I have to tell you a story. I know a lot of my blog friends are newer to reading our blog. You may or may not have been reading a year ago when Kyleigh had her open heart surgeries. Just to recap I need to tell you a story. A story about one of the most beautiful people I know. Her name is Julie Williams. She, her husband David, and their 5 children live just outside of Salt Lake City, UT. Julie is a TWO time cancer survivor. She has helped me make it through some of the toughest times of my life. Talking to me into the wee hours of the night when I could not sleep, comforting me when I could find no other comfort, praying for me when I could not pray for myself, dropping her entire life and packing up to come to Kentucky when Kyleigh had her open heart surgery. She found childcare for her 5 kids and made her way to me when I needed her most. Julie is also the photographer that I recently showed you a clip of about NILMDTS. She has been shooting up to 6 session PER WEEK for months now.

And now she finds herself falling upon hard times. Because of her past health issues, fighting and winning her battles with Cancer, she is no longer insurable. No healthy insurance company will give her insurance. Julie and her family are going through serious financial hardship at this time.
Julie has been sick for a while and is having a radical hysterectomy on April 1st, for which she has no insurance to cover. Needless to say this is taking a very hard financial toll on her family, and they do have 5 children, which makes things even harder. Things have been slow for both her business and her husbands business since the end of last year. They were already behind on bills and things are slowly being turned off.

It breaks my heart that I literally have NOTHING to give to my dear friend who has been there for me every single time I have asked of her. It kills me inside to know that I have to sit here in Kentucky and due to our own financial hard times I cannot even go to her. Two years of battling for Kyleigh has done a number on our finances and we are finally feeling the ripple effect turn into a wave.

I am not a person who will ever ask for money for myself… us… we will find a way… my friend Julie… she cannot find a way for herself right now. But please say a prayer tonight for Julie and if you find it in your heart to send even $5 or $10 to Jewels please know that from the bottom of my heart I could never thank you enough for giving to this dearest friend of mine.

The other friend who came to my rescue over a year ago is Cristy Nielsen. She has taken on the task of organizing this fundraiser. I truly hope that we can come up with the money Julie needs to have this surgery. It is estimated that she needs $15,000 to cover it… I know that seems like a huge amount but if we all gave just a little then that would add up to a LOT!

If you have questions … please email Cristy at cristy@cristynielsen.com or contact me at 407-619-1359 to find out where to donate funds for Julie and her family or send your funds via paypal directly to Julie at jeweleeboo@msn.com.

The small favor that I ask is that you let Julie know that your donation is in honor of Ky’s blog. She NEEDS to know that the GOOD she has put out into the world CAN and WILL come back to her.

PS… stay tuned … within the next week I will announce the complete plans for Lilie’s trip to the Ocean!!! YES it will happen. YES we raised the money! YES it is 100% funded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to all who donated… they will be heading to Daytona Beach the last week of April!!!

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