Hi friends! This is a bit of a different post for us, but it is on my heart to share.
What is the point of building a community of like-minded adventurers, if we don’t support and love and hold up our fellow adventure families when their world is falling apart?
A few weeks back I received an email asking us to jump on the Born Wild Project Team. This is besides the point but it leads to my first connection with Penny and her family. See as I was opening my email, and sipping coffee, their lives were transitioning from adventuring down the trail to adventuring down the hallways of Children’s Hospital.
They had just found out their lively daughter Penny has a brain tumor. In the last week, “she has gone through X-ray, CT scan, ultrasound, ER visit, 4 nights in the ICU, 3 sedated MRI’S, 2 brain surgeries and 4 IV’s.”
The family is home now and moving forward with treatments, but as you can imagine the trauma and medical costs are overwhelming. And that is where we can all come in!
If you feel led to contribute financially, please head over to the Go Fund Me Page, Positive Vibes for Penny, and donate. Every little bit helps!
Pennies for Penny
And starting tonight, March 24 at 7pm MST there is an Instagram auction to help raise money. Hop on over to @penniesforpenny and place a few bids. The auction items are amazing but even more so, the money goes straight to the Thornley family.
Thank you Kid Project Friends!
-Alyssa
I’m not sure if they have heard about this site but it might help, http://ironmatt.org . I’m in the finance industry and this was set up by someone else in the industry who lost their child to a brain tumor. Now that I have a two year old at home I cannot fathom what it would be like going through this. Thank you for the post and the links.