My friend and I raise money to send kids who have MD to summer camp. We have two weeks left and because a person who shall remain nameless backed out it's almost impossible to meet our goal, and that person hurt me and the kids, so I'm numb. If you see this please go to www.mdact.org.

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Jess

My friend James who has the biggest heart and never fails to amaze me sent this to me yesterday, and I got tearie eyed, and I had to share this. If this doesn't make you stop and think, I don't know what will.

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Jess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmHZR1FIsiY

Whenever I get tired and run down and don't listen to my body I get sick because my immunne system isn't so great. So I come home from Lourdes, France tired and runned down, andddd you guessed it - I am now sick, so I'm gonna try to chill.....I'll be around, call or IM me.

I love yall
Jess

Ok, now that I kinda caught up on my sleep, I can tell you about my trip. Everything there there is beautiful, and we had beautiful weather, which they said it usually rains. The first day I struggled{and I think everybody did}we got there and we were supose to eat lunch then go to mas, I didn't eat lunch I was still knocked out from the combination of taking sleeping medication and only sleeping three or four hours on the plane, so I went to the hotel room and took a nap{yes, you read right}. So my dad wakes me up to go what John{one of the knights of Malta}calls the bobblehead mass, and we soon found out why. The whole place{on both sides of the alter}were nodding - my dad had to wake me up for communion lol, yeah that day was a blur - I do remember going to the Grotto lol. The second day was a little better, we were all a little more awake, sadly all I can remember is the mass - I really can't remember day by day because it was kinda a world wind, we did not stop. We ether walked through or went to the Grotto every day, we had mass at the Grotto one day - it was nice, but hot. I think I had the sweetest kids ever in my group{the red group}you know me, I LOVE kids, so whenever I had a choice of hanging out with the kids or adults, I'd choose the kids lol, so I got to know them pretty well, Maddie was ALWAYS helping out, laughing, doing her thing, the greatest attitude, never would've have known she doesn't have much time left on this earth. Andrew fairly quite, kinda said back and let it soak in, but had the cutest smile and when he laughed his whole body would shake. Tomas.....I'll come back to Tomas lol. Bredan also has a smile that would make you melt, LOVES music, sang, lol, one time in mass I was sitting next to him and he went to hold my hand for the Our Father, and he's a little more spastic than I am only because of my pump, lol, so he went to grab my hand and he pops me in the face lol, he was like sorry, I was like Bredan honey, I do it all the time - I'm suprised I haven't popped you yet, he laughed I was like shhh lol, when he gets his Eco{assistive technlogy equipment}he's gonna email me. Erin ALWAYS told me hi and wave no matter what. Aarron, Chase, and Ryan were quite, so I can say too much about them except they're cute and Aarron was always in rain boots lol. Ok, to sum up Tomas lol, we were in mass, and the preist comes to give Tomas communion, and Chase and Tomas became tight, so Tomas says you forgot his - the preist says I can't, he can't have it yet lol, Tomas breaks the host in half and gives half to chase haha. Luke! Luke was my auxzilery{helper}and he's just awesome, you know is the legal advisor for the Pope to the UN, just....he's a cool dude. One night he took me on a "date" to get ice cream when my parents had the night off, and he told me he's good friends and was college roomates with Josh Blue{a comedian who has CP}when he told me I was like na huh! because he was on the MDA Telethon, and I was just crying laughing at some of the stories because his other roomate had CP too. Sunday we had mass in the underground church - 25,000 people, I'll admit I kinda paniced, but it was cool because it was in different languages. They sure love their ice cream there, everywhere I looked{by our hotel, not by the Grotto}it was like ice cream, ice cream, I can see why, that ice cream was sooo good lol.

I love yall
Jess