with her. The doctors and nurses have been amazed with her because they have never really seen Cassidy feeling this well. She is keeping all of us busy because she feels way to good to just sit in her room she is keeping us running up and down the halls.Please continue to keep her in your prayers. Suzie, Sean ,Cassidy and Cade

Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:37 PM CST

Sorry we have not updated in a while but our computer was being worked on. We all had a wonderful time at Disney last week. The weather was nice all but one day. Cassidy got to meet tons of characters and has a million autographs! We will have plenty of pictures soon!

Cassidy is currently in the hospital receiving antibiotics for an infection. She is feeling great and has been bouncing off the walls today. We will update again soon.

Friday, March 4, 2005 8:28 AM CST

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have been going to school everyday and counting down the days until Disney World. One day left tommrow is the big day annd I am so excited. We have been busy getting everything ready all week.I hope everybody has a great week next week and I will write again when we get back. Thanks for all the prayers and support. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:55 PM CST

We just wanted everyone to know that Cassidy's still doing great! She is still going to school everyday and pretty much doing whatever she wants too. Magic Moments has given Cassidy a trip to disney world and we have been busy getting it set up. We will be going March 6th thru March 12th. Cassidy is very excited and we will be staying at animal kingdom and for all of you who know Cassidy you know how much she loves animals. She also is excited because her friends Reagan,Kamryn,Meagan and Braden are also going with us. We also wanted to let everyone know that we have finally made our decision. We have met with all the doctors and talked with several people and we feel that the best possible treatment for Cassidy with the best chance for beating her type cancer is going to be stem cell transplant. We will begin setting that up as soon as we get back from disney world so right now we cannot give you a date but we will let everyone know as soon as we can. We will follow up her transplant with low dose radiation. Please continue praying for Cassidy because she has a very tough road ahead of her but first we want her to just have a great time at disney world while she is doing so well. Thanks again for all your prayers and support. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy,Cade and Weasel

Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:43 PM CST

Hey! Just wanted everyone to know everything is still going great. Cassidy is still in school and enjoying it everyday. We have some big decisions to make coming up in the near future. We had a big meeting with the doctors yesterday and we basically have two choices.It will either be high doses of radiation or straight to stem cell because of her counts. WE will be taking the next couple of weeks to to determine which path we need to take.Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers and please continue to pray and support the decision that we make in the next couple of weeks.Sean, Suzie,Cassidy ,Cade and Weasel

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:24 PM CST

I just wanted everyone to know that I had a great time at school yesterday. Mommy came and ate lunch with me and then in the afternoon we had our valentine party and it was great. I had to read all my cards again tonight and I got lots and lots of candy. I even got an angel named cassidy and it's spelled just like my name and a big balloon dog. I hope everyone had a great valentine's day.
I will write again soon. GOD BLESS! Cassidy, Cade, Sean and Suzie

Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:31 PM CST

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!! I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT OUR PARTY AT SCHOOL. I DID ALL MY CARDS BY MYSELF AND I MADE ALL MY FRIENDS A LITTLE PRIZE TOO. I EVEN MADE MOMMY GO TO THE STORE AND BUY COOKIES TO TAKE TO MY FRIENDS ALSO. I HAVE HAD A GREAT WEEKEND. WE DIDN'T DO ALOT AND IT WAS KINDA NICE TO BE AT HOME. MY NEW CHURCH WAS DEDICATED TODAY AND I GOT TO HELP SET OUT THE CAKE SQUARES. I LOVED BEING ABLE TO HELP AND I LOVE MY NEW CHURCH BUILDING TOO. WELL I HOPE EVERYBODY HAS A GREAT VALENTINE'S DAY.CASSIDY,CADE,SEAN AND SUZIE

Wednesday, February 9, 2005 7:57 AM CST

I didn't make counts again this week. Mr. Richard called this morning and said they were having a meeting with the tumor board today and they are going to present my case and they will get back with us in the next couple of days to let us know what we will be doing next. I also went to see Dr. Mestre and he is changing my medicine again to see if will help with my vomiting also he is going to schedule another test at children's hospital soon. They are trying to find some reason for my vomiting because the don't feel like it's coming from my tumor anymore. I am still going to school everyday and I love it... I even get mad at my mommy when she checks me out early to go to my doctors appointments. I had another very busy weekend I went to two birthday parties saturday and my cousins Megan and Braden were here so we played alot.Thank you again for all the prayer's and support for me and my family. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy and Cade

