PlatKat.com: Poignant

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Poignant

A member of Fark, a newsgroup I frequent (heavily frequent), is currently suffering a tragedy. His wife is brain dead with no chance for recovery and she is carrying their unborn child.

There IS hope for the baby, so her family is taking donations to offset the $1500/day ICU costs as we count down the days until she can give birth. I'm sure the husband isn't working at a time like this, so I imagine they have many other financial problems as well.

A lot of people on Fark made donations to the Susan Torres Fund. The thread for this posting made me feel all squishy inside, so I donated too. Most people donated around $20, (every little bit helps!) and I bet the power of Fark will pay for at least a day.

It was nice to see a bunch of people who normally bicker about media, politics, and grammatical errors come together and do something nice. :-)

As of July 21, mother and baby are still doing well. I was happy to read this article and learn that the family has received over $400,000 in donations. Yay!

posted by platkat @ 2:07 PM