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I’m late getting this out but the girls crushed it at States!

South Carolina 4A State Runner-ups! 🥈

They all swam their hearts out! Congratulations, Girls, Coaches and Parents!

The 200 Medley Relay Belle was in placed second! 🥈
Individually she placed 2nd and 4th in the 50 and 100 Free, respectively.
Their 200 Free Relay WON STATE! 🥇

That brings the 2026 High School Season to a close. It’s always too short but this year it was very sweet!

Thank you, Coach Ashley, Coach Lila, Coach John and Coach Tony! And thank you to our team parents and volunteers. None of it gets done without you! 💪🏼

Congratulations too, to our Boys’ Team who took third in the state yesterday! taken in University of South Carolina by @betsygload2

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And meanwhile, poolside, @catawbaridgeswimming was busy making history at the South Carolina Class 4A Region 3 Meet taking 🥇 in boys, girls and combined!

Their haul:
6 🥇
5 🥈
8 🥉

Belle competed in:
200 Medley Relay 🥈
50 Free 🥇
100 Free 🥇(PR: 55.30, unsuited)
200 Free Relay 🥇

She will compete in the State Championship at USC this Thursday 10/8.

#bellebelle #200medleyrelay #200freerelay #50free #100free taken in Fort Mill, South Carolina by @betsygload2

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We brought this guy home on Friday evening. We’re in pain management mode right now while we wait for radiation to do its thing. Right now a good day has him at a 5/10 on a pain scale. The meds make him sleep quite a bit but that’s preferable to pain.

The tumor on his spine has left him bedridden and barely able to move. Early last week, while at the hospital, I texted @kelleycook1976 and told her we needed to move G’s room downstairs. She and I have had this plan in our back pocket, for months. I told her it was time. Ash, @reggitstlaw and she made it happen overnight. I’m telling you… our people are superheros. 🦸🏻‍♀️ 🦸🏻

Our team at @levinechildrens set us up with an in-home palliative care team that allows us 24-hour access to doctors and nurses by phone or in person. This is a huge, mental safety net for me as we navigate some “big” drugs.

My prayers at this point revolve around pain relief and that radiation eradicates the tumor on his spinal cord so that it can heal and he can regain mobility; that this new low is just a moment in time to get through.

We love you all and continue to be so grateful for your support and prayers.

#greyrocks #cancersucks by @betsygload2

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We chose to have Grey admitted to Levine again, this past Friday, in order to try to get his pain under control.

We met with Palliative Care on Friday, before his radiation treatment and they outlined a few options for pain management, at home or in-patient. Given the type of drugs they’re introducing, that they need to be up-titrated, that his BP and HR have been high, that we were rolling into a weekend and a few other factors, we opted to have him admitted.

His pain has been better the last 2 days, if he’s lying down. One of the goals for discharge is that we can make him comfortable when seated. We’re fighting tumor on his spinal cord that is causing extreme nerve pain. Being in-hospital though, has meant easier transfers (he literally stays lying down, in bed) to and from his radiation treatments.

We don’t have a discharge date but will evaluate his pain level daily. He will be discharged when we all feel it’s under control.

You guys remain the most loyal prayer warriors. Thank you. 🙏🏼

With Love,
The Gload Gang

#greyrocks #cancersucks #402prayers taken in Levine Children's by @betsygload2

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Here we go again. This time photon radiation of his full spine. 10 treatments. He is being positioned for his first treatment as I write.

He is in excruciating pain all the time. The tumor is on his spinal cord causing horrible nerve pain in his neck, back, hips, butt and legs. He can’t sleep, prescribed, controlled meds aren’t helping.

He continues to lose strength and coordination; nearly unable to walk or even be upright.

We are at a loss. Nothing we do helps. It’s a horrible feeling as a parent.

#greyrocks #cancersucks #havefaith taken in Atrium Health Levine Cancer by @betsygload2

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Soooo many of you are praying for us. Thank you! We’ll take every one. I’d like to invite you to something more, if you’d like.

Last Tuesday, after a Zoom to pray together, for Greyson, my friend Vu hit on something powerful. She said, “This reminds me how powerful prayer can be… why don’t we all set an alarm each day to pray for Grey, at the same time?” Ironically, I already had a few timers set, pre-medical-chaos so I sent them a screen shot. And Vu said, “4:02 looks perfect to me!”

And so, “4:02 prayers” started.

If you’re so inclined, I’d like to invite anyone and everyone to join us. So many of you have asked how you can help and truly, the prayers for ALL the things are what we need most.

So, if you’d like to send something up for G or ANYONE, we’ll all be doing the same at 4:02 every day. 😊

Love you all. Thank you. 🙏🏼

And thanks to @nomadrwat for making the Zoom suggestion and to @goffintent for praying BIG for us all on that call.

#grayrocks #ᴄᴀɴᴄᴇʀsᴜᴄᴋs #402prayers taken in Fort Mill, South Carolina by @betsygload2

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We got our boy home yesterday afternoon. He’s happier here, in his own bed, with his dogs and of course he’s smiling but truthfully, he’s in a great deal of pain, head to toe. The tumor in his spine is causing enough pain that he has trouble moving around and sitting up and has preferred to stay in bed instead. When he does have to get up, he is experiencing further weakness, coordination and balance issues. It is also affecting his BP and causing stomach and gastric issues. Meds chase meds as our team works nearly 24/7 to correct some of these issues. We are so grateful for a team who honestly loves him like family.