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 10:09 PM CST

We went this morning and got the IGIV and everything went well it just took most of the day. The best part was that I got to see my friend Scarlett she was also there getting medicine so we got to watch TV together all though we each had our own TV's. I know my Aunt Teresa updated everyone yesterday because we stayed in Birmingham due to my early appt. today. We just wanted everyone know that we appreciate all the thoughts,prayers and E-mails. WE know GOD is truly working a miracle with us but we are not at the end of the road yet so please keep praying for me and my family. We still have a long way to go. They will re-check my count on Monday to see if I can start my chemo again in the next couple of weeks. I also have an appointment next Tuesday with Dr. Mestre a GI doctor to see why I am still vomiting. I would also like to give a special thank you to Mr. Thomley for all the pictures he took of us and helped us put them on my web site. We really appreciate the time he spent with us and all the work he put into it. If you want to see all the pictures he took of us go back to the home page and look under my links for Crosby thomley to view the whole photo session.We love you and GOD Bless you all for caring and praying for my family. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy,Cade and Weasel

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 8:00 PM CST

Suzie asked me to update the webpage for her because she knew that many of you would be checking tonight. Cassidy's MRI looked very good! The doctor said that it was questionable as to whether disease is still there. Cassidy goes back to the hospital in the morning for an IGIV drug which should help boost her immune system. They will check her counts again next week to see if she can resume chemo...since that treatment is doing so well. Suzie will update again tomorrow.

Keep up the prayers! They are working!
Teresa Casner

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:36 PM CST

I just wanted to let everyone know that my doctors appointment went really well. They didn't check my blood counts today so I didn't have to get pinched or anything. I got to play with Angela and Clay and she took me up to see Ms. Beverly while mommy and daddy and Mrs Sherry talked with my doctors. I am schduled to have an MRI and a bone marrow biopsey next Tuesday Feb.1 at 10:00. They will also check my blood counts at this time. The MRI is to check and see what my disease is doing and the biopsey is to see if my body has built up antibodies that are attacking my platelets. They will not decide what to do next until they get these results back. We will let everyone know as soon as we find out something but for now we have another week at home.

Friday, January 21, 2005 11:53 PM CST

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know I went to the circus tonight and I had a great time. I got to sit with one of my doctors(Nicole Bryant) and one of my nurses(Hollie) they were sitting closer than mom and dad so I could see alot better. I seen elephants, tigers,horses and even dogs. I also seen lots of clowns. We got there early so we got to go on the floor and watch them warm up it was really neat. Cade, Landon and Luke loved it too. Landon and Luke are two of my best friends in fact I get to go to Landon's birthday party tomrrow at the bowling alley. I know we said that we wouldn't update the page again until after the meeting with my doctors but I had so much fun tonight I wanted to tell everybody about it. My mom and dad also said that they made a mistake and my doctors appt. is Tuesday Jan. 25 at 3:00 instead of Wed. to discuss my alternate treatment. Goodnight everyone. Thanks for the e-mails and God Bless you! Cassidy

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:03 PM CST

Cassidy's platelet count is still not high enough to start her next round of chemo. They are going to have us come in next Wednesday to discuss an alternate treatment plan. Cassidy had a great time in tennessee with her cousins she went to see sesame street live on stage,went to Braden's birthday party,rode in a horse and buggy,went to a 3D movie and went to playworld down under. As you can see we had a very busy weekend but I think everybody had a good time. Cassidy is still going to school everyday and enjoying having a normal routine. She is even going to bed a little bit earlier now. Cassidy is still enjoying reading her e-mails everyday so we would like to thank you for all the e-mails and prayers and if you would like to call her please feel free to call her at home. We will not update again until after we talk with her doctors on Wednesday Jan.26 at 3:oo. Please continue to keep her in your prayers because she still has a very long road ahead of her. Thank you again for all your support and God Bless everyone. Sean,Suzie,Cassidy,Cade and Weasel

Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:04 AM CST

We just wanted to let everyone know that Cassidy didn't make counts again this week so we will be at home another week. They are going to check her again next Monday. Cassidy is doing great she is still going to school everyday and she is really enjoying it. We are going to Tennessee this weekend for her cousin Braden's birthday party and she is really looking forward to it. I will probably won't update again until next week after we know about her counts. Have a great weekend and God bless everyone who has been checking on us.

