OK, so I just updated the thermometer to $7942 as a $20 donation came in just moments ago. The way things have been going the past week I’m sure that we’ll be at $8000 or close enough not to matter by the time I finish writing…wait…what? Alright, Julie tells me that $100 just came in literally as I was writing that last sentence. Seriously, I’m typing exactly the words “close enough not to matter” and her phone beeped its “new message” beep and that was that.
It’s hard to describe how grateful I feel right now. How totally flabbergasted and yet, oddly still not entirely surprised I am at the love and generosity that over 100 of you have shown us. It’s enough to make a curmudgeonly misanthrope like myself rethink a world view that I had thought was pretty firmly set.
Ok, I’m going to stop writing for a minute and just post this message so you know that we’ve met our goal because another donation just came in.
Here’s the deal: we have a friend who also has Lymphoma. Hers is going to take a lot longer to deal with than Phenon’s and we’d like to help her if we can. Honestly, we had no idea that we’d reach our goal this quickly and it feels like we can take advantage of this moment and try to direct some of the love and generosity that you have all shown to our family to try and pay forward a bit to someone else who really matters to us.
We’re waiting for her permission to share the link to her blog where she is taking donations. Once we hear from her, we’ll post a link and if any of you who were going to send something to help us cover our costs and just hadn’t gotten around to it yet would instead donate to her, we’d really appreciate it.
As our dear friend Megan said on her blog “you are all magnificent.”
Thank you all,
Tim and Julie
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