Saturday, April 09, 2011

Rock-Away-Cancer Giveaway

I write this post with a heavy heart, but a lot of promise... and a twinkle in my eye. It's rare I come to you asking for anything, but this time is a little bit different. A couple months ago I was hit with some heavy news... one of my greatest friends, at just 23 years old was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. I know this is always terrible news, but at 23 its just unacceptable, and pretty damn unfair if you ask me.  No one deserves to be going through what she is right now. She got to spend her birthday weekend getting her first dose of Chemo. A few weeks later she was noticing some strange memory loss... forgetting names of friends... family, etc. so she went to get it checked out. While at the doctor, they found a brain tumor.  Seriously?? Ugh. Just writing this I am getting angry all over again. So they doubled the chemo/radiation cocktail... and she's on loads of meds. The good news is - the Ovarian cancer has almost been blasted away - so she will hopefully just need the hysterectomy to finish it off. The bad news is - the brain tumor isn't changing and is going to require surgery. Between being so sick, missing work, medical bills & prescriptions she is out of money just like any one of us would be. I would like to think if I were ever in this situation someone would be willing to help me keep up this fight, so it was NO DOUBT that I was ready to pull all of my resources to help her... Rather than just asking you amazing friends, family, & customers to donate - I came up with a plan... we will do a Rock-Away-Cancer giveaway...

For every $1 you donate you get 1 entry into the contest.
For every $5 you donate you get 10 entries into the contest.
For every $10 you donate you get 25 entries into the contest.

Example: $3 = 3 entries  -  $7 = 12 entries   -   $15 = 35 entries

After a week - we will combine all the entries into one big giant hat and pull a name...

The winner will receive a custom basket of awesomeness catered your lil' ones gender. Winner will choose girl/boy/unisex and I will put together a basket of awesom-ness... Blankets, bibs, burp rags, booger bashers... whatever I can come up with valuing well over $150... OR the winner can choose a custom toddler bedding set OR two adult blankets....

I appreciate you guys taking the time to read this... anything... every single dollar will help and I wanted to do something special that would benefit you as well. Win or lose, the prize is high... she gets to keep fighting this battle.

Donate here - the money goes to a special paypal account just for her so that we can keep track. I will run this for a week so until Saturday, April 16th... If it goes as well as I am hoping - maybe we will do another one next month too :)










12 comments:

  1. Done :)

    My prayers are with her, as well as with her family and friends who are undoubtedly suffering along with her. May this only end in her triumph!

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  2. I wish your friend the best! I've been personally touched by cancer, and I can see how it can forever change lives.

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  3. I'm going to try and make another donation later this week if I can so its not such a piddly amount. Tell your gf that I am wishing her an amazingly quick and successful FULL recovery!

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  4. Made a donation today, but will be back with more next week. Prayers for you and friend!

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  5. This is such a great idea. I cant imagine all the stress your poor friend is dealing with. Damn hospital bills never end. I hope you raise oodles and oodles of money. And bless everyone participating.

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  6. I have donated and I'm sorry it's not more. Wishing your friend the strength she needs to get well xx

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  7. I made a donation, This is awful! I wish her and her family all the strength and prayers in the world. So sad how so many are affected by this awful disease and so nice of you to help try to raise money for her.

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  8. My donation wasn't big, but I know that every little bit helps.
    My prayers are with your friend, her family and all of the people supporting her through this hard time.

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  9. I read this after jennybunny posted a tweet that linked to this post. I donated what I could, and although I don't have babies of my own, I'm going to post on fb. I know lots of moms who would hopefully be interested in donating as well. I'll do whatever I can to help. I hope your giveaway helps to raise a lot for her!

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  10. I only donated $5... I'm kind of poor but I'm sending links out on my two twitters, three blogs and facebooks.... :D

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  11. Back today with another donation. Wish it could be soooo much more.I have been thinking of her all week! I have a daughter just her age..23 and I can't even fathom her dealing with such a devastating disease. Prayers are with you all! May God give you all strength to get through this.

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  12. I feel awful about missing this! I hope everything will go more than well for her from now on!

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