Yard Sale Success

Last weekend Janine, Jeff, and I had our round two yard sale fundraiser for Lyme Disease Treatment. It was a big success and a lot of work! Between the 2 sales we must have had 15-20 people donate items. Everyone was so generous with the quality and size of their donations. Janine's backyard looked like a genuine thrift store, with a little bit of everything you could imagine. On top of it we had a bake sale. It was a lot of work, but it felt good to know that we were all helping each other to get the treatment we need. Lyme literate doctors don't take insurance and most things need to be paid for up front and out of pocket.

Thanks to the generous donations and Janine's obsessive purging :-) we raised over $700 this time around making our grand total around $1300! That's amazing for a yard sale. Thank you to Janine and Jeff who worked so very hard even as their bodies were begging them to stop, to Rachel for asking again and again how she could help, to Sean and Linda and their kids for their generosity and loving support, to friends like Ambrosia, Leanna, Josh, Jim, and many others who delivered donations of awesome things. Thank you also to Asia who diligently worked the bake sale and sold a lot of cookies. And a big thank you to my husband who is there for me no matter what. I couldn't do this without his love, support, strong arms, and awesome truck. We could not have done this with out the support from each of you.

With my part of the money from the first go round I was able to pay for a doctors apt. with my LLMD. The money from this second adventure in yard sale land will help to pay for refills of my many supplements and herbs and hopefully will last long enough to pay for some of my next Dr. visit in June. I have also been receiving donations from wonderful friends through the donate button at the top of the page and have used those to pay for lab work and medicine. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! The love and support I have received form my community has put a warmth in my heart, a smile on my face, and relieved some of the worry of paying for health care on a limited income. I'm not sure exactly how Janine and Jeff are using their part of the money but I do know that they can now afford to pay for their first visit with a LLMD!!! Horray.

I'm still tired and resting from our weekend adventure and I know Jeff and Janine are as well. It takes a while to rebound from such efforts and I appreciate your understanding and patience with me.

Thanks again from the bottom of my heart.