He will begin a new radiation protocol on Thursday 9/24. It should only be 10 treatments. It will be photon radiation instead of proton, which is what he had on the brain.

Thank you for all the continued love and prayers. We continue to need prayers most.

Here’s to better days! 🙏🏼

#greyrocks #cancersucks #godisgood taken in Fort Mill, South Carolina by @betsygload2

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If you ever doubt there’s good in the world, come meet my people.

I have said two things for years now:
1) One of the silver linings to our situation is being constantly reminded how much we’re loved.
2) People are one of God’s biggest blessings.

These are just some of the tangible ways we’ve been loved this week. I’ve heard from DOZENS more of you offering your love, prayers and time in ANY way I can think of to let you help. I promise, I will ask if I think of something.

Please keep the prayers coming. We will take them, we feel them and are so grateful for them.

#grayforgrey #bellebelle #blessings taken in Fort Mill, South Carolina by @betsygload2

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We have the news we didn’t want to hear and good news: Greyson’s tumor has spread to his spinal cord and they think radiation can eradicate it.

Grey has had acute neck + face pain for months. It started low, while he was in the hospital this summer and has gradually increased. He’s been unable to move or sleep, the pain sometimes so severe it makes him vomit. A low dose of Oxy was prescribed to help him sleep but his dose quickly increased to help with pain. Of course, that’s a concern in and of itself. An MRI showed a nerve in his face was irritated. A new med was prescribed but has to be introduced slowly.

In the meantime, he started to complain of lower back, hip + leg pain. We thought this might be tightness from 7 months of immobility (he is not walking yet). By Monday however, add’l symptoms had our team sending us to the ED. This is where the metastasis was caught; tumor was seen to be on his spinal cord. We were also told he had add’l fluid on the brain despite his shunt.

Ross was with him at the hospital and was told, in the middle of the night, by a neuro surgeon we don’t know, that G had an alarming amount of fluid on the brain and they thought the tumor was in his spine. That was it. He called me at 4:30 am. I woke Belle (she’s only 15- I forget sometimes bc she’s so mature), broke the news to her, sobbed in her arms and left her (her choice) to go to school and practice on her own, so I could be at the hospital when the doctors rounded, to give us more info.

I must have felt fear like this when he was first diagnoses but I don’t remember it.

We easily saw a dozen MDs + specialists yesterday- oncology, neuro, urology, radiation oncology, nephrology was consulted, palliative care, PT, OT… he had an Xray, a CT and this am, a radiation sim to prepare him for this next round. Each doctor though, gave us the best news possible including the miracle that they thought radiation would get rid of the spinal tumor.

The plan is to start late next week. It will only be 10 days.

Please say prayers for him. He has had a hard time mentally and physically. Thank you, as always. We love you all.

#greyrocks #ᴄᴀɴᴄᴇʀsᴜ� taken in Levine Children's by @betsygload2

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Fort Mill hosted a huge meet today and did a great job! Congratulations to all the swimmers!

Here’s a quick clip of Belle and one of her best friends, @ameliameehanswims side by side in the 50 free. Belle took it by a hair but Amelia got her in the 100 Free. 😉 They collaborated with 2 others in the 200 Medley Relay taking 🥉 (Belle swam fly and Amelia, back). It’s always so fun to watch these two.

#catawbaridgeswimming #fortmillfallout taken in Fort Mill, South Carolina by @betsygload2

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Congratulations @catawbaridgeswimming for a great meet last night!

Belle swam her favorite 50 Free then got to try her skills at the 50 and 100 Fly in the Medley Relay and individual 100 Fly, respectively. She also swam the 200 Free Relay. Her relays both placed first, she won the 50 and placed 4th in the 100 Fly.

Great work Team! 🏆 by @betsygload2

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Grey finished his radiation treatments today! 🎉

There’s a drum you can beat but he didn’t want the attention so he wore a sombrero on the way in and out instead because… why wouldn’t you?The staff, who he’s seen every day for 6 weeks (minus weekends), quietly acknowledged him and gave him a little gift. We celebrated with donuts on the way home. 🍩

We are so lucky to have this facility in Charlotte! Before it was built (2 years ago), our local kiddos most often went to Florida, Atlanta or TN for treatment. While I don’t envy those of you who have to make the commute to uptown everyday, I was so thankful that’s all it was for us!

Everyone has asked how he is. He’s pretty good. I won’t sugar-coat it and say he’s perfect, he’s not. He’s exhausted every day, nauseous most, has lost hair in a weird pattern and wasn’t allowed to get a haircut until after treatment ended because the mask he wore to keep his head in place (the bright green thing in one of the clips) was so tight a haircut could affect it (it literally left waffle print on his face). He started school at home and is still in need of help to stand and walk (we tabled further PT until after this ended). He has had nearly continuous neck pain and headaches for the last 2 months. And while he tries to be his usual roll-with-it, joking self, he has some frustration and anger that he’s fighting too. Rightfully so.

They say he could feel worse over the next 4-6 weeks. We will take it day by day.

He will have an MRI on 9/22 to assess the effectiveness of the radiation. Our hope is that this tumor “sleeps” for a decade or more.

He’s asleep on the couch now and that’s where I’ll leave him. Rest and healing are priority one.

Thank you, once again, to all of you who have stuck with us through this.

We’ll keep you posted.

#grayforgrey #greyrocks #protonradiation #braintumorawareness taken in Levine Cancer Institute by @betsygload2

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