Hello, friends and family! Our sweet, sensitive, caring, hilarious, sports obsessed, little Jamie-boy has been going through a rough time. While we all expect the best possible outcome and are positive that his recovery will be smooth, medical expenses are building and his parents will need to take time off of work to care for him over the next few months.

Watching your ten year old son go through hospital visits, multiple surgeries, and chemo-therapy is hard enough. I'd love it if we could band together and help with some of the financial burden, so that they can focus their energy on what's important: loving and caring for their son during this difficult time.

It has been so heartwarming to see the love, support, and gifts he has already received. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such a large network of wonderful people. We appreciate any amount you are willing to give, and if you cannot donate, positive thoughts and prayers are absolutely enough <3

Read below to see Brett's post on Facebook detailing the events and diagnosis:

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As some of you already know, Jamie has been having some health issues, so we wanted to give an update, and ask for all the prayers we can get ❤️

At the end of March, Jamie started having some cramping in his stomach. This continued, on and off, for about a week, until I got a call from school that he wasn’t feeling well. I picked him up and brought him to urgent care for severe stomach pains, and they sent us to CMMC, thinking it might be his appendix.

CM did an ultrasound and found that he had intussusception (a few inches of his small intestine was telescoping into his large intestine). They sent us to Maine Med that night for a procedure to fix it.

Over the next week, Jamie continued to have a lot of stomach pain, so we brought him back to Maine Med, where they discovered that he intussuscepted again. This time, they decided to do a laparoscopic surgery to fix it, and we were able to bring him back home that night to start recovering.

The stomach pain continued, so we returned to Maine Med a week later, and they found that it happened again. They did another laparoscopic surgery to fix it, and a bunch of additional procedures and testing (which all came back normal).

A week later, Jamie was still in pain. He went to Maine Med for a follow-up ultrasound and they found that he had intussuscepted again, but this time, instead of inches of his small intestine going into his large intestine, it was several feet. They did emergency surgery, that day, to remove the part of his intestine that kept intussuscepting (luckily it had started releasing on its own, and they only had to remove about 6 inches). The surgeon found a large lump in Jamie’s IC valve (valve between large and small intestine), so they sent that to pathology to find out what it is.

Pathology gave us news that we never expected - Jamie was diagnosed with non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Prior to leaving the hospital, they did a chest X-ray and some blood tests which looked good.

Jamie is now home, recovering very well from his surgery, and looking forward to going back to school.

We meet with his oncologist next week, so we don’t have a lot of information to share yet, but thankfully the doctors caught it very early. All we know right now is that he will have to have a little more testing (CT and PET scan), and he will have to have chemotherapy.

Life is going to look a bit different for our always-on-the-go, sports-loving boy, as we focus on treatment and recovery, but we are staying positive. We know God was watching over Jamie when the intussusception kept happening, so that the doctors were able to find the tumor, and we know he’ll continue to watch over him while he fights this.