A little piece of heaven

We need your help!

We need to organize a big fundraiser to help us raise money for Nathan’s care. We are exploring a lot of options to try and improve his chances of developing, and all of them are very very expensive.

As someone recently told us, brain damage is big business, which is wrong on so many levels. Dont’ worry, we have plans to do something about it. For a sneap peak, visit EmpoweringSpecialKids.com

In the meantime, we need help. We want to organize a big fundraiser to help us raise money for Nathan to have various types of therapies.

This is a very difficult thing for us, Owen and I are very independent and we have a difficult time with the mere thought of fundraising.

But we will do anything for our son, whatever it takes to make sure he has the best chance possible at the highest quality of life possible.

So here’s our request. Could you send us some ideas for fundraisers. Maybe you’ve been to successful fundraisers, maybe you know someone that has done one, maybe you yourself have. We don’t really know what to do or how to go about it.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so very much.

That’s how my day started today. Marcela takes Lucas to park, Lucas sees dog, Lucas lunges, Marcela flies.

I don’t think the physical pain was as intense as the emotional one.

If it had only stopped at that, I would’ve been fine. But I wouldn’t let go so he kept dragging me while I was on my knees. I got bloody knees, foot, hands, ankles.

Never hold on to a great dane who weights more than you when his mind is made up. That’s the lesson of the day.

So, after much deliberation, we’ve made the decision – we’re taking Nathan for Stem Cell therapy next week in the Dominican Republic.

We are hopeful, nervous, excited, apprehensive. But in the end, we decided, it’s a risk free, painless treatment that offers the potential to help him. So we’re gonna do it.

We leave Thursday morning, land in DR in the evening, go to the clinic on Friday for an IV shot of the stem cells, grab a flight Saturday morning, back home Saturday night.

Then we can rest and catch up on Monday, and then Nathan starts intensive therapy at NAPA on Monday morning.

Please keep us in your prayers, this is a scary and very active time for us.