The Cotswold Family - supporting Adam and Wooten Schmitz

As my first official blog, it seems fitting that I write about the heart of Cotswold  - and that means the neighborhood family. Adam Schmitz lives a block away. He and his wife, Wooten, have lived here ten years. They have two kids close to our kids ages. We've seen them at every Halloween parade, at swim team practice and meets, and walking all around the neighborhood. We watched the election results come in at their house in 2008. I have gotten to know Adam's sister's family and his parents as they both moved the Charlotte in the past year and I was privileged to help them both find their homes to purchase.  For almost two years, Adam has been fighting a nasty battle with Neuroblastoma  - an aggressively growing brain cancer. It has absolutely been a rollercoaster - he has seen miraculous periods where the growth disappeared. But today is a low point, and Adam is now in Hospice care. He has written prolifically about his journey through his caringbridge site (www.caringbridge.org/visit/adamschmitz1). There is a Giveforward.com fundraising site to help with medical expenses. It's titled "the Adam Schmitz Cancer Fund," and I hope you will visit and contribute. Even with treatments coming to an end, they have major medical expenses from past treatments, and any contributions will help. And finally, takethemameal.com is managing the delivery of dinners for them for the next month and beyond. I hope getting this word out about all the different ways to help will make me feel better .... and thank you to all the Cotswold people who have done much more than I have.