Sponsor A Night

I know we have asked a lot of you in the past and I'll be calling all of you to join in our Letters for CDH (http://lettersforcdh.blogspot.com) project in the coming months, but I'm asking for your help on a current project. Don't worry...in a few months, you will be asked to send out as many blue envelopes as you can afford to send! :)

The following is the text I sent out in a mass email and wanted to share here as well:

"A little background: We moved to Hillsborough, NC on Sept. 20, 2008 to be close to Duke University Medical Center. Our son, Carter, was born at Duke on October 7, 2008 with a deadly birth defect called Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) and he spent 115 days in the NICU at Duke. He was given a 50% chance at survival. Carter miraculously survived CDH and on January 30, 2009, we brought him home. For those 4 1/2 months, we called Parker's House home. Parker's House belongs to the Parker Reese Foundation and Parker is a little girl who did not survive CDH. Her parents started the Foundation to help families like ours. Parker's House is open to CDH families FREE OF CHARGE! We spent 4 1/2 months there and never had to pay a dime. I don't even have the words to describe to you what a relief it was to not have to worry about housing, physically and financially."

The Parker Reese Foundation is currently selling T-shirts as a fundraiser. The t-shirt is $16, you can choose your color, and wear it with pride to help spread awareness about CDH. Best of all...that $16 funds one night at Parker's House.

For more information and to see the t-shirt, see http://theparkerreesefoundation.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/sponsor-a-night/

If you have any questions or problems ordering, please email me at heelsgirl2001@yahoo.com and I will contact Jes.

If you don't want to order a shirt, please just spread the word about the fundraiser. Someone out there might be sitting at home right now thinking "I wish I had a t-shirt that helps out a good cause" and this could be just what they are wishing for! :)