Help misdee and Peter - NOW

[hub2dee]

Hi all,

I am sure loads of you have followed misdee's posts about her dh, Peter, who needs a heart transplant urgently.

His op tomorrow will buy him some time, but a heart transplant will be needed very soon.

So many people have posted with love and hugs, asking what they could do to help etc. and misdee has previously mentioned carrying donor cards or going on the Organ Donor Register , but I'm sure many of you, like me, feel utterly powerless to assist in any other useful way at all.

Well....

Now there is something you can do.

Harefield Hospital is about 60 miles away from misdee's house and as she is still learning to drive, her folks or her sister, sparklymieow, give her a lift several times a week. The petrol for the trip costs about £10 for the return journey. As you can imagine, doing this every other day soon adds up. If you can, will you sponsor a journey to Harefield ?

Whilst misdee is away from her kids, she also needs baby sitting services, which also add to the cost of each visit. Any sum at all can be used to cover a baby sitter to give misdee a break so she can spend some time with Peter. Could you donate whatever it costs you to hire a babysitter for an hour ?

Peter is facing a pretty major operation tomorrow, and I thought it might be nice to show support by offloading some of this financial burden from misdee, just so life is that little bit easier IYSWIM. She has enough to handle without getting into debt to fund visits to the hospital.

I have run this by MN HQ who have been really supportive of the idea. If more money than needed comes in, misdee can donate it to the Heart Unit at Harefield Hospital, which is under threat of closure.

One of Peter's inspirations in this terrifying journey is a guy called John Fisher. He had his transplant on the 30th July 2000. You can read more at his site here . Accordingly, MN HQ will collect cheques made payable to S Williams until 30th July 2005:

Mumsnet misdee
PO Box 657
Ipswich
IP1 9AE

You can also make a contribution by paypal directly to misdee's paypal address which is djmisdee @ hotmail.nospam.com

(remove the spaces and the .nospam).

misdee, I hope you will allow everyone on MN who cares for you to help you out a little and we hope Peter's heart comes soon.

Please be generous lovely MNers, all of it will help.

Feel free to bump until 30th July !

Will put a cheque for a taxi in the post today. Lots of love and luck to Misdee, Peter and familyX

fantastic. three cheers for MN!!!

will send it off today hope it takes some of the practical burden away xx

Isn't this lovely! Sat here crying!

Great idea hub.

Will be thinking of you and your family today misdee x

Gret idea, Paypal makes it very easy to help out.....

Really hoping things are OK for Misdee and her family xxx

great idea!

already have a parcel waiting to go to her, will see what i can do and send it direct.

Sorry, reading through all this and have got lost - is PayPal or cheque the easiest? Paypal is easier for me to do

Thanks

Good idea. Yes of course - will do.

MN stars !

Paypal is easiest IMHO. It will be done in 30 seconds, and misdee can use it straight away.

If you don't have paypal, and can afford it, a cheque, of any amount, will help misdee spend time with Peter. Both her and Peter are knackered, but there is still along way to go on their journey.

His op today is about as 'major' as major surgery gets.

If you want to give online, sign up for a paypal account. It's very easy and you can use it to pay for all sorts of things on ebay / other Web sites or send 'cash' to anyone with a paypal account, so you can buy even small things on MN etc. I think sending and receiving cash between personal users is free of all charges (but a paypal expert might be able to elaborate).

what a great idea. Have sent some via paypal.

good luck misdee

Hubsdee, you really are a star, your wife and child (v soon!) are very lucky to have such a caring and generous man............
Well done you for organising this

Done the PayPal route

Please let us know if there is anything else we can do, & thanks for the great idea and setting it all up

Hub2Dee, you're a star. The cheque's in the post.

when you make a payment thru paypal - I am getting up a drop down box that asks category of purchase? what do I put? ta

I don't think it matters, I think I put "payment" or closest to that???!

wonderful idea. have never posted on her threads before cos i feel so crap and useless, she must be an amazing lady to pull them all through this. glad there is something constructive we can do

emily - just put 'service'

Thanks Katierocket.."service"...doh!

have done paypal v easy thanks hub2dee!

fab idea, just done its very easy with paypal,

Gigglinggolbin - me too. Nice to think that you can help in a practical way isn't it?

Ds was born 7 years ago today, very premature - we went to hell and back in his first few months, but now have a healthy, lovely little lad - nice to help someone who's need is greater than your own (and feel very, very lucky)