Our first fundraiser

Just wanted to post our first fundraiser to raise money for funds for our next surgery trip to Cincinnati. 
We will once again be gone for at least 2 months when Maggie has her surgery for her bladder augmentation. If you have not been following or are just now following, our daughter Maggie had major surgery on May 22nd of this year. This surgery compromised of having her right kidney removed, most of her colon removed, bladderneck reconstruction surgery, ureter reimplant, Mitrofanoff ( a stoma to catherize her for urine) and a Malone(a stoma for her enemas). 
This mega surgery lasted over 10 hours and we spent almost a total of a month inpatient due to complications that happened afterwards. 
Since then we have been to Cincinnati two more times ( so a total of 3 trips to Cincinnati this year alone) , and let me tell you , medical travel is not cheap no matter how cheap you try and travel.  The discounted hotel bill racks up as you wait to get in the already always 100% full Ronald McDonald House there.  Medications had to be bought, insurance doesn't cover them cross state, and the supplies we have to purchase because our insurance now does not cover for them. Food to eat ( even though we buy from the grocery stores but know that you can't make a meal in a hotel room), gas so we can make our trip ,  and any last minute things that need to be bought while there too.  

The last fundraiser we raised almost $5,000. It took a lot of hard work on our part but it was worth every second of it, and know that we needed every single penny of what we had. 

With that said knowing we'll be gone once again for about the same amount of time,  we need to raise as much or close to as much as we did the last time, and to plan for extra time should any complications occur again ( hoping not). 

So here is our first fundraiser.  A brand new 37 inch Vizio flat screen t.v.   Tickets are 1 for $10 or two for $15.  We need to sell at least 300 tickets to make this worth while and we won't raffle it off until we do sell that many tickets. So if it takes us a month to sell all 300 tickets we'll raffle it off then.  If it takes two months, three months, well I think you get the point.  So please feel free to share this with friends, family , your church, community etc.    

If your interested in purchasing tickets please email me at : reedfamilypa at yahoo dot com ( wrote this way to deter spamers).