Sunday, January 9, 2005 6:07 PM CST

I just wanted to let everybody know that I have been doing really great. I went to school Thursday and Friday and I plan to go back tommrow. Weasel and I spent the whole weekend with my friend Reagan and we had a great time. I was having so much fun I really didn't want to come home but tonight is a school night so I had too.

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 4:45 PM CST

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I HOPE EVERYONE'S YEAR HAS STARTED OUT GREAT. WELL I HAD TO GO BACK TO THE HOSPITAL TODAY AND WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GET TO START MY NEXT ROUND OF TREATMENT BUT MY PLATELET COUNT IS STILL NOT HIGH ENOUGH. SO WE GOT TO COME BACK HOME FOR ANOTHER WEEK. THEY ARE GOING TO CHECK MY COUNTS AGAIN ON MONDAY AND IF THEY ARE OK THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE ME COME IN ON WEDNESDAY.

Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:29 PM CST

Hi everyone! First of all I wanted to let everyone know I had a great christmas. The best part was being able to spend it with all my family and friends. Santa was really good to me and Cade this year. I have really enjoyed playing with Weasel even though she likes to chew on everything especially me. Santa brought her bones and chew toys but she likes everything she is not suposed to have better. I had to go to go back to the hospital yesterday to get some red medicine (blood) everything went just fine but it took all day. They even took my noodle back out when they were through because I really have been trying to eat more. I have to go back next Wednesday and if my counts are high enough we will start my next round of chemo. I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and to thank everyone for all of your prayers and suport this year. Please continue the prayers as we go into next year because we still have a long way to go. God Bless everyone! Cassidy, Cade, Sean and Suzie

Monday, December 27, 2004 10:15 PM CST

HI EVERYONE! WELL I WENT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL THIS MORNING THINKING I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO STAY FOR A WEEK BUT AFTER THEY TOOK MY RED MEDICINE (BLOOD) OUT WE FOUND OUT THAT MY COUNTS STILL WERE NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO START MY NEXT ROUND SO THEY LET US COME BACK HOME. I WILL HAVE TO GO BACK ON WEDNESDAY TO GET RED MEDICINE (BLOOD) AGAIN BUT I WILL NOT HAVE TO STAY. I PROMISED THEM THAT I WOULD START EATING MORE SO THEY EVEN LEFT MY NOODLE OUT AND THEY TOOK ME OFF SEVERAL OF MY MEDICINE'S AND JUST GAVE ME ONE TO TAKE BEFORE I GO TO BED TO SEE IF IT HELPS ME NOT TO GET SICK IN THE MORNINGS WHEN I WAKE UP.

Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:39 PM CST

HEY EVERYBODY I AM FINISHED WITH MY HARVEST. THEY GOT WHAT THEY NEEDED AND WE ARE GOING HOME TO GET WEASEL AND CADE.I WILL GET TO STAY AT HOME THROUGH CHRISTMAS SO SANTA CAN COME TO MY HOUSE AND NOT THE HOSPITAL. MOM AND DAD SAID WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO THE HOSPITAL THE MONDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS TO START MY MEDICINE AGAIN [CHEMO].I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS. I WILL TALK TO EVERYONE WHEN WE COME BACK AFTER CHRISTMAS.[WE WILL NOT UPDATE THE WEB SITE AGAIN UNTIL DEC.27TH WHEN WE ARE RE ADMITTED].SO FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON.SEAN,SUZIE, CASSIDY AND CADE

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:44 PM CST

Well it looks like we have to stay one more night and try again tommrow. Mommy said that they got right at the minimum so they would like to go one more day just to make sure they have enough. All my counts are really good so they don't have to do anything to me tonight. I can just watch my movies and do whatever I want. I will talk to ya'll tommrow when I get home.

Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:30 PM CST

We have just finished for today. They had to quit earlier than they really wanted too because the machine kept getting clots and it wouldn't work right. Mommy and daddy said that they will have to try again tommrow.I slept through most of it today and I played with playdough the rest of the time. I will have to get platlets and red medicine(blood)again tonight. I hope they get all the stem cells they need tommrow because I am ready to go home and see Weasel. I really miss him alot.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:29 PM CST

I had to go to the hospital this morning to let them get labs to see if they will be able to harvest my stem cells tommrow. Mommy said that they called this afternoon and my counts were really good so we will have to go back up in the morning at 8:00am. They will have to give me platelets and then I will have to get my catheter put back in and then they will be able to start harvesting my stem cells again. Please keep me in your prayers tommrow.

