Saturday, September 3, 2011
Fundraising for Dan Baker and Family
As some of you may know, my cousin Daniel was in a serious motorcycle accident this past Tuesday afternoon. He has severed his spine and is paralyzed below T6 (right below his shoulder blades). We are so happy to say he is in stable condition and he is just waiting on the doctor's OK to be moved to a rehab center in Boston. Dan had the good sense to wear his helmet, which probably ended up saving his life.
As you can imagine, this is a very trying and difficult time for Dan's whole family, especially his very loving and devoted parents, Jane and Paul. Some of our family members thought now would be a great time for us to pull together to help them out in their time of confusion, chaos,and need. Dan's sister in law Katie and my sister in law Kara have joined together to come up with some great ideas on how we can all help Jane, Paul and Dan.
With your help, we can get Jane and Paul weeks worth of meals delivered right to them with very minimal preparation required on their part.
Our goal is to raise enough money to gift Jane and Paul with a certificate (from dinewise.com) worth $1000.00. At Dinewise.com, to get a $1000.00 gift certificate, it only costs us $850.00 (which is getting 12 free meals!).
We would also like to do something for Dan. Katie and Kevin thought that getting him an ipad would be wonderful for him for so many reasons. It can be used as an eReader, a computer, and it doesn't take up much room. It will be a great long term solution for Dan and will help keep his spirits up by allowing him the ability to stay connected, stay entertained, and stimulate his mind.
As both of these are planned as surprises, please don't share with Jane, Paul or Dan!
There are 2 ways that you can help by donating.
1) You may go to Kara's website http://karabakerphotography.zenfolio.com/recent.html Choose the gallery marked DONATE and enter password: 1234. You select the photo (the only one there) and then choose on the lower right hand side the denomination that you want to contribute. You will have to then follow instructions (hit continue, drag the photo, add tocart and then check out).
2) Send a paypal payment directly to Kara at kara@karabakerphotography.com
Please continue to send prayers, love and positive thoughts to Dan, Jane and Paul.
All my love,
Melissa
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Dear Melissa and Kara and all -
ReplyDeleteSteve and I are so sorry to hear about Danny's accident and are sending our love and prayers.
We want to give you some $$ toward the Ipad and Meals -- but am not able to figure out how to do it online. I am right here in Saugus and would be happy to run a check or cash over to someone's house or give a credit card # whatever is easiest and fastest method. Can one of you call me 646-242-4466. Many thanks.
Also please keep us in the communication loop. Let us know where they move Dan to here in Boston. Steve's restaurant is near many of the hospitals and he delivers all over Boston. We would like to provide meals for the Paul and Jane --and the family. We also have a a private apartment in our home, which we are glad to make available to Paul and Jane, and any of the family, if anyone needs a place to stay. Please pass this along to the family and let us know if there is anything else we can do.
With Love,
Michele (Micky) Carreiro - Paul's cousin
and Steve Canestaro
Sorry Micky! I just edited the page to include the website - my fibromyalgia is at its worst right now and my brains aer scrambled. I will pass your message along to Katie. Thank you so much!
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