When
we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya
Angelou
As my three loyal readers
know, I occasionally blog about a need someone has in Real Life (RL) and tell
everyone how they can help in Second Life (SL) if they’re both willing and able
to do so.
Most of these are one-time
requests and I don’t often get a lot of feedback on what happens. (The last thing people in need should worry
about is getting back to me!)
However, I’m happy to be able
to give a progress report on one of these requests for assistance.
XMarieX
(Marie) Fairport is a woman living with diabetes in RL.
SL has become somewhere she
can go to cope with the distress and chronic pain that this disease causes
her.
A while back, I blogged
about her efforts to raise $15,000US to acquire a diabetic service dog from
Diabetic Alert Dogs of
America (DADA) to help improve the quality of her life and to potentially
save it as well.
Recently, Marie has cleared
her first hurdle in acquiring her service dog.
She’s successfully raised the down payment for her dog (To be called
Musketeer.) and is now number 23 on the waiting list with DADA.
Approximatively six weeks from
now, Marie'll be on the top of the list and DADA will begin to look for her dog
(already named Musketeer Puppy) according to her needs and
When Musketeer Puppy has been
located, DADA will send Marie a scent kit.
She'll provide scent samples (spit) of her low, normal and high blood
sugar levels. The scent kit will be sent back and the samples will be used to
train Musketeer.
While all of this will be
going on, Marie’ll receive weekly updates, photos, and videos that she’ll be
sharing of what Musketeer has been successfully trained to do, what he is
currently working on, field trips he's taken and how he did. Seems Musketeer will get to go to Target,
Wal-Mart, restaurants, etc.
Sounds like Musketeer’s going
to be a busy dog!
Now, for the best part!
How can we help Marie get
Musketeer?
Here’s how!
First, contributions can now
be made directly to DADA!
At the bottom BLUE part of the
page, second from the right, click on PAYMENTS.
Click BUY NOW.
In the description, type
MUSKETEER PUPPY, enter an amount and continue.
Verify the payment type (credit card, debit card or PayPal) and know
that your help is greatly appreciated by Marie and her family!
(Important: You must enter "MUSKETEER PUPPY" in
the payment description, othe wise those funds will be "lost").
Donations can ALSO be made via
L$ to XMarieX Fairport.
Also to any Wells Fargo Bank,
let them know you wish to donate to MUSKETEER THE DIABETIC ALERT DOG.
The down payment is just the
first step! Half of the remaining balance
is due the end of October.
How else can you help?
Not everyone can always afford
to donate even if they want to.
But, you can help in other
ways!
First, share this story with
it’s links to your friends and ask them to help
Next, keep Marie and her family
in your thoughts and prayers! These do
help!
I know other people’s thoughts
and prayers have helped me in my life.
(Significant Other nods in agreement.)
Marie will be keeping all of
us up to date with any new information about this life saving Service Dog at http://mariesdog.blogspot.com/
Be sure to check it out!
I’ll also be doing another
update as we get closer to knowing who Musketeer is!
Marie would like to thank
everyone who has contributed, shared her story, and prayed for her!
If you’re ever inworld when
she is, give her a shout out! She’d love
to talk with you!
Thanks in advance from me for
whatever you decide to do!
I’d like to thank Marie for
taking the time to chat with me about Musketeer and I wish her every success in
her endeavors!
As always, I’m grateful to all
inworld for their kindness and time in stopping to talk with a stranger who was
passing through their lives.
I can be found on Google+ as
webspelunker Ghostraven.
On Skype I’m webspelunker
Ghostraven.
I welcome feedback from
readers, please either comment on my blog or
e-mail me at webspelunker@gmail.com
.
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Open roads
and kind fires!
2 comments:
It would be really cool if Marie or someone else in SL made a "Musketeer" puppy (animated or not) you could buy, with the proceeds going to help this project.
She has to purchase a service dog? Why?
I'll share this article.
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