Please Help Out Christopher and His Family!!!!!!!!

[EX#996]

Thanks Peanut and Dan....

[Old808]

Does that help explain where my heart is?

Dawn

It does. Merry X-mas.  :)

[EX#996]

It does. Merry X-mas.  :)

Merry Christmas to you all

Dawn   :)

[Gixxerblade]

Dawn I think it a gerat thing that Bill is trying to do for his local family and in trying to get the MC community together on this. I think that its making such a big impact on people because in some way I think people are/were looking for a reason to give to a needy cause during Christmas and making a difference or the feeling of making a difference. Now that since you give so much everyday, why don't you give this board a gift and make it a sticky.  ;D

[dylanfan53]

The CCS/WERA crap is ridiculous.  It's not a contest right now so no one has been "outclassed".

OK I removed my post with the flippant comment.  Sorry.

[DragonSlayer]

Let's not turn this into a pissing contest,It's a nice gesture by BB & has been posted on alot of other boards.Jack up & give if you want if not just don't.
My .02 cents

[Sunny]

It's wonderful to see the generosity of people.....

Perhaps I should set up a pay pal site for a family who I support and care for.  This is their story:

Just like Christopher's family above, this story starts off with a couple having a child at way to young of an age.  They "did the right thing" by getting married.  Life, while still a struggle, was going OK and they had another two children together.  Their second child, a son (who was born 6 days after Renee) became very ill as a toddler.  The doctor said to them that even though he was very ill, only 4% of these cases ended in death.  In this child's case, he was one that died.  

Losing a child is devastating for a parent, it is very hard to work through the grief.  Some parents can do it, others can not.  The mother received counciling while the father refused to go.  They had another child together, but this could not fill the emptiness left in the father's heart of the child that died.

The father ended up losing his job, would not do anything to help himself, and continued to blame the mother for the death of his son.  The mother, needing to take care of their three children knew this was not a good situation to raise thier family tried to convince the father to get counciling, prayed for him constantly, and tried patience and understanding to pull him through this.  However, nothing worked and they ended up getting a divorce.

So here's a single mother of three, making it on her own.  The father works part time once in a while, has no health insurance, and now sees the children that he has fathered as a burden, not his own flesh and blood.  So any child support the mother receives is extremly minimal.  The apartment that she lives in only has two bedrooms, one for the two girls and one for the son, the mother sleeps in the living room.

Then, their first born daughter got sick (don't ask me what she had, I can't remember).  The doctors stated that she would need a kidney transplant by the time she was 16.  Unfortunately, her condition deteriorated so quickly that at age 14, she need the transplant, or she was going to die.  The two grandmothers, an aunt and the mother was tested to see if any would match the daughter (the father refused to be tested).  The aunt was a match, however not as good of a match as the mother.  So, a little over a year a go, both the mother and the daughter had surgery.  While I wish to say everything went smoothly, it didn't, but today things are looking up for the daughter.

This mother has been through a LOT.  I know that she feels that life has continually beat her down at every turn, so when a very charming man entered her life, she was very happy.  As an outside person looking in, I was reserved about this man, but everything seemed to be going OK.  In a moment of weakness, she got pregnant.  After two months, that charming man was gone.

Well the child was born.  A beautiful little girl with big brown eyes and dark curly hair.  This charming man, after dumping the mother while she was pregnant came back.  It was not a good situation.  Now that he had something over the mother, and he forced her into a relationship while still having relations with his current girlfriend.

With the support of her family and friends, the mother stood up and told this man "NO".  This resulted in her getting spit upon in the face and shoved all over the room.  She came to work with bruises on both arms like you would not believe.  Fortunately, she did get a restraining order on him.

Now, she is a single mother of four with one daughter on anti-rejection medicine and her new born daughter....  has a heart condition that the doctors are closely monitoring.

My whole point of this story is that a person does not need to look very far to see someone in need.  This BBS could be filled with stories like this.  If a person wants to post, no problem.  But it should not be expected of anyone that they need to contribute nor should anyone be looked down upon because they did not contribute the one that is posted.

Dawn

Dawn, I would like to donate some $$$ to this poor single mother of four.  Can you arrange that?  I am pretty sure that some others would like to help as well.  We just need to know who/when/where.  Thanks.

You are correct in that there are plenty more out there needing a helping hand, and we can only do so much (most of the time just short term help with some $$$, not long term unless a good job is provided).

[spyderchick]

For those of you who want to keep this subject at the top, just "bump" it every so often. There's really no need to sticky.

I have to agree with BarnicleBill that this seems like a needy family worthy of help. Those who wish to do so can help.

I also agree with Dawn that there are lots of folks out there worthy of help. Please feel free to choose your charities wisely.

We all would like to give as much as we can. Money is only one aspect. You can help out by volunteering and donating services as well. Call a local charitable organization in your home town and they can tell you how.

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy Holiday season!

[Johnny B]

[smoke]

BUMP

[Old808]

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[Johnny B]