Sara R needs our help.
As the heart and soul of the Community Quilt project, Sara is a DK angel. She's also unemployed, uninsured, ill and in need of surgery. We're asking this community to give back to Sara. You've been generous, but we've got a ways to go.
Community Quilts for SarahLee and ramara
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.
Donation challenge: Oke will donate $1 for each donor & 25 cents for each diary Rec!
Previous diaries here and here.
No donation challenge from trs & me today - y'all dinged us for $524 Friday (504 recs to the diary @ 50 cents each and 272 unique donors at $1 each - and we thank you for each and every one). But we're accepting any challenges in the comment threads. And any donations from you!
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.
Goldie, quilt inspector extraordinaire, inspects a
community quilt destined for onebiteatatime
Here's a letter from Nurse Kelley I posted in Friday's diary. She says it better than I ever could:
Dear iriti,
Sara R has been ill for more than a year. She has no health insurance. She receives no state aid.
She is unemployed and unemployable because of her health, yet she doesn’t qualify for disability because her disability will likely disappear after she has surgery ... which she can’t get, because she has no health insurance.
Pause while Nurse Kelley bangs her head against the wall
Sara and I are "real life" friends. We talk on the phone almost daily. In the last several weeks I’ve seen her health get worse and worse, leaving her curled on her bed in pain for days at a time.
What is this terrible illness? It’s not so terrible, not if you can get it taken care of. Our Sara has gallbladder disease. She needs surgery, an operation called a cholecystectomy, and I mean for her to have it. I got Sara to look at her problem as two individual problems – health and money – and I persuaded her to attack the health problem first, because an inflamed gallbladder is an emergency.
Sara’s charges for the tests the surgeon wanted – an ultrasound of her gallbladder and a colonoscopy – may be covered by a local angel. She is scheduled to have surgery on February 18 and is expected to prepay both the surgeon and hospital at least 50% of the cost.
So, iriti, Sara did as I asked and is ready to have her surgery and resume her active, loving, giving life. Let’s see what we can do about the money problem, shall we?
Love,
Kelley
Community quilts for andsarahtoo and Bustergirl.
Please help. Sara R has provided comfort to so many ailing Kossacks - she doesn't deserve to suffer because our health care system is broken. No donation is too small, and of course no donation is too large.
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.