Cameron's Journey

We had to say goodbye to two wonderful therapist this month. On December 19th Linda Veldman who was Cameron's occupational therapist through TJ Samson left to go to Roanoke VA. We have been with Linda since the summer of 2006. She has truly worked to bring change and betterment to those she is around. Glasgow KY is a better community for having her with us. Today on December 29th we had to say goodbye to Leigh Anne Roden. She has been with us since October of 2007 and spent the next 14 months bringing my son into our world in ways we had never seen before. I have often referred to Leigh Anne as Cameron's 'Miracle Worker". He was always so eager to see her & would come running to his chair to see what she had planned for the day. I would sit and watch in amazement as she would have him doing things I had only dreamed that I would see him do. I have many great videos of the two of them working together and will cherish them. Cameron's Journey took a whole new pat

Cameron's fourth Christmas went by this year with peace and joy. He really wasn't into Santa and didn't want to sit in his lap. He got a new DVD player and an Animusic video that he loves. He's not into any of his other gifts. He was so good with no major meltdowns. He looks so cute in his little RJ Corman toboggan.

I received one of the greatest gifts ever for Thanksgiving this year. Let me tell you how it all began. I was contacted by a lady in Glasgow, Tami Milam, who has a 2 year old daughter named Ava. Ava had a stroke in uteri and Tami had researched Stem Cell Therapy for treating Ava. Tami came to the ARC of Barren County and spoke with us about taking Ava to Peru for stem cell treatments and the hope that they offered for her daughter to live a full and productive life. I immediately began researching the treatments and emailed them to a few of my closest friends and asked them to take a look at the information. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't overreacting to another "hope' of a cure for Cameron's autism. On Thanksgiving Day Donna Haynes told me that she had read through everything that I had sent her and had been doing more research herself. She was just as excited as I was about the treatment and gave me the best Thanksgiving gift ever, she offered to help undertake