I am going to quote the page to view here if you are not intersted in going to ebay first.
Warning some of the pictures are pretty damn upsetting.
I have donated all my paypal money to this family already.
Please just give it a read and do what you can to help.
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...rid=anteros911
WHY WE ARE SELLING OUR CARD COLLECTION
Where to begin?..Well, first off, just so you know up front. This auction is for the well being of Chelsea who is almost 19 months old. We are selling our Card Collection (Book value $3400.00 U.S.) to pay for the medication and treatment Chelsea requires.
PLEASE BE ADVISED
THIS AUCTION SHOWS PICTURES OF A CHILD THAT SOME MIGHT FIND A LITTLE UNSETTLING AND HARD TO LOOK AT, PLEASE USE DISCRETION
A LITTLE ABOUT US
We are a young family, blessed with a 3-½ year old son Tyler, and Chelsea. My wife does not work, she is a stay at home mom, providing all the care for our son and daughter. I work two jobs. My main full time job is in an arena, I work 4 days (6am to 4pm), then 4 nights (3 pm to 1am), then 6 days off. On my days off, I work part time for a Store that sells floor coverings and blinds. I install the blinds for their customers.
Our son is a perfectly healthy 3 ½ year old, loves the typical things that all little boys love to do. Our daughter (the reason behind me pouring my heart out for anyone interested in reading this) is a beautiful 16 month old.
I make $16.22 an hour at the Arena, 40 hours a week. That translates into a yearly income of $33737.60 Canadian. For our American friends south of the border, it works out to $13.46 an hour, or $27995.34 a year, depending on the exchange rate. Not a big amount, especially when you consider our rent is $800.00 a month, add in utilities, groceries, etc, and it does not leave a lot left over.
ABOUT OUR DAUGHTER AND HER SITUATION
When our daughter was born, she was what we thought perfectly healthy. We were blessed with her indeed! But, when she was 6 weeks old, she started developing a rash in her diaper area, armpits, and behind her knees. We assumed it was a diaper rash and a heat rash. We picked up some lotion and put it on, but it did not work, instead it got worse as the days went on. We tried every lotion we could find on the market, but nothing worked (At one point, we had over 70 different lotions, we still have many left that remain unused until we get to them. Lotions with aloe, without perfumes or scents, medicated, unmedicated, nothing worked at all. It just continued to get worse.
By the time she was 12 weeks old, she had gotten to the point that we had to put socks over her hands secured to her with hair bands and elastic bands, just to keep her from scratching. She would scratch to the point that she would bleed, and then start to swell up so bad that she could barely open her eyes. We had at that point seen numerous doctors, all telling us different things. It seemed everyone had his or her own opinions on what it was, one doctor even telling us it was just a mild heat rash!! Tell me if this sounds like a heat rash to you. Your 3-month-old daughter sleeps 2 hours a night. (There were and still is times when we get 2-3 hours of sleep every night for 2-3 weeks when she has a bad outbreak)When she is not sleeping, she is crying because her skin is so raw that it is bleeding. When you pick her up, she screams in pain because the pressure on her skin hurts so much. The only time she will sleep is when you are holding her, and even then, she whimpers because she cannot scratch. Imagine going for a car ride, and she is quiet for about 3 minutes, you assume she is sleeping. You turn around to check on her and find her completely covered in her own blood. She managed to get a hand free, and scratched her face and head raw, completely zoned out because it felt so good to scratch. That would make your heart stop, I know it sure did for us. It has happened to us on more than one occasion. Sound like a heat rash? Didn?t think so.