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teaI have an extended 'family' from a camp I grew up attending - both with my family in the lodges and campgrounds and as a camper in their wilderness camps. I worked there, spending three summers there during high school, and it's one of those magical places where people connect with so much love and generosity on a daily basis. I haven't been back in a while, as my life has taken me elsewhere, but I found out today that one of the members of that family has a very serious medical condition - she needs a lung transplant because she has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She's 20 years old.
Hélène is one of the four Campbell 'kids', and she is exactly as wonderful a person as she is in this video. Sunny, loving, funny - the kind of person who's presence makes everything brighter! I suppose that's what people always say in posts like these, but you don't have to take my word for it - you can see for yourself in the video.
At any rate, Hélène, like me, is Canadian, so there are presently (as everything is happening in hospitals) no health care bills. But because she needs to move to Toronto to get access to their lung transplant efforts and can no longer work, and because her mother will be taking time off work to go with her, this will not be an inexpensive process. If you have anything from a good thoughts or prayers, or a few bucks and feel so moved, there's more information and paypal links on their website, A Lung Story.
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A Lung Story from Elisabeth Levesque-Mumford on Vimeo.
Hélène is one of the four Campbell 'kids', and she is exactly as wonderful a person as she is in this video. Sunny, loving, funny - the kind of person who's presence makes everything brighter! I suppose that's what people always say in posts like these, but you don't have to take my word for it - you can see for yourself in the video.
At any rate, Hélène, like me, is Canadian, so there are presently (as everything is happening in hospitals) no health care bills. But because she needs to move to Toronto to get access to their lung transplant efforts and can no longer work, and because her mother will be taking time off work to go with her, this will not be an inexpensive process. If you have anything from a good thoughts or prayers, or a few bucks and feel so moved, there's more information and paypal links on their website, A Lung Story.
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