Thank you!

Dear Friends,      

Thank you so much for helping my daddy and me go to America so that I can get some special therapy treatments.  I like my physical and occupational therapists here in Greece, but daddy says maybe the other ones can help even more. I hope so. We get to leave on the big airplane on January 8, 2010!

We are not 100% sure that it will help me but we won’t know until we try, so thank you for helping us try something that might help me learn to talk and walk and sit and hold things and feed myself.  Wow!  I am getting tired just thinking about the possibilities!

If you want to read more about the clinic and the therapy we plan to experience, you can find information at: www.hbot.com

I am very grateful for your help.  Mommy and daddy are very grateful too.  I heard them crying and thanking God for such loving and caring and generous friends.  They told me that I am blessed to be in a family that God has given so many good friends to.  I believe they are right!

I hope some day you can see me, or see a video of me, doing the things we hope God will help me to do.  Until then, thanks for your help with the therapy and for your prayers on our behalf.

Love and Thanks,

Ellie MingYun McCracken

Update on Ellie's Medical Fund...

Dear Praying Friends,

WOW!  Thanks for praying!   Here is what has happened since we sent out the Q & A last weekend...

1.  A Greek couple we know contacted us and said, "We would like to offer a "matching challenge" of up to $5,000 Euros (about $7,300 USD)."  In other words, for every dollar/Euro given by someone else, they will give a dollar/Euro, up to 5,000 Euros (about $7,300 USD).  

I honestly don't know how this couple is able to do this, but this is what they have offered, and we want to humbly and gratefully communicate it to you.   So if you would like to be a part of this effort for Ellie's therapy opportunity, now your contribution can work TWICE  as much!  For every dollar you give, our Greek friends will give another dollar!

Also, another couple from China and a couple from the States wrote to say they were planning to help in some way.  Additionally,  an American friend who lives in Afghanistan wrote to say he is donating some stock to I.T. on our behalf.  

 

It has truly been an international outpouring of love: people from Pakistan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Italy, Greece, America, Denmark, Finland, Dutch people living in France, an American living in Afghanistan, and China.

If you already sent something before receiving this, THANK YOU!  Your investment will count double as well.  I had originally forgotten to include food and local transportation costs in the initial estimate so I am sure God knew that before I realized it.  :) 

Also, my original email said that we will need a MINIMUM of $10,000 US dollars for the FIRST round of 40 treatments of HBOT, accommodations, and plane tickets.  ANYTHING COMING IN BEYOND this will go toward the second round of treatments if we go that route.

SERIOUSLY, we are STUNNED and OVERWHELMED by the quick, loving, caring, prayerful generosity that has gone above and beyond the usual amazing demonstrations of your partnership with us.  We thank God and we thank you (for letting God use you).  

2.  Although nobody's U.S. insurance will yet pay for HBOT, one positive result of our recent update was that a confusion about our insurance coverage for Ellie was cleared up (thanks, Dianne), and it will pay for some of the OTHER "normal" medical/therapy issues related to Ellie's CP.