Good evening,

 I just wanted to give you all a quick update on a couple of things.

 First, Gary Brittain (Megan’s Dad) and I met with some folks at the hospital yesterday, and I felt so many emotions being back up there. Walking up the stairs that lead to 4-tower, walking past the two rooms we all spent the last 3 months of Tuck’s life, seeing the smiling faces of the nurses and doctors, seeing a board that only had two rooms open, visiting clinic and seeing more familiar faces and getting more smiles and hugs, man what a day. Anyway, the real purpose of our visit was to see what the possibilities would be, both short term and long term, as far as helping other families and helping more kids in their fight against cancer. We both want to thank all of you who have given a gift in memory of Tucker or Megan, and those gifts will go so far to help the hospital provide more for kids that they would simply not be able to do without them. We still have many things to work out and a whole lot of decisions to make as far as where the funds should be directed, but I think we are off to a great start.  

 Some of our friends and family helped put on a golf tournament to help benefit Tucker last spring and I really want to put together another golf tournament, in memory of Tucker, that we will have every year, with 100% of the money, after expenses, going straight to the oncology unit at Children’s Hospital to help more children in their fight against cancer. I hope to have a location and a date by next week and I will give all of you that info as soon as I get it.

 On another note, I have heard from so many of you who have worn your “Tucker bracelet” for so many months, even years, and you want to know what to do now. The answer I will give is this, do whatever you feel like you need to do. Some of you have worn it so much that they have broken, or faded so bad it is hard to read and knowing that is so overwhelming to Court and I. But now, Tucker’s fight is over. If you want to wear it so you will never forget him, wear it. If you wear it to remember other children fighting cancer, that’s fine too. September is “Childhood Cancer Awareness “ month, and I do want to try to do a little more that month to get more people to learn that cancer does affect children. In fact, there will be 130-140 new kids diagnosed with cancer at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham alone this year. After spending 8 years in and out of treatment with Tucker, this hospital, the staff and all these kids will always have a place in our hearts.

 Continue to pray for us as we go on with our lives, and try to find out what lies in store for us. The days and nights have not gotten any easier. But, you can bet that God has been and always will be faithful to all of us.

Our greatest thanks to all of you.