Saturday, December 11, 2004 10:12 AM CST

I got my weenie dog!!!!!! I was so excited. Mommy and daddy gave it to me early so that I will have time to play with it before I have to go back in the hospital on Dec.27th for my next treatment. She is six weeks old and very tiny. We got to go to pet supplies plus and I got to pick her out a kennel and a dish to eat and drink out of. We also got shampoo to make her smell better. Mommy let me give her a bath in the sink and then we played with her until she got tired. We put her in her kennel and that is where she slept last night. I named her Weasel.

Friday, December 10, 2004 12:11 AM CST

Hi everyone I had a real good day yesterday but we had a hard time last night. Mommy went to hook up my nutrition last night and my port would not work so she called Julie our home health nurse and she came over and tried to get it to work. She changed out my noodle and she still could not get it working so we had to go back up to the hospital.They worked with it a while and finally after two more noodles they finally got the clot out of it and got it working. We got to come back home about 3:00am. Mommy hooked up my nutrition and everything is working great now.

Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:36 PM CST

Hi everyone I am getting to come home tonight but first I have to get red medicine(blood) and platelets. So it will be very late when I get home. The bad news is they couldn't harvest enough stem cells so I will have to come back again next week to let them try again. I will come back up next Wednesday morning to have lab work done and if everything is ok I will have to come back up early Thursday morning to start all over again.

Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:29 PM CST

Hey everyone how are yall? I had to get platlets this morning and then they started to harvest my stem cells around 10:00am. They finished around 2:00pm. Every thing went great I didn't feel a thing. They didn't get enough so I will have to do this again tommrow. My mom and dad went down to clinic to visit my friend Molly she also has medulloblastoma. They said she got a great report on her MRI. It just goes to show you that GOD is listening to our prayers.Please continue to pray for me and all my friends at childrens hospital.

Monday, December 6, 2004 2:56 PM CST

It's 3:00 and we are through for the day. We didn't have a good harvest because of machine problems. They are going to try again tommrow. Hopefully everything will go alot smoother tommrow. She will be getting blood tonight and her nutrtion and that will be all.

Monday, December 6, 2004 10:12 AM CST

It is about 10:30 Monday morning and Cassidy has already had her catheter put in. She did great! We are in room 658. Sean will be giving updates on his cell phone(349-7037) We will be getting started soon on the stem cell harvest but that will be done in the room.

Sunday, December 5, 2004 6:27 PM CST

cassidy had to go to the hospital today to have blood work done. Everything is ok and we will go back up in the morning at 7:00am to be admitted. Cassidy will be put to sleep to have her temporary catheter put in. So that they
can begin to harvest her stem cells. Hopefully we will only be there Monday and Tuesday.Please continue to pray for cassidy durig this time.

Friday, December 3, 2004 10:00 AM CST

Cassidy went to school today. She was so excited about it we went for a couple of hours yesterday but I stayed with her but today she wanted to go by herself. They let her check out a library book yesterday and she thought that was great. She even reminded me this morning that she needed to take it back. Cade has been walking around the house looking for her this morning he can't figure out while she is not here. I know he will be glad to see her when she gets home.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004 9:50 AM CST

We had to go to clinic yesterday to have a blood transfusion and to get platlets because our counts had gotten really low. Cassidy did really good and was really glad that she didn't have to spend the night even though it was an all day trip. WE have to go back on Sunday to the stem cell clinic and have more lab work done if our counts are high enough we will go back up Monday to be admitted to have a temporary cathatheter put in and to harvest her stem cells on Monday and Tuesday for Stem cell transplant at a later date. We still do not know when we will start our next chemo treatment because they are waiting for her counts to come up and stay up and for her to be strong enough to handle it. They did say her infection fighting cells were high enough for her to go to school. She was really glad to hear that because she has been wanting to go and see all her friends and teachers.

Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:04 AM CST

Cassidy has been home for Thanksgiving and had a good time playing with Cade and her cousins.

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