Fwd: A reminder from Cat Loughlin

[Cat Loughlin]

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From: GoFundMe <inv...@gofundme.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM
Subject: A reminder from Cat Loughlin
To: xeom...@gmail.com

Not Interested? Hi again, Just a friendly reminder that Cat is raising money for: "Family Disney Dream Memorial Trip" Will you show your support? Yes! Take me to this page >> Cat says... Hi my name is Chris and I’m hoping you will help to make a great family’s Dream memorial trip come true. My Best friend promised her mother we would make one last trip to Disney on her deathbed. Below is our story I hope you take a minute to read I thank you for your time and attention.                 I’m writing to you today about my best friend De and her family. Neither of us have had a lot of money growing up. But one of the things her family always did when times were tough was to scrap together just enough money to go to Disney.                 In 2006 I moved to Seattle and De moved with me. Shortly after her parents moved to the state to be close to her. Her mother was struggling with Alzheimer’s and had begun the inevitable decline and her father wanted her to be able to spend as much time with her daughter as she could. As the economy tanked both myself and De lost or jobs, I fell into a bad depression. De rallied and went back to school to get first her associates and is now graduating with Bachelors! My mother passed away and I was devastated. My depression turned to my becoming suicidal. I became disabled and it has been a long crawl back to normal for me.                 De has been my rock that entire time taking care of a disabled suicidal best friend/roommate. Working and putting herself through Collage in just three short years managing to earn her Bachelors in Computer Science. Unfortunately when she graduates her mother will not be there to see her daughter accomplish her dream.                 She passed away just as De was starting school. Another burden my friend has carried. Her father and she made the painful choice that it was time to put her into an Alzheimer’s clinic when her Seventy year old father could no longer lift her to help her in and out of bed. Paul is a very religious man who lives a debt free life on a modest social security income and spends his time working with his Church’s outreach and volunteering at a Good will and going on Missions for his church.                 It was devastating to him to make the decision that he needed help taking care of De's mom Doris when the in home nurse was no longer an option. That weekend while we were looking at short term homes still hoping we could find somewhere she could recover enough that he could take her home again. She fell ill her systems where failing. Over the next eight hours things went from bad to worse. De's mom Doris was a Disney Kid... She has always loved Disney it had been her hope to go to Disney again once shed recovered her health enough for the trip; it was one of the things that made her smile when she was having a lucid day. In the hospital as her vitals started to fade she gathered De to her bedside and told her it was Time to go to Disney one last time... She died within the hour.                 Greif stricken we all made a pact to come together after De graduated and take Her Dad and her to Disney for Christmas and have a Memorial reunion Christmas at Disney. All the friends and family who loved her joining together to celebrate for two weeks. However times have been hard and school is expensive and now that it is coming down to the wire I am looking at how little we have been able to save and the cost of getting three people across the country to Disney and coordinating our costs without losing a roof over our heads has become staggering several people have had to cancel due to financial crisis’s. Some are already set to go and meet us there.                 De and her Dad have given and given to so many people and never asked for anything. The last few years have been filled with so many hardships and challenges and yet they have both overcome these challenges Please help me to show them Dreams can come because I just can’t afford to do it on my own. I promise we will pay any and all goodwill forward!   Thank you so much for your time, God Bless Chris Continue Reading >> What is GoFundMe? GoFundMe is a personal fundraising website that has helped thousands of people raise millions of dollars for the things that matter to them most. Sent from GoFundMe's Headquarters in California PO BOX 711798 San Diego, CA 92171 Don't want emails from GoFundMe? We're sorry. You can unsubscribe here.