A Thanksgiving Blessing







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 the fundraising efforts to be able to get the stem cell treatments for Cameron.

We will begin the fundraising in January to raise the money needed to get Cameron the treatments. Thanks Donna! I am very blessed to have you as my friend and so is Cameron.

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