Gold Coast Cares for St. Jude

Back in November when the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk was cancelled, due to Hurricane Sandy, we attended an open house at St. Jude's ALSAC NYC office.

"ALSAC is the fundraising organization of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.  ALSAC exists solely to raise the funds necessary to operate and maintain St. Jude. The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $1.8 million, which is primarily covered by public contributions.  During the past five years, 81 cents of every dollar received has supported the research and treatment at St. Jude."
                                                            -St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

 

We met some wonderful people at the NYC office!  They have since invited us, as guests, to attend the Gold Coast Cares for St. Jude fundraising event on April 6th at Oheka Castle.  We were so honored to be asked and we are just so excited to go and help further support St. Jude!  We will be bringing Morgan (and Hunter too, of course!) along so that everyone there can see what wonderful care St. Jude is able to provide with all the generous donations they receive, not only at this event, but throughout the year.  We are one of two St. Jude families attending.  I was told that they would be doing a little write up on Morgan and would also like to mention our Helping Hands 4 Morgan team from the walk!  Which, by the way, we've had many people express interest in joining the team and/or donating for this years Give Thanks Walk in November 2013 so we will keep you all posted on the info as soon as we know anything.  The walk will definitely be an annual event for us!

Thanks for all the wonderful Birthday wishes for Morgan that were left on Sarah's facebook page!  Adam and I are probably some of the last people on this planet not to have facebook accounts so sometimes we forget to check the site and Sarah kindly reminds us every once in awhile to take a look.  In the future, if you would like, you could always leave a message directly on this blog.  We love hearing from you all, it always lifts our spirits knowing how much support our entire family has had from everyone!!

Last, but certainly not least, we wanted to take a minute to say a big THANK YOU to Peconic Pediatrics!!!  I'm always writing how much we love St. Jude but we also love you guys too, we would not be at St. Jude if it wasn't for you and Morgan surely would not have been diagnosed so early without your excellent care and speedy actions, reactions, and responses to everything that followed!  EVERYONE there takes such wonderful care of both Morgan and Hunter and is ALWAYS so friendly and helpful with whatever we need.  You guys are the best of the best and we just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate everything you do!

Morgan has an MRI scheduled for March 22nd.  We will update on her results as soon as we can and will be sure write a post after the fundraiser as well!

Hope you all have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!