OVER! NATORwide Assistance Completed! NATOR TEAM-ASSEMBLED and KICKED ASS!!!!! $7340.35 RAISED!

[Raider]

1/31/2014: OVER! $7340.35! total raised on MSF!

As most in VIP know, and 100% voted to green light medical and financial assistance to our NATOR family, one of us needs everyone to help. I could go into details myself, but @Jasbo;'s email to me was plenty enough. As you read, you will see not only is financial assistance needed, they need a bone marrow donation. Signing up for this may find you as NATOR Member, be a match for Arielle. On top of that, you will be in a national registry and you may also be a match for one of MANY out there needing a bone marrow donation to live. This is above and beyond ANYTHING MSF has ever done, in my opinion. They have received over $10,000 in charity drive online already, but that donation link goes inactive soon. As before, I will collect donations to the Nator paypal account, and then send $ to Jason frequently. In the Staff Section of MSF, all donations will be posted via screen shot of paypal, and spreadsheet. 100% of your gift donation will be sent to @Jasbo;.

Here is the information I encourage everyone to read.


"My name is Jason Rudasill @Jasbo; and Arielle is my Daughter. She is the newest member to our family and is currently 7 months old. She was born May 30th, 2013 and without any form of complications during or after pregnancy. My wife and I welcomed our 2nd daughter into this world while our first is 3 years old this February.

Back story:
Arielle like most is a seemingly normal and happy baby constantly showing signs of healthy development through infancy and meeting all her milestones. Around December of 2013 we had noticed she was starting to teeth. Frequently when babies start to get their teeth its normal for them to become a little cranky, change thier eating habits, and even run a low grade fever on and off. Through out this time we had recorded a couple minor fevers but considering she is teething and we are in the cold season here in NY, we weren't too surprised. On December 14 2013, my wife texted me a picture showing her with Arielle saying "I don't think she is feeling so well today". Again we werent surprised with this or seeing a low grade fever with it. Through out the next couple days we noticed the fever wasn't going away so we called the doctor just to let them know what was going on and to seek their advice. The doctors office felt it wasn't necessary to bring her in right away but advised us to see what happens over the next couple days, and to try to get rid of the fever with Tylenol or Ibuprofen. We also noticed during this time she was becoming more and more sleepy, and was less interested in feeding. She was also wetting diapers less and less during this week. This combined with the fever had us a little concerned she was actually sick with something so we called the doctor back on December 19th 2013, and made an appointment to come in that morning. My wife takes her in and our pediatric doctor couldn't see anything obviously wrong with her but wanted to make sure there wasnt some sort of Urinary Tract Infection that could be in the works. We were asked to take her to the Hospital since it was the fastest way to get lab work done. Besides taking a urine sample, they also drew blood for a Complete Blood Count test. When the results came back from the blood test, the doctor at the hospital told us we needed to be transferred to the Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center. When my wife and daughter arrived there and spoke with the Oncologist who analyzed the blood work, she told us 9 out of 10 times test results like these mean some sort of Leukemia.

By this time, its around 2:30pm that Thursday and my wife calls me at work and tells me I need to come to the hospital as soon as possible, and told me what the doctor said. These days, Leukemia isn't as much of a problem as it used to be with many breakthroughs in modern medicine. Many forms of Leukemia these days are curable while a few rare types are still more of a problem. On December 20th 2013. a bone marrow sample was taken from my daughters hip and the form of Leukemia was confirmed to be JMML (Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia). JMML affects around 3 of every 1 MILLION cases each year making it one of the rarest Leukemia's known.

The only hope my daughter has, is to under go Bone Marrow Transplant. If successful, this process will wipe out all of the bone marrow that is currently producing the Leukemia cells and replace it with a healthy marrow. This process is extremely long and as such has pulled my wife and I out of work to be able to provide the full time care needed for our daughter and family during this crisis. Currently, Arielle is at Albany Medical Center where she is under going Chemotherapy to control the Leukemia until a Bone Marrow donor has been selected and the marrow retrieved for the transplant procedure. My wife has been staying with Arielle at the hospital through out this whole process and visiting home as she can to spend time with the rest of the family.

Arielle will have her transplant at the Boston Children's Hospital and will be under the care of the Dana Farber Foundation. Boston is hoping to be ready for us in the next 4 to 6 weeks ( Mid February to March) to begin the process of saving her life. When this happens, we will be temporarily living there for 8 to 10 weeks while she recovers from the procedure.


