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Friday, July 3, 2009

48 for Larry, Help save this friend to all #48forlarry

Larry Hamm over at Chelsea Lynn Designs on Artfire is a friend of many in the world of handmade, he is also the voice of The Crazy Train on Blockhead Radio. Larry has a fantastic wife Janet, and an 8 year old son Jacob who live with him in Lansing, NC deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Larry is a friend to everyone and just an all around swell guy. He is most definitely the “shirt off your back” kind of friend. Right now, all of Larry’s friends and Blockhead radio are teaming up to help him out in a tough time.

Larry is a disabled diabetic who currently has lost his health insurance. His medication alone monthly is over $2,000. Larry is not receiving disability, he has not been approved yet. His wife is the only source of income and she doesn’t make enough to cover his medications. Larry’s doctors have given him an outlook of only 18 months to live if he doesn’t receive a $17,000 gastric bypass surgery as soon as possible. Larry and his family need all the help from their family and friends they can get! Jacob and Janet need Larry to hang around here with them as long as he possibly can! All of his friends surely want Larry to stick around too!

All of us at Blockhead Radio are gearing up for the biggest Radiothon you’ll ever be a part of! July 24th at 6pm until July 26th at 6pm, Blockhead Rod will be live on the radio for 48 hours straight raising money for our friend Larry. A silent auction of donated handmade goods will also be going up on the home page of Blockhead Radio with 100% of the proceeds going to Larry.

If you would like to be a part of this wonderful event, please email DeDe Sorensen at: 48forlarry@blockheadradio.com Please donate any handmade items you can for the silent auction have your emails in with your donations by July 22nd. If you would like to donate cash for Larry’s prescriptions and surgery please visit Blockhead Radio July 24th through July 26th. There will be plenty of ways to get your donations in.

Keep listening to Blockhead Radio for fantastic indie music, and how you can help Larry Hamm of Chelsea Lynn Designs.

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7 comments:

Live, Love, Laugh, Write! said...

I hope we're able to do a lot to help! (hugs)

Anonymous said...

Fan the Facebook 48 for Larry Group on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117755993833#/group.php?gid=107510641245

And RSVP to the event, and invite your friends via facebook also:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117755993833#/event.php?eid=117755993833

Kharisma Sommers said...

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vote larry up on votehandmade too!

smiss00.artfire.com said...

I'm totally up for helping with this! :D

Auroras_Garden said...

I am all over this! We gonna help you out Larry just sit back and feel the love!

My Magic Me Studios said...

Larry my prayers are with you and you family and like Aurora said sit back and smile we are all over this! We have all been in a dark place at one time or another but find comfort in knowing that you have friends that will help you get through this one.
Hugs,
Jen @ My Magic Me

Marilyn said...

Most of the drug companies will provide needed medications at little or no cost in situations like this. You should go thru your doctor or contact the drug company directly.

I called my doctor's office to cancel an appointment because I just didn't have the money to pay anymore. The woman I spoke with told me about this and set me up to receive free medications until I got a job with insurance.