HOW YOU CAN HELP
Hello Again,
Many thanks to all of you who have so generously offered to help the Bindners. It means so much to them.
As I mentioned on the blog earlier (and please refer to the blog for a weekend update: http://lindabindner.blogspot.com-- it's much easier for me to make general announcements there. I met two women in the hospital elevator who had read the blog-- from Georgia.), Linda is NOT coming home, but will be transferred instead to Rusk Rehabilitation Center instead.
The purpose of this email is to ask you to revise your generous offers: Don will be returning to Kirksville and the looming prospect of single fatherhood this week. It would be lovely to eliminate meal preparation from his tasks for the next few weeks.
Additionally, Don and Ellie will need social interaction, so I would like to schedule both meals to be deliverd to their home, and one meal per week HOSTED IN SOMEONE'S HOME for as many months (yes months) as we can to ensure Don's continued support. I mentioned the idea to him, and he was very receptive. We thought Thursday nights regularly, though I am sure he would be very open to other nights as well :).
I have my first volunteers for this Thursday already, and I know Lynn Carter has a meal in her freezer :) already.
NOTE: DON WILL NOT BE BACK IN KIRKSVILLE THURSDAY FEB. 19
I think the easiest way for me to do this would be for you to email what you would like to do: deliver a meal, invite them for a meal, (gift certificates would be great too-- remember that two year olds love McDonalds!), provide a gift certificate, or anything else you can think of. With your permission, I will create a schedule and post it on the blog. If you could indicate dates/days that you are NOT available, or an alternative to Thursday night, that would be great.
Our fundraiser is shaping up nicely! Royce gave me 50 numbered tickets this evening.
Tickets are also on sale through: Royce Kallerud (785-6009), Christine Harker (785-6018), and Becky Becker (bbecker@truman.edu), and Jen Creer (626-2399), and Dereck Daschke (785-6005) Obviously, since I am not on campus, it might be wise to try the other folks first. We are also trying to arrange for a table at the SUB this week.
The text of the tickets follows:
Benefit for Linda Bindner
Friday, February 20, 6:00 p.m. @ the DuKum Inn Upstairs
Music by Redwing, Beyond the Gael, and Special Guests
Appetizers at 6:00/Music at 7:00
$20.00 donation suggested/$10.00 for students
All proceeds will support the Bindner family
Please make checks payable to "Don Bindner"
If anyone knows of a way to make digital recordings or has that capacity, it would be great if we could make a recording that I can then burn onto a CD so Linda can hear well-wishes and the benefit-- this way she is not restricted by having someone read to her. Can you let me know if you know how to do this? And could arrange it? :)
Th th th th that's all, folks! Thanks again for your amazing support.
Jen
P.S. Don will be in Columbia most weekends and will not need meals then. However, he will need child care from time to time for Ellie, as these trips are a strain for a toddler.
Also, and this is particularly for my college student readers, ideally, if Don could count on babysitters two nights per week to help with Ellie, that would really ease Linda's mind. If those of you who are organizing babysitting help for this Friday night could also ask around about regular childcare for Ellie, that would be much appreciated.
jc
Hello Again,
Many thanks to all of you who have so generously offered to help the Bindners. It means so much to them.
As I mentioned on the blog earlier (and please refer to the blog for a weekend update: http://lindabindner.blogspot.com-- it's much easier for me to make general announcements there. I met two women in the hospital elevator who had read the blog-- from Georgia.), Linda is NOT coming home, but will be transferred instead to Rusk Rehabilitation Center instead.
The purpose of this email is to ask you to revise your generous offers: Don will be returning to Kirksville and the looming prospect of single fatherhood this week. It would be lovely to eliminate meal preparation from his tasks for the next few weeks.
Additionally, Don and Ellie will need social interaction, so I would like to schedule both meals to be deliverd to their home, and one meal per week HOSTED IN SOMEONE'S HOME for as many months (yes months) as we can to ensure Don's continued support. I mentioned the idea to him, and he was very receptive. We thought Thursday nights regularly, though I am sure he would be very open to other nights as well :).
I have my first volunteers for this Thursday already, and I know Lynn Carter has a meal in her freezer :) already.
NOTE: DON WILL NOT BE BACK IN KIRKSVILLE THURSDAY FEB. 19
I think the easiest way for me to do this would be for you to email what you would like to do: deliver a meal, invite them for a meal, (gift certificates would be great too-- remember that two year olds love McDonalds!), provide a gift certificate, or anything else you can think of. With your permission, I will create a schedule and post it on the blog. If you could indicate dates/days that you are NOT available, or an alternative to Thursday night, that would be great.
Our fundraiser is shaping up nicely! Royce gave me 50 numbered tickets this evening.
Tickets are also on sale through: Royce Kallerud (785-6009), Christine Harker (785-6018), and Becky Becker (bbecker@truman.edu), and Jen Creer (626-2399), and Dereck Daschke (785-6005) Obviously, since I am not on campus, it might be wise to try the other folks first. We are also trying to arrange for a table at the SUB this week.
The text of the tickets follows:
Benefit for Linda Bindner
Friday, February 20, 6:00 p.m. @ the DuKum Inn Upstairs
Music by Redwing, Beyond the Gael, and Special Guests
Appetizers at 6:00/Music at 7:00
$20.00 donation suggested/$10.00 for students
All proceeds will support the Bindner family
Please make checks payable to "Don Bindner"
If anyone knows of a way to make digital recordings or has that capacity, it would be great if we could make a recording that I can then burn onto a CD so Linda can hear well-wishes and the benefit-- this way she is not restricted by having someone read to her. Can you let me know if you know how to do this? And could arrange it? :)
Th th th th that's all, folks! Thanks again for your amazing support.
Jen
P.S. Don will be in Columbia most weekends and will not need meals then. However, he will need child care from time to time for Ellie, as these trips are a strain for a toddler.
Also, and this is particularly for my college student readers, ideally, if Don could count on babysitters two nights per week to help with Ellie, that would really ease Linda's mind. If those of you who are organizing babysitting help for this Friday night could also ask around about regular childcare for Ellie, that would be much appreciated.
jc
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