Hey, kick it up a buck each time. Late comers feel the pain. :-)
I shall now go bask in my superior charity. j/k
Thanks for setting this up for him, Dana. I love it when an online community can come together to do something good.
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:31 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: soliciting...
I've matched that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:06 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: soliciting...
Dana,
I trust you. I'll donate $25
Please send pretty certificate. Paypal has my address.
Sandy
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From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:28 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: soliciting...
(I figure that will get some clicks)
Anyway... Paul Estares is sick now.
He's this Filipino kid I've been trying to get to medical help. I've been
making phone calls and sending emails on behalf of his Mom, and it seems
that she can get discounted care, but not free. No Medicaid there. Social
services there is saying, well, his case is complicated. I am getting this
from social service organizations over there too. It seems they have decided
that keeping him alive costs too much. His parents are not rich people. The
dad drives a taxi. They live outside Manila in a neighborhood where the
nearest phone is several blocks away.
Paul was supposed to get some lab tests late last year, which had to be
cancelled when his parents could not come up with the money - 15,000 pesos,
which turns out to be $268 US. His Mom wants me to get him to the US for
treatment, but I figure, first let's just get the tests done. Maybe he only
needs a different antibiotic. So I am passing the hat, here and over at
prunebelly.org.
C'mon you guys, let's just do it :)
If he turns out to need more medical care than a change of antibiotic then I
will make some more phone calls and send some more emails and try to get
some airline to donate a ticket and find out what he needs for a medical
visa (unless Tim can tell me). But who knows, maybe that's all he needs and
we can solve the whole problem right here, before the PBSN people even get
back to me. I would get some grins out of that.
Some cynic out there is probably thinking that I am being scammed. I don't
think so. I have talked to the pediatric urologist that did surgery when he
was a baby. One of the doctors I sent email to has managed to get the mother
on the phone, and that doctor thinks the kid needs to get to the States. I
don't want use HoF bandwidth to post all the emails I have about this, but
if anyone would like to look at them, I do have all of them here.
I have started a Paypal account for the PBSN Children's Medical Fund, under
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul is the current applicant. Should the account
receive funds in excess of what is needed for Paul's lab tests they will be
applied to his medical bills if applicable. If I wind up with a surplus
beyond Paul's medical needs I will let it earn interest and use it for
similar children. The issue of prune belly children in third-world
countries, and in the US without insurance, has come up before from time to
time. I will pay out from the account only to a medical facility or
pharmacy.
By the way the PBSN (prunebelly.org) is a non-profit organization duly
registered with the United States federal government, and all contributions
are tax-deductible as charitable donations from your United States taxes. I
will make sure that any donor that wants one gets a pretty little receipt
from our treasurer.
Thank you,
Dana
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