February Charity Luncheon Reminder…..HELP!!
It’s time to start our monthly charity luncheons again. We begin with our first one of the new year tomorrow, February 3 at noon.
You may have noticed that I put “HELP!!” in the title. That’s because while we believe all our charity events are important, this one’s much more important.
Last week, I learned of a 17-year-old girl who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Prior to this horrible news, she attended a local high school and had a typical teenage life. Now, she has been diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma. The doctors could not do surgery to remove the mass from her chest because it is attached to one of her lungs and her heart. The mass is the size of a baseball. She began chemotherapy on January 25 and has six months of it to go. During treatment she will be staying at MUSC several days per week.
The reason we are sponsoring this young woman and her family is that, as is all too often the case, her insurance will not cover all of the expenses. In fact, she must go on a very expensive medication and her insurance company has refused to pay for it. She has secured a discount from the pharmaceutical company, but that just means she’ll pay, in essence, what the Canadians pay. There will still be substantial costs for treatment. Our firm and the Steinberg Law Firm will do our best to help with the insurance issue to make sure her insurance company is held accountable for paying all costs they agreed to pay in the policy.
We will be holding a raffle for a framed picture taken by Michael Mulligan. In fact, it’s the same raffle we had about six months ago. My wife bought several tickets and won it. We’ve been planning to put it up for another raffle, and this one seems like it should be the one.
Please join us for this important luncheon and donate whatever you can! And please keep this young woman in your thoughts and prayers.
–Russ DeMott
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