Needs:
Our primary needs is purely financial. My wife and I have taken FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) from our places of employment. This means the regular flow of income is greatly diminished as we have to use what ever paid leave time we have available throughout this whole crisis. Simply put, neither of us have enough paid time off to cover several months of missed work we will have, and still need to pay the bills at home. We have deferred our student loans which were quite large but still need to be able to pay the mortgage and car payments. For this reason, I hope to raise some money in order to offset our income during this time will we are back home from Boston and able to return to work. Our mortgage is $1645.00 per month and our collective car payments in this Mazda family (2008 CX-9 GT & 2010 Mazdaspeed 3) is around $800 dollars. Four months of this is just under $10,000.00 and does not take into account other obvious costs such as utilities, fuel and food expenses.

For these reasons, I seek the help of our community."

Links:
Dana Farber Foundation
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Cancer Treatment and Research

Boston Children's Hospital
Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center —|—Boston Children's Hospital

Become a Bone Marrow Donor
Donate bone marrow"

Heads up for anyone in the military:
Be The Match Registry through DoD Members of the U.S. military.

(I just signed up. 10 minutes online, swab kit gets mailed and takes 3 minutes of work before mailing back. Blood pressure, Asthma, diabetes, etc will NOT prohibit you from this!)

Family picture at Albany Medical Center


my Wife Abby with Arielle


Arielle and I


Arielle off Oxygen now that the Chemotherapy has done its job.


Update 1/28/14: @CorkSport; posted on their facebook after starting a donation site designed for cancer assistance fundraising. If anyone feels worried ending $ through MSF, then click this link:
http://gfwd.at/1mxK8A1 and donate there, ok?


Here is the MSF FINAL total donations collected:
List of doNATORS as of 12 PM 1-31-2014 143 donations by 129+ DoNATORS! (If you do not see your name listed, I need a PM from you with your PAYPAL email! I got a few not listed!) for a total so far of....and if you do NOT want to be on the list, just post that in the message or PM me. $7340.35! total raised on MSF!

06speedemon
08blackmicaspeed3
08cosmic3
8.5MS3
865ms3
Abloodbrother
Ace Protege
adlpb
Alittlefox
almcbs
alphasaur
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anavrinIV
atvfreek
beachshoer/ itg3rl
big angry bird
Big Ivan
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bioevolve
Bioevolve
blackrs99
bluemarker
Bolted6
bo0okert
brandonf
Bujwazay
charlesfist
Chaser27
Cheapspeed
Cheese5.0
Chef_A2
Chron
Constantin
CosmicArkie
daafisch
Darthspeed3
diego_uru
Digital_Jedi
don06speed6
donjohnk
down_shift
dugedug
Easter Bunny
finalspeed
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galens47
Ganque
gigliotti175
glockman25
GongShow
Goodrich27
HalfWhit
Hanzodurrr
hawksfinebyme
Hush
illegal shishkebab
InkedInspector
jack_hammer
Jasbo
Jfishe
jk_ms3
john.e.stoner
Jokerface
jseams
Justin
kidlifecrisis
Kritz
Kyle Undefined
KyleMS32010
LakeSpeed6
Littleloogy
Load
Mach6
MacheteJames
Mauro_Penguin
MazdaBoy2.3
mazdapangolin
MBOIZ-MS3
Micha
MissVitesse6 / The Panda
mochi
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MS6FL
ms6mil
mxlplx71
MZRSPEED
Navy_Mech2
neganox
Nliiitend1—
ohger19
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Polish Man
Poohster
Private Donation (2)
punkk77
Raider
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Rebelgirl289
Redms308
RichTune
robertof
robry
Rokusek
Ryguy
rymanmazda
samc
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smoogs12
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SrananBuru
SrananBuru
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Stratified Automotive Controls
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Tommy
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zabbin123

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[doubleflusher]

Unfortunately, I have Type 1 Diabetes, so I've already been eliminated from becoming a bone marrow donor.

I will talk to my wife about this and see what we can do to help.

[Raider]

no worries. I cannot WAIT to get this posted in NATORwide.

[Haltech]

Ok guys, this is live...

[galens47]

Done $$ sent! Raider thank you for sharing this.

Cheers,

G

[Kyle Undefined]

Heart breaking, made eating lunch and not look like a sad sob hard. Will send monies when I get back to my desk. Will also look into becoming a marrow donor.


@Raider; @Haltech; Thank you for the thread.


Sent via TapaPhail

[illegal shishkebab]

I'm at work but when I back to home, I will donate and be donor.

God help you brother,

[xxdjfate76xx]

Money sent via paypal, good luck Jason, I wish the best for Arielle

[Rokusek]

Money coming shortly @Raider; I will be donating on the regular untill this is met. More car parts will be posted and sold to help out.

I will spread the word locally and to family.

