JwRosenthal
·Thoughts and prayers don’t pay insurance premiums. Skip a strap, help a brother out.
Thoughts and prayers don’t pay insurance premiums. Skip a strap, help a brother out.
I'm going to echo James' post. At present, OF has more than 83,000 members worldwide. If just 2% of our members contributed $15 each to the cause, we would achieve our goal of 25k to help Alex. This guy is one of our own and is in a serious situation which is not of his own making. Again, we're grateful for anything that you would like to contribute. Thank you.
I added to the pot with the hopes of helping Alex. In January and February of this year I almost met Elvis. Had four unexpected surgeries in three weeks I had been invaded by a treatment resistant bacteria. Got to the point where they told my wife prepare for the worst.
Anyway I was told I’d be leaving the hospital on a walker and require oxygen. The day before I left I no longer met that criteria and walked out on my own. They couldn’t give me an estimate on return to work. I just waited a couple weeks till the pain became tolerable and went back (still dealing with the pain a bit) Anyway I bring this up as sometimes these medical prognosis are pessimistic. I’m certainly not making light of Alex situation just hoping he has an unexpected quick recovery like myself. There was no medical explanation why the bacteria in me died off. The two surgeons who worked on me had never seen such a case in the combined 60 years plus history of cutting people up they had between them.
So don’t discount thoughts and prayers. Regardless it’s scary stuff and taxing on the whole family and they never happen at convenient times (I was in the middle of moving my wife got stuck dealing with everything) I do hope in a relatively short period of time you overcome this medical tragedy or learn how to compensate for the little bits and pieces that may not return 100%.
I don’t wish such things on anybody but no one asks us if we are ready for them.
Be strong
Heal quick
Gods speed
Thank you for both your contribution and your kind thoughts and encouragement. If James and I gave the impression that we think that "thoughts and prayers" are of no positive benefit, that certainly isn't what we meant to convey. Indeed, study after study has shown the importance of being socially connected and supported by others as a factor in a patient's recovery. All we meant and, regrettably, it's true, is that hopes and prayers don't seem to produce legal tender. And that stuff really does help to pay the bills. 😀 Again, thanks for your support and keep those GFM contributions coming folks. The fund for Alex is growing slowly, but it IS growing.
My illness was not a stroke. They scare the heck out of me.
As well they should. Me too. As I tried to emphasize in the GFM "story" and in subsequent posts here, Alex was living alone when the stroke occurred and he was found 30 hours later. Imagine that if you can. That 30 hours without treatment did a lot of damage. If it weren't for his family, Alex would be in a very different situation right now and the situation that he IS in is bad enough.
I'm going to echo James' post. At present, OF has more than 83,000 members worldwide. If just 2% of our members contributed $15 each to the cause, we would achieve our goal of 25k to help Alex. This guy is one of our own and is in a serious situation which is not of his own making. Again, we're grateful for anything that you would like to contribute. Thank you.
JwRosenthal and I both know Alex through the Mid-Atlantic G2G. Alex is a great guy and we have organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to help Alex recover and reestablish his independence. Please contribute if you are so inclined, feel free to forward the link to others, and thank you! Thanks also to dsio, OF’s other mods and the owners of OF for their support in allowing us to do this for Alex. I’m proud to be part of this community.
Here’s the GoFundMe link:
https://gofund.me/
Thanks for setting this up Greg. Hopefully we can all pull together and help out Alex here with his difficult situation. Thanks to the mods and everyone that has donated. You’re in our thoughts Alex.
Thoughts and prayers don’t pay insurance premiums. Skip a strap, help a brother out.