Proving Love can Save
Two thousand dollars has been raised in the last 24 hours on Eric’s behalf! I’ve learned it’ll take $148 thousand more to get Eric on the transplant list. A heart transplant costs $780,000. The numbers seem insurmountable. Yet, I have faith anyway. I learned from the writer Herman Hesse in his book Siddhartha that loving is the most important thing that we will ever do as people. I believe it. And I believe one person can be all people. We’ve all read at least dozens of times from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.”
Veronica forwarded this note this morning:
If you have a facebook, myspace page or twitter account, please get this out there.
http://writechic.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/lean-on-reid/
Also, please forward it to as many people as you know.
I also need help with a few things:
- we are making tshirts to sell to fundraise, does anyone know a tshirt co? American Apparel perhaps?
- I need help working phones, scouring internet
- well-connected people willing to help fundraise.
In the past 24 hours we’ve raised 2k. A heart transplant is 780k. If we get at least 150k then we can get him on the list and hopefully I will be able to get his disability for him. Doctors say time is running out for him and we need to get him to a hospital where they can at least give him an LVAD or defibrillator. He is on 3 IV’s and that is the only thing keeping him alive. I don’t want to move him, but have to. I am scared to do this. I will have to race him to LA and to the ER. My heart is breaking. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
Please help in any way you can. I thank you.
Love,
Veronica
An amazing stranger created this website for Eric last night:
and a tough guy from the Bronx found his heart (though he’ll never say so):
This looks like the beginning of a momentum! That’s what my heart hopes. No heartfelt wish is too inconsequential. No donation is too meager. No post or link or kind word will go unappreciated.
<3 Melissa
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
Filed under: Health, Media, news, Politics Tagged: | Contact Senator Harry Reid, Eric De La Cruz, fundraising, Heart Transplant, Medicine, Nevada, Veronica De La Cruz
Well you know a quote from MLK always catches my attention. Also pretty women in Santa suits gets my attention too.
I wish I could just heal people, but I’m not the son of God either. I hope he gets the remaining $148k in time.
Good Post.
Thank you, Tim. And Veronica’s a beauty inside and out:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/images/delacruz.veronica.jpg
Eric is lucky to have such a sister. She’d never just wring her hands, fret, and be swallowed up in despair. She aims to move a mountain.
Hi !
First of all, I am with you with all my heart!
I read that Veronica needs some brand t-shirt…and as it is my profession… I really think that American apparel is very expensive to make such a production…I want to know if she wants to print on a plain t-shirt… ?perhaps you can go with
fruit of the loom, pima apparel, Gildan, hanes tongyi-textile
one I have found very interesting (price and infos)
http://www.blankshirts.com/T-Shirts.htm
you have most of the brands there
If there is anything else I can do to help…just tell me..It will be my pleasure
love xXxx
B =)
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