A few of you met my Boss, Robin. He and his family have suffered a great tragedy this week. If you feel generous and want to help there is a way. If not then at least you can pray to whatever diety you worship for them.
Robins wife Lisa suffered a Hypertensive Hemorragic stroke this past monday. She had to be flown down to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and is still in the ICU. Critical but stable. We have no idea when she will awaken nor how much damage might be done and might be permanent. Time will tell but its going to be a long haul either way. Months. Possibly a month in ICU.
Robin and I have worked up until last Saturday to finishe her scooter to give to her on Mothers day. We, for the most part, did. And she rode it for the first time on Mothers day Sunday. The day before she suffered her stroke.
Lisa is 41 years old and had no history of high blood pressure. But apparently did have it. At least episodic problem. She is the "stay at home mom" of four children. She is also the "surogate mom" to many other children whom she has mothered and supported including my Son when his mother died. So she is a special person and this tradgedy is wide felt.
Problem is now they are facing a very critical period. Robin as the sole wage earner, will be hard strapped to deal with this. With one child in College and three more in the home at various ages to take care of and then there is Lisa now needing care... well its going to be difficult in many ways. One of the main ways her friends and all that can are going to try and help is to take away one of those hurdles. The financial one.
See... our Insurance is like many others. There are deductables and percentages. As it stands now his liability is $10,000. Immediately. For the year. And its expected he accumulated that somewhere on a chopper en route to Atlanta. And each and every minute in ICU is ticking up. But hopefully the limit of his damage there is around $10,000. So we are intending to see what we can do to help with that. So he can move onto all the other problems he needs to deal with. By the way, he knows nothing about this and we not telling him until its collected. He would most likely be embarassed by this. And I don't want to do that to him.
So as a first step I, and several others of us including Fatman have started a donation Pay Pal account. In the first day we are at $1200.... we got a lot to go.
If you want to and if you feel you need to then please donate. Even if it's just a little. It adds up.
There is a link on my site, cphilip.com titled "Lisa Newberry Medical Fund".
or here is the direct link:
Robins wife Lisa suffered a Hypertensive Hemorragic stroke this past monday. She had to be flown down to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and is still in the ICU. Critical but stable. We have no idea when she will awaken nor how much damage might be done and might be permanent. Time will tell but its going to be a long haul either way. Months. Possibly a month in ICU.
Robin and I have worked up until last Saturday to finishe her scooter to give to her on Mothers day. We, for the most part, did. And she rode it for the first time on Mothers day Sunday. The day before she suffered her stroke.
Lisa is 41 years old and had no history of high blood pressure. But apparently did have it. At least episodic problem. She is the "stay at home mom" of four children. She is also the "surogate mom" to many other children whom she has mothered and supported including my Son when his mother died. So she is a special person and this tradgedy is wide felt.
Problem is now they are facing a very critical period. Robin as the sole wage earner, will be hard strapped to deal with this. With one child in College and three more in the home at various ages to take care of and then there is Lisa now needing care... well its going to be difficult in many ways. One of the main ways her friends and all that can are going to try and help is to take away one of those hurdles. The financial one.
See... our Insurance is like many others. There are deductables and percentages. As it stands now his liability is $10,000. Immediately. For the year. And its expected he accumulated that somewhere on a chopper en route to Atlanta. And each and every minute in ICU is ticking up. But hopefully the limit of his damage there is around $10,000. So we are intending to see what we can do to help with that. So he can move onto all the other problems he needs to deal with. By the way, he knows nothing about this and we not telling him until its collected. He would most likely be embarassed by this. And I don't want to do that to him.
So as a first step I, and several others of us including Fatman have started a donation Pay Pal account. In the first day we are at $1200.... we got a lot to go.
If you want to and if you feel you need to then please donate. Even if it's just a little. It adds up.
There is a link on my site, cphilip.com titled "Lisa Newberry Medical Fund".
or here is the direct link:
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