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Co-sponsored by Normal Moments and Cleaning Ladies 911
a community walk to raise money and awareness for families in need
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Click here for more information
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 Here’s another simple way to help raise funds for Normal Moments. When you purchase a new telephone or renew your cell phone contract, visit http://www.phonesforgood.com/pfg/go/308 to do your business. Whether you are with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Nextel, you can take care of all your purchases & contract upgrades/renewas at Phones for Good and have a significant portion of your purchase help support the families assisted by Normal Moments.
 An easy way to help Normal Moments is through a new Yahoo!-powered search engine and online shopping mall called GoodSearch. GoodSearch will make a donation to Normal Moments every time you search the internet and every time you purchase something at one of their partner merchants. Currently available merchants include Target, Gap, ebay, Macy’s, BestBuy, Barnes & Noble and hundreds more! There is no additional cost to you — the money comes from the advertisers and the stores. When you shop online, start with GoodSearch!
The more people who use this site, the more money will go to those in need. So please spread the word to your friends and family.
Here are the web sites — http://www.goodsearch.com and http://www.goodshop.com. You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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Emilio Update…
While you can visit Milo’s CaringBridge website for Mom’s update’s, we wanted to share a little more. Emilio’s life is very far from normal for a 4-year old boy. He will be in treatment for Leukemia for at least 3 years; maybe more depending on how many treatments get delayed due to low blood counts, which happens frequently due to low platelets (which allow your blood to clot), low white cells (which help fight infections), low hemoglobin (which carries oxygen throughout your body to feed your organs), or some combination thereof. When his counts are low, sometimes he feels it and sometimes he doesn’t. When he doesn’t, it can almost be worse because it is hard to be 4 and not allowed to romp and play with the other kids. For Mom, every temperature rise means a mad dash to the grocery store to make sure the rest of the family is set in case hospitalization ensues…also a common occurrence.
The good news is that there are plenty of days when Emilio does feel very much like a normal little boy and even when his counts are lowered, he now has a place to be outdoors, use his developing muscles, and still allows his parents the comfort of knowing that he is safe. Normal Moments, in conjunction with Bear Necessities and Rhyno Kid Care, helped fund the purchase of an amazing swing set and we provided most of the manpower to build it as well. We recruited from amongst our friends and families, including our friends at The Betterment Group, and had over a dozen people come help. We made it through 90 of 117 steps in one day and worked side-by-side with Emilio’s extended family the next day to complete this huge project as a community. Before the project was even complete, Milo and his sister, Sol, had “moved in”, bringing a table, chairs, pillows, and blankets into the upstairs clubhouse. You can see by the smile on Milo’s face in the picture above, at least for a little while, he could forget that he is a Leukemia patient and could just be a happy and boisterous 4-year old.
Thanks to everyone who came out to help, especially our general contractor friends at J & B Construction. We couldn’t have done it without you!
For more information on Emilio see his Caring Bridge site.
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