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12/12 Update – A (Completely Random) Check-in From Houston, Day 1
December 13, 2008
After several days of trying to get Jamie to Houston, we were finally able to do so yesterday evening. She...
12/11 Update – Going to Houston now… Thanks to Austin.
December 11, 2008
We're relocating to St. Joe's in downtown Houston today. We've been talking about this move for a little while now,...
12/10 (late) post – Waiting for Jamie to get to Houston [by KC]
December 11, 2008
So, here's the update on Jamie. As of yesterday, she was officially accepted to St. Joseph Medical Center in Downtown...
12/8 – We’re going to Houston… that’s right, Houston.
December 8, 2008
After being particularly devastated by the news from our Plastic Surgeon, we started researching and requesting references for specialists that...
12/6 Update (Hey, that’s my lucky number, 126): The Unluckiest Possible Fucking Update Ever (Keep hope alive!!)
December 7, 2008
Sorry about the annoying headline... Sorry if you thought this blog was all about good news.... Here goes... I've been...
December 4 update (2) – What Dr. Hand Doctor said about Jamie
December 5, 2008
Well, there's nothing definitive... not that there's ever anything definitive... but what the doctor said is very encouraging... Basically, as...
December 4 update – movin’ on up! (eventually), she blisters and moves some more
December 4, 2008
Short post here. First, we're in line for the next Intermediate Care room. So, once someone in the IC is...
December 1 update – Jamie’s attitude rocks, we keep chugging along and may move to Intermediate Care soon.
December 4, 2008
So, as always, I'll start out with the good news. Jamie is likely to enter intermediate care in the next...
December 1 update – Jamie feels a bunch of pain, eats stuff (without pain)… other things happen…
December 2, 2008
Today, Jamie made a couple of big strides. First, the biggest change is that she passed her swallow test with...
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Conferences, campuses, committees, podcasts. If your audience needs to hear this, Jamie can reach them. She survived something most people can barely imagine, and she talks about it with a directness and a sense of humor that cut straight through the usual gravity of public health messaging. Audiences trust her because she has earned the right to say what she says.
She is just as comfortable delivering legislative testimony as she is headlining a university keynote or joining a panel on life after limb loss. Whatever the format, people walk away informed, disarmed, and far more likely to actually do something about it.