Fundraiser for Aaron Allston July 19th -- also PayPal & checks appreciated!

[alfreda89]

Austin, TX --

A fundraiser and auction to benefit the Aaron Allston Donation Fund will be held on Sunday, July 19, from 1-5 p.m. at Arbor A in San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow, Georgetown, TX. The Aaron Allston Donation Fund is a medical fund established by his friends to help Mr. Allston, an internationally known science fiction writer and author of several Star Wars novels, with large medical expenses recently incurred as a result of emergency bypass surgery. Mr. Allston is a long-time resident of Central Texas.

The link with info about the auction time and place, and the addresses for check and PayPal donations, is
here.

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I sometimes think I'm the only single writer I know who has personal health insurance. (I had to hunt it down, tag it and keep a GPA on it to hang onto it, but there you are...) And for what it costs, I know why. If you can, buy one less $5 item this week and then pass this message along. If everyone who sees it gives a few bucks, it will at least dent the mound of medical bills Aaron has amassed.

Comments

[lagilman]

There are many things I will play the odds on, but my medical care isn't one of them. My insurance, like yours, is expensive and mediocre, but it's there in case of disaster.

(Hell, look at what Jay Lake is going through, and tell me medical insurance isn't a necessity? Sometimes I wish the people yowling against insurance reform had to see, firsthand, what it's like being ill without insurance....)

/vent

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

It now helps that we have a president whose mother died young from ovarian cancer caught too late -- and beyond her means to treat. Most people are most worried about medical/economy or economy/medical. If we can just get it through those stubborn legislative heads!

In the Lyme community, we say that the first national senator or congresscritter who has a family member told: "Sorry, that's just damage, we can't treat it anymore, it's gone" will be the person to sponsor Lyme education and doctor immunity from prosecution in the House & Senate.

I don't know Jay personally -- I'm sorry to hear he's up this creek, too.

Sometimes I wish the people yowling against insurance reform had to see, firsthand, what it's like being ill without insurance....)

[lagilman]

Jay HAS insurance, through his day job -- but he's keeping track of the estimated cost of his cancer treatment, and it would have bankrupted the average citizen already, much less a freelancer or, gods forbid, someone out of work.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Eek. Tell him macrobiotics has put a lot of cancer patients into remission, if he feels driven to continue tweaking his treatment.

Definitely helping me....

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

do you know the people setting up the paypal link? it is possible, although I do not know how, to set paypal buttons up as "donation" links, which as far as I know means they don't get charged a pass through fee.

See an example of such button a page down on this link:
http://pecunium.livejournal.com/428770.html

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I would think the people setting this up know that -- one is a web designer, both vocation and avocation. But I'll try to remember to remind them, good catch --