Ellijay couple battles for time

September 9, 2005

In a message dated 9/9/2005 5:34:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

writes:

Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:20:37 EDT

rjwhiggins

Ellijay couple battles for time.

Thanks to list mom Chris for permission to post this!!

This is RJ, from http://www.HerbalSoapsbyRJ.com. My BIL Danny is in liver

failure & the only chance he has of survival is if we can raise the money

for a

liver transplant. When we reach $30,000 (10% of the total amount we need to

raise) he will be put on the transplant list. Suzanne (a member of our

Soapin'

List) & Danny have three sons, Daniel, 16, Andrew, 9 and Joseph, 6. Daniel

recently asked his mom,Suzanne, what they would do if Daddy died. Please

help us

by making a donation, no matter how small. Every dollar is a dollar closer

to

life for Danny. Below is an article run in the Gilmer County Newspaper, The

Times Courier, about a fundraiser in October in Ellijay, Ga. If you are in

that

area, I hope you can attend! I'll be there for the entire day, and we would

love to meet you! Below that is info about The Danny Laukka Liver Transplant

Fund which is for direct donations.

..

>>> Meanwhile, I sure hope Danny is getting lots of Milk Thistle and

dandelion. They have been known to work liver miracles.

mjh

" The Basil Book "

http://foxhillfarm.us/FireBasil/

September 11, 2005

Danny was diagnosed with advanced hepatitus C & given 3 weeks to

live four years ago. They couldn't give him any treatment, because it

it would kill him even quicker. We started him on a an herbal liver and

kidney cleanse, brewed green tea for him to drink, and other herbs &

vitamins and his liver started functioning fairly well again. After 3

years he started retaining fluid, turning yellow & developed purpura.

We started him on additional herbs and mushroom tea and he improved

enough to get him to this point. He is a walking miracle!!! But we'd

like to keep him even longer! )

RJ )

> >>> Meanwhile, I sure hope Danny is getting lots of Milk Thistle and

> dandelion. They have been known to work liver miracles.

>

> mjh

September 12, 2005

After all the months of reading these wonderful posts, I've decided to post

myself - for a couple of reasons:

1. This particular post really struck me in a soft spot. My sister had spinal

fusion requiring a blood transfusion after an accident and within a year was

diagnosed with Hep C. She is a single mother of a disabled child and, of

course, very special to us. I would appreciate anyone sharing any recipes,

thoughts or combination natural treatments that have proven effective. Although

I do make soaps and other items, my degree is in psychology and I have 2

Certifications for Complimentary Alternative Medicine - therefore, I use only

all natural herbs and oils and only steam pressed or cold distilled - never

solvent extracted oils. My herbs are all obtained directly from the farm and

are organic. My beeswax I personally go to the bee-farm and choose. I add this

information because using herbs and essential oils as complimentary alternative

medicine is my privilege and responsibility. I will soon be adding office hours

at a well respected local Dr.'s office, but alas, my sister lives 3000 miles

from me so any thoughts or treatments I could research and consider are

appreciated. Our prayers for Ellijay's peace and comfort.

2. I have read many, many emails on multiple sites regarding Katrina efforts

and I must applaud us all. As healers and nurturers we have all come together

to help others in need. Although not badly effected here in Florida, I know how

much it means to those effected to know that others truly care enough to make

personal sacrifices to help. So, thank you, from all of those effected. Our

family has made a donation of $1000 to the Red Cross and $500 to the Salvation

Army. We know it's not a lot, but we hope we can help someone. In addition,

you all set such great examples that we wished that we could afford to donate

100% of all profits but as a new business, we are struggling a bit so we've

pledged 70% of the profits from all of our web, email and phone orders to the

Red Cross for the next 90 days at minimum. Your emails about giving and

pledging are inspirational! Although we've always used what we call

" traditional medicine " , we are fairly new to the web world and we ask that you

help us help others by visiting our web, sending us and email or giving us a

call - every small order adds up to more relief and we want to give as much as

we can. Our website is still under construction so thanks to you all for

bearing with us.

If anyone has any other thoughts on how we can help, please email us offline at

main<main or

motherearthsapotehcary<motherearthsapotehcary Our

hopes for healing go out to all the victims of this natural disaster and those

of 9/11. Please consider actively finding a way to help all the victims if you

can. Red Cross needs blood donations, especially AB-, cash, pledges for future

help and volunteers. Go to www.redcross.org<http://www.redcross.org/> to see

how you can help. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Katherine Quillen

Owner/Mother Earth's Apothecary

305-468-9932