My husband and I were discussing this sort of thing last night. Sometimes we want to help and feel like we can't do "enough" to help. What is "enough" really? Every year that I have raised money for Relay, Race for the Cure and so on I have kept 1 solid mentality......Every single $1 helps! I had $2 donations one year, guess what? I was just as grateful and it all added up in the end just the same!
There are 774 friends on my facebook page. We can add on top of that Twitter and Instagram as well. Wow.....Imagine if each person donated ONLY One Single $1. That would be HUGE!
When I was a little girl my mom saved pennies. Just pennies. Mom took all 5 of us to the movies with drinks and popcorn with her bucket of pennies. It was a lesson (although I am not so sure it was the intention) but none the less a lesson I will never forget.
We all have our own struggles and needs and that is totally understandable. A girl I went to school with reposted a page to a gal raising money for medical treatment a few weeks ago. No clue who the girl was or anything like that. Here I am trying to help this family so dear to me raise money for medical expenses with all the have been going through as well but I stopped, followed the link and donated $10. That is a trip to Starbucks for most people. My nephew actually works there now PT while going to Nursing College and he was talking about the $$ people throw down on coffee.....lol It is very true though!
So there is a 15 minute challenge I came across online......
Set a timer for 15 minutes and run around your house, your garage, your car and round up as much spare change as you can find. Check pockets, purses, sofa cushions
I was on work break so I only spent about 6 minutes to be honest and let me show you in the pictures below what I found.....Well over $1 in just 6 minutes.
So, for just a few minutes a day you can help this family get their child the help she needs and a little reassurance that they will be able to focus all their time and attention on getting her better rather than the every day things that we so often take for granted ourselves.
Just a thought and a Reminder that EVERY Single $1 Helps more than we even know.
Do you have a few minutes of your day to take the challenge?
http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/angels-needed-for-starla-and-joshua/82589
Many have asked about updated on my sister's family, thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers. Here is the most recent update.
Starla Marie Shope has been struggling so much, but has really been a trooper. She turned 16 yesterday! She however will not be driving for some time. She is currently in a wheel chair and they have put a railed hospital bed in her room as she cannot seem to lay flat and well, we don’t want her rolling out! It’s been a process from a cane, to a walker and now the chair. They will not allow her to go to school at this time as she kept falling and getting hurt so she is currently being home schooled to keep up with her other classmates. Her headaches never stop and they have been getting shots weekly now to help give her some relief for a couple of hours. Her ears have a lot of pressure most of the time and the constant ringing is hard to handle. Her balance is pretty much gone totally now, on her bad days she can't even sit up without support or she falls over. They have been taking her to any doctor they can to try and find her some help. Her group of doctors here at home have decided she needs to go to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. This is about a 10 drive that will be very difficult for Starla to make but we are hoping that it will be worth the trip. The doctors there already have her case and getting a team together to care for her when she arrives. They are going to call next week and let them know when to have her there. If I had to guess I would say they will be admitting her in the next couple of weeks. The doctors here at home are wonderful. They know if her mom call’s that she have already done all she can safely do and they bring her right in, we are so blessed to have them through all this.
Joshua Derden is still having problems with what they are saying are “Atonic” or “drop seizures” and will be out of work for many more months to come from the way they are talking. They said that he would need to go 6 months without a seizure before he can return to work. He had another and was back in the hospital last Saturday night. They have still not been able to determine if the seizures are a result of the original fall or the fall a result of the seizure but they are leaning towards the first fall causing the seizures. Josh has continued through the seizures to retain new information and new things that he has learned since the original fall. He has not however been able to regain any of the memory from the first 38 years of his life as a result of the original fall and brain injury. It continues to be a long journey.
There is a site set up for donations to assist in medical expenses and travel expenses to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville FL. Please feel free to message me if you have any questions at all!
http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/angels-needed-for-starla-and-joshua/82589
