Our Friend Kerrie Lea is hanging on for dear life: please do help

[Stephanie]

Our dearest, lovely Kerrielea,
Whilst organizing preparations for Christmas lunch, I mentioned your story to two very "wealthy" in everyway except financially, loving people.

They have given me a small donation for you, which is on its way to you via PayPal, along with all their "amor y benediciones". ( love and blessings)

My heart sighs....
.....you are our blessing, thank you.

[RunningDeer]

Newest update... $4,700.

1/3/17

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[RunningDeer]

$4,700

[Sierra]

We've hit the big 5K!



All you wonderful, wonderful people you!

I could just squash you!

[Flash]

is that what she needs 15,000$??? It would help if we knew the real target (maybe she does not know yet, this I understand). It would be a motivator (hopefully not the contrary). 5k gives the plane ticket for Israel and some days in an hospital room. How much is the surgery? Is there ways she can live at places that are less expensive than probably most private hospitals in Israel or Costa Rica?

Limor, how is it organised in Israel? I remember that a simple ear\throat\nose kid surgery was 2k 15 years ago in Istanbul, without any hospital stay and without any special equipment or artificial body part and the doctor doing it for free (a friend of ours) and without the plane ticket. It can get pretty expensive pretty fast. Anyone has any idea of the real target?

I got good news on my own financial side, I will be able to give in a couple of weeks.

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

$5,154


(updates also @ post #2)

[Vward]

All my love and best wishes. I can make a contribution Wednesday. My friend should help too I will ask. He is coming to visit I could make it a house rule.😃

[araucaria]

I tend to prefer discretion in these matters, but if that is a hindrance to creating a dynamic to get this thing done, then I will own up to being a part of the effort so far, and encourage anyone to do what they can.

Here in France, but hardly anywhere else, ‘non-assistance to a person in danger’ is a criminal offence. If you know of a danger to someone and can act to help without danger to self or others, then you are required by law to do so, even if it is only calling for help. I don’t know if fund-raising would count anyway, I’m just saying how seriously this kind of life-threatening situation can be viewed with respect to bystanders.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Flash (here)
I got good news on my own financial side, I will be able to give in a couple of weeks.

Thank you, Flash.

is that what she needs 15,000$??? I remember that a simple ear\throat\nose kid surgery was 2k 15 years ago

To clarify, the amount is $15,000-$20,000. It was a bit of a challenge with the graphic to represent the whole picture and still show movement.

I wonder what $2,000 ear\throat\nose from fifteen years ago would look like today? Two years ago, I was notified that my health insurance would triple the next quarter. It was a little under $300 (correction $292) a month and a challenge to pay, and jumped to a little over $900 a month. For almost fifty years, I’ve helped the health industry get rich. I cancelled my policy that day, and went without health insurance for six months until medicare kicked in. Even that I only signed up for the free part. (Free because I paid in all these years.)

[thepainterdoug]

I SENT MONEY TODAY TO Iamgrateful2u2@gmail.com says last name -------- hopefully this is correct!! please alert me if not! thanks/ doug

== EDIT ==
Removed reference to name. Sierra

[RunningDeer]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
I SENT MONEY TODAY TO Iamgrateful2u2@gmail.com says last name -------- hopefully this is correct!! please alert me if not! thanks/ doug

Yes, it registered. Thank you, Doug.

== EDIT ==
Removed reference to name. Sierra (Thanks for the confirmation RunningDeer!)

[Krist]

Love,healing,funds on the way!

[RunningDeer]

$4,700

[RunningDeer]

I’m sorry.

The donations from early on were transferred from Go Fund Me into Pay Pal for safe keeping. I didn’t realize that what’s called “Bank Transfers” came from the original account. So alas…I had to roll back the total. 

We’ve simplified things. Because Kerrie is working with several accounts, i.e., Go Fund Me, Pay Pal and personal checking, she’ll inform me of the running total and I’ll update it on the thread.

Total: $4,700


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[kerrielea]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
I’m sorry.

The donations from early on were transferred from Go Fund Me into Pay Pal for safe keeping. I didn’t realize that what’s called “Bank Transfers” came from the original account. So alas…I had to roll back the total. 

We’ve simplified things. Because Kerrie is working with several accounts, i.e., Go Fund Me, Pay Pal and personal checking, she’ll inform me of the running total and I’ll update it on the thread.

Total: $4,963


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Thank you so very much for updating this for me! :-)

[RunningDeer]

Posted by kerrielea (here)
Thank you so very much for updating this for me! :-)

[regnak]

Merry Christmas and get well soon may all your dreams come true

[Bill Ryan]

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My own sincere thanks to everyone who's been so very generous, also in your very kind thoughts and well-wishes. (And thanks to Paula/RunningDeer) for managing the $$ updates! Actually, not a simple job at all.)

Here's an interim summary update about the progress Kerrie has been making arranging the essential surgery. It's only interim, because it's all still in progress, but the Christmas break has kind of got in the way — as it does. But here's the situation:

The original plan (and apparent only option) was for her to go to Israel.

Then Ulli stepped up , and recommended a surgeon in Costa Rica (Dr Castro) that her doctor husband Luis knows well. Kerrie was able to speak with Dr Castro personally, a few days ago, and was impressed with his understanding and willingness to help. The ball is now in his court about what prosthetic materials he can access to use, and Kerrie's waiting to hear back.

Meanwhile, the Israeli unit that Kerrie originally found is allied with The Reading Shoulder Unit, in Reading, England. The head of the unit, Professor Levy, is Israeli. There's every early indication that they will also be able to help — and for many obvious reasons, the UK is a far easier place to have all this done than Israel.

Very early days yet, of course, but it may well be that any local Avalonians who live nearby may be able to offer a little much-needed logistic help. (Meeting her at the airport, local knowledge, etc etc)

The last bit of encouraging news is that Kerrie has a good friend whose husband is in the airline industry, and it seems as if she can get free flights ('buddy passes') to Costa Rica or London (Reading is a stone's throw, 25 miles, from London's Heathrow Airport). But not to Israel. That alone is worth a significant number of $$, and it may not matter now if there's no free flight to Israel itself.

Kerrie's hoping to learn a great deal more about her options soon after Christmas, and then she'll be able to make the best-informed decision about her optimum chance: costs will definitely have something to do with it, of course.

Please keep the donations coming in, if you possibly can.

We're not there yet (at all) — though Kerrie is very hugely encouraged, and we're close to being able to change the title of the thread to something a lot more positive.

[RunningDeer]

Total: $4,700

[meeradas]

bumpin' it

[Marianne]

After conferring with Kerrie, we've decided to change the title to something more positive, but which still speaks to Kerrie's dire need here and now.

Our Friend Kerrie Lea is hanging on for dear life: please do help

Once again, so many thanks for your generous sharing, of energy, good will, money, and other resources. It's appreciated more than you know!

My apologies for being absent from the thread ... the day-to-day of family circumstasnces has consumed all my time and energy. Special thanks to Paula/RunningDeer (dear) for keeping track of the total and Meeradas just now for bumping it!