Amy & Jake Updates

Amy & Jake ~ 8-29-13

If you read this blog with any regularity, you KNOW Amy and Jake Anders. The mom and son dynamic duo: Amy is dealing with a heart that is quite literally broken while Jake is battling brain cancer. The icing on the cake is that Jeff, husband and dad, lost his job on June 21. Good times. (If you know me in real life, you are reading this as if I am speaking and as such, you are dripping in sarcasm...if you don't know me in real life, you now know how to read this.)

A few updates:

• Amy has been medically cleared to head to the top of the list for a heart transplant.
  
• Jake is doing OK with the chemo. There have been some awful days. Cancer sucks, that's all there is to it.
  
• The other three kids are handling all of this with their usual faith, zaniness and pulling practical jokes on each other. (Nice move in the garage, Evan...) It helps that they are teenagers and as such, since the world is revolving around them, life is going on despite these larger than normal speed bumps.

Jake's T-Shirts ~ fighting cancer with humor
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Friends and family are keeping Jake amused via T-Shirts. I believe they are also keeping his mother amused. Click on the picture below to read Amy's comments about the Day 12 T-Shirt - it is quite special.

On a recent day off from chemo, Jake was captured sitting on his monkey throne wearing his monkey robe. Jake is now the proud owner of a kajillion monkeys. (His favorite animal.)

It's good thing they are all stuffed as I believe otherwise Avon, Indiana would be the place where The Planet of the Apes could come to life.

Despite it all, each day we get to see Jake with a smile on his face. It is a true testament to this family that he remains happy go lucky and I would suspect, still a pain in the behind twelve year old. Rock on, Jake!

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Hey, hey we're the Monkees,
You never know where we'll be found.
So you'd better get ready,
We may be comin' to your town.

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