-PJ

[Haltech]

You know a lot of us have kids and when you are a parent, i cannot express the amount of pain and mental anguish we go through when our kids are sick. Eric and I both have personally had sick kids... Its something that is a reality.. So, those who are able to help out, please do so.

[chaser27]

Don't have a ton to give, but hope this helps

Sent from the lead

[8.5MS3]

Sent in a donation. Let us know if you need anything else from the locals Jason

[Raider]

$170 so far....

Will total up end of day...

[SrananBuru]

Originally Posted by Haltech You know a lot of us have kids and when you are a parent, i cannot express the amount of pain and mental anguish we go through when our kids are sick. Eric and I both have personally had sick kids... Its something that is a reality.. So, those who are able to help out, please do so.

^This. With two kids under the age of 4, and one on the way, due in March, this is one of my greatest fears. I know the MSF family will step up.

[ganque]

Money sent. Anything for my Nator family. God bless them.

[InkedInspector]

Monies sent, will try to send a little more on payday. God bless!

Edit: As I sit here sad and angry I have to say fuck cancer. Had to get that out of my system.

[Jfishe]

Money sent. As most have said, will try to send even more in the future.
@Raider; this may be a perfect story to get sent to Chive Charities...if they pick this up it would make a drastic change.

[bo0okert]

Money Sent. I wish you and your family the best.

[SrananBuru]

Originally Posted by Jfishe Money sent. As most have said, will try to send even more in the future. @Raider; this may be a perfect story to get sent to Chive Charities...if they pick this up it would make a drastic change.

Just sent Raider a PM about this. It wouldn't hurt to try.

Edit: Ignore the PM then.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by Jfishe Money sent. As most have said, will try to send even more in the future. @Raider; this may be a perfect story to get sent to Chive Charities...if they pick this up it would make a drastic change.

I actually mentioned this to Jason too. They get hundreds of requests, and really, I think we outselves can reach the goal needed to make it so they can not worry about little crap like eating and gas and "OMG more fuckin diapers this kid is burning through them!".

The single most important thing any member can do is sign up for the registry. Second, if people can do it, donate and help them become stable for not working for several months.

[alphasaur]

Will donate when I get home.

[beachshoer]

A quick fity sent.

Do what you do @Raider;

[Vader]

Sent what I could.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by beachshoer A quick fity sent. Do what you do @Raider;

Will do.

Amazing support, and keep posting when you sign up for the registry, too!

Originally Posted by Vader Sent what I could.

Holy crap man, thank you! Putting us close to $500!

[Justin]

Money sent!

[CWP_MS3]

@Jasbo; cute baby girl man. I wish the best for you and your family.

[MissVitesse6]

@Raider;
@The Panda; and I are going to be sending money over your way once we get home. Tommy says he is going to look into the registry for bone marrow donation and see what he can do there to help. Having 2 babies at home this breaks my heart and I want to do as much as we can to help. Will be praying for their family.

[Jasbo]

Simply overwhelmed gang... words seem so cheap right now but with all my heart, Thank You!

Sent from my LG-E980 using Tapatalk

[Ezekiel81923]

I don't have much to donate financially, but I did sign up to be a bone marrow donor.

Best of luck with everything.

[stevehuff]

Pending if my allergies eliminate my registry chances, Ill be signing up for that. And If I can scrape some change together Ill try and donate.

Shes adorable, the picture of her smiling melts my heart.

[Raider]

OK, just sent $523.53 over to @Jasbo;

I will make a list and post everyone who has donated so far, on Monday.

KCCO

[john.e.stoner]

May I suggest setting up a site like "Go Fund Me" or something similar that can be linked to easily across MSF and Facebook? I donated what I can for now

[Raider]

Originally Posted by john.e.stoner May I suggest setting up a site like "Go Fund Me" or something similar that can be linked to easily across MSF and Facebook? I donated what I can for now

AWESOME!

Yeah, I thought about it, but I am old and know I can see what has come in, and can then send it out knowing no company has taken any of the$.

[Roddiy]

Suddenly all of my other problems seem so minimal. Don't have much but I'll send what I can once I get my paycheck cashed in.



Best of luck to the family, I hope little Arielle gets everything she needs.

[therza2169]

Donated what I could at this moment.

Good luck to you and your family.

[InkedInspector]

Originally Posted by stevehuff Shes adorable, the picture of her smiling melts my heart.

Not gonna lie, cried like a bitch when I saw her picture. She's a cutie, just a few months younger than my little girl.

[Hawksfinebyme]

Money sent... Will continue praying for the family and healing. Prayer is powerful!

[speed3okie]

Hope my contribution helps!

[SrananBuru]

@Jasbo; check your PM when you get a moment please.

[finalspeed]

Sent what I could at the moment.