Bret- I can’t thank you enough for sending Kateri (pronounced: kuh-teer-e) to Camp Midicha this year. She had so much fun. Reuniting with some friends from last year and making a bunch of new ones! I know that having Kateri go to camp helps her cope with the daily crap she puts up with, having this disease. Knowing there are people who are taking what God handed them and going after everything they want – not letting it stop them,…
These pictures below were take at the Clay County Fair in Spencer, Iowa. This was a very special concert because I had just started chemo for breast cancer a month earlier. My family and friends decided to go to the concert dressed like Bret so I wouldn’t feel out of place with no hair. We had shirts made that said ‘Bret’s Girls’ and on the back they said ‘Fight Like A Girl’. October is breast cancer awareness month and I…
We thanked Bret for sending Tristin to camp in June and gave him a thank you letter which I am attaching that also has some pics taken at camp. I will send those as well. Anyway Bret was so touched when he learned that Tristin was able to change his site for the very first time by himself at camp and also change site spots…that he hugged Tristin and asked him if he could send him back to camp a…
The first attached picture was taken the nite Bret and his band performed at the Wicked Moose in Rochester, MN on 12-26-11. All my co-workers surprised me ( for an early b-day February 11th ) by all chipping-in money so I could purchase a Meet and Greet with Bret that nite. I have attached the link below to view. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odNr-gBcJg Everyone knows my Pure Admiration for Bret and how much he Inspires the Very Best in me. Bret’s Determination, Drive and…
I’m a huge fan of Bret Michaels. I am a physician and the nurses call me “Dr. Bret Michaels” because I saw him in concert 6 times this year. Here are some meet and greet photos from 2010 and 2011. The picture is Jayme Hall, Bret and my cousin Julie Bigelow at Soaring eagle casino Dec 2010. The rest are Jayme Hall and my friend Mindy Kocisky who is battling non hodgkins lymphoma for he second time at Soaring eagle…
In March of 2010 I attended my first Bret Michaels concert in Green Bay Wisconsin. While I grew up in the ‘80s I had only recently become a huge fan of rock music and had especially become a follower of Bret Michaels, not only because of his music but his work on being an advocate for diabetics. It was an amazing show and my husband surprised me with a VIP pass for after the show! I couldn’t believe that I…
Grace is 8. She turned 8 last November. Who could have imagined that the normalcy that existed on her 8th birthday would change in such a profound way in just 2 months. On January 17, 2012, after her Mom made a doctor’s appointment to discuss Grace’s unexpected weight loss, she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. There were other subtle signs that appeared in the weeks prior to the diagnosis and now all the pieces started to make sense. The…
My wife Jill was told on 9-13-2011 that she had breast cancer. She is only 39 years old and from that point until now she has had two surgeries, six treatments of chemo and was getting ready for radiation when we were told that the cancer was still there. It was recommended that we go to the Ohio State breast cancer center which is three hours away, we make that trip once or twice a week. Now she has to…
The middle of my 8th grade school year I went to the doctor’s office for a checkup or so I thought. They ran a few tests and the doctor left and came back with the test results. She told my parents and I to go home and pack my bags there was a room waiting on me at the hospital and to go straight there. When I got to the hospital the nurse showed me where my room was they…