Cap'n Krusty needs YOUR help!, And his niece needs your money...................... Options

[Cap'n Krusty]

Good morning, all! The first time I posted on Brad's "914 Club" was to ask for a little help getting a friend's house ready to live in. People showed up and ass was kicked and names taken. Been a long time, time for me to get nearly 10K posts in, and it's been fun all the way. This time, 9 1/2 years later, I'm asking for donations to help my niece, Sarah Roselli, raise funds to offset out-of-the-pocket expenses for breast cancer treatment. She lives and teaches school in Colombia, where she has medical insurance, and she also has some coverage here. There are a LOT of expenses not covered by either plan, and any help you can give is both sorely needed and greatly appreciated. I'm attaching a couple of links to make donating easy. Don't have much money? A few bucks is all I'm asking. You don't really need that 6-pack today, anyway! Just sold a car and feelin' flush? Maybe a little bit of that windfall could go to help this teacher in need. Gotta mother, a wife, or a daughter? YOU may be up against this someday!

Here's the major link, taking credit cards and Paypal (note: this site asks for a $25 donation to keep the site running, the site below doesn't): https://www.youcaring.com/sarahroselli

Here's a link to another Paypal donation site if you can't get that one to work: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_...d=FPBTLGFNRFL66

These sites are well managed and every penny goes toward Sarah's expenses!

Feel free to donate anonymously if you wish, but please mention 914 World so folks can see how we come together when the need arises.

Thanks for reading this, and TIA for any help you can give her! YOU can help her slam right up against that $10K goal!

The Cap'n

[Cap'n Krusty]

Back from LA! Had dinner with Sarah Tuesday evening, and she's handling all this stuff really well. She's humbled, BTW, at the support she's getting, not only from close friends, but from total strangers...... Little does she know how strange we really are! She sends her thanks! She's OK with me giving you a little rundown on the situation. Her cancer is a particularly aggressive form, and she would have been sent home to die 5 years ago. However, since that time they've developed specific targeted drugs and therapies for what she has, and the survival rate is high. Chemo first, to stop what's there from spreading throughout her body, and possibly shrink the existing mass, then surgery to remove what's left. After the initial diagnosis in Colombia, and the start of treatment, she came home to California and had an extensive consultation with the oncologists at the cancer center at USC. She had her second chemo session there. There's a good open line of communication between her doctors there and the ones in Colombia, and they're jointly overseeing the therapy. A high level of mutual respect exists between all the doctors involved, and she feels comfortable with all of 'em. She could choose to continue the protocol in either country. Her insurance for Colombia is very good, but doesn't cover her here. She's signed up and has paid for participation in the ACA here. Out of pocket expenses are a big thing here, not so much there, but she's gonna need every penny she can raise to help her out with those. We're about half way to the $10K mark, and that's a no-frills number.

Again, she has asked me to convey her thanks to all of you who have chipped in, and she's gonna keep me updated on her progress. When she's gotten through the initial phases, I think I can get her to post here. Here are a couple of pix, one before the haircut, one after. Sorry, no picture after what was left all fell out .............

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Done, (first link).

It's our turn to help you and your niece.