Heya guys!!  Today is finally the day where I ask you guys to donate real life cash to help a 5 year old girl suffering with cancer.  In return you’ll get a chance to win 20,000 gold and a year’s subscription to WoW possibly.  And hopefully some peace of mind as well for doing the right thing. 

Edited In 4/26/09:

It’s now 57 hours after this post was first made and we are already up to $4,227.86 USD!!  I cannot thank you guys enough for being there for Colleen and Eleanor.  Keep this up and we’ll reach that goal of $10,000 way before one month easily.  Thanks again guys.  You all are amazing and awesome!! 

What’s going on?

Not too far back I met a woman in World of Warcraft who simply put, stopped me in my tracks.  I knew instantly that I’d become friends with her, and that she was an incredibly cool person.  Since then we’ve become friends and I’ve gotten a chance to learn about her life.  And a hard life it’s been.  She was suffering from a *major* disease herself (and about to finally get treatment) when she learned that her daughter had developed cancer. 

Her daughter is 5 years old.  Five years old and is dying of cancer.  Needless to say she put her own personal needs to the side, suffering, all the while doing everything possible to take care of her precious little girl.  And she’s never asked for anything.  Nothing.  Can you imagine?

When I found out about all of this my heart broke.  This one hits a little close to home to begin with.  But adding in that it’s happening to not only a friend of mine, but a child at that.  It kills me.  I really want to cry when I think about.

I thought about a lot of things to do to help her and Eleanor out.  I honestly even thought about decking out my toon SJ as much as possible and then auctioning him off for the cause.  I could always level up a new toon.  But as there are some EULA issues with Blizzard concerning that option, I finally decided instead to do a non-profit raffle.  Figured it’d be a good thing.

And believe it or not I had to fight tooth and nail to convince my friend to let me do this for Eleanor.  She fought me.  Hard.  It took me forever to just get her to finalize the banking details to set this up.  But in the end, the fact that she is a mom won out.  She saw my point that this is about Eleanor and no one else.  She didn’t want to beg for help or have people take pity on her.  She wanted to be strong.

Hopefully some of my readers can be strong enough to help support her.  She needs it.

Eleanor Sultan

Eleanor is a 5 year old girl who lives in Seattle, Washington.  I’m not super savy about all of the details on her cancer, but I can give you some resources to check out if you are interested in them.

If you care to learn more about Eleanor, her parents set up a Blog to keep friends and family updated with details:  Click here for Ela’s Blog!!

Also if you wish to see what she looks like, she is actually in a commercial for Seattle Children’s Hospital here at this LINK.  If you watch the 60 second commercial:  Anthem – 60 second TV, and go 20 seconds in you will see a little angel riding a tricycle while her dad (off screen) is running with her to keep her IV stand close enough so she can actually do something so simple as to ride a trike.  When was the last time you saw a child have to have an adult run with them carrying medical equipment just so they could enjoy something so simple? 

Her cancer is bad.  The kind where in the best of care she can only hope for a 40% chance of survival.

The Raffle

This is a 100% non-profit raffle.  I am personally throwing in my own in game gold for the prize and then transfering toons to the winner’s server to give them the gold.  If the subscription is won, the WoW cards will be shipped (or the verification codes) as appropriate and expediently.  No one is making money off this and the EULA is not being broken.

Donations

If you wish to donate money to Ella then we will love you for it.  Any amount you wish to donate is acceptable.  Seriously, anything helps.

• Donating $10.00 US gets you 1 raffle ticket.  Less than the cost of one month’s subscription to WoW.
• Donating $50.00 US gets you 6 raffle tickets.
• Donating $100.00 US gets you 14 raffle tickets.

Prizes

• If we reach $1,000.00 then the raffle wil be for 10,000g on a US server.
• If we reach $5,000.00 then the raffle wil be for 20,000g on a US server.
• If we reach $10,000.00 then the raffle wil be for 20,000g on a US server *AND* 1 year paid subscription to WoW.

Over 10,000 different people are visiting this site every single day.  If just 1 in 10 of those people decided to donate at least $10 then Eleanor would have $10,000 for her needs.  Think about it.

Additional Prizes

I have an offer from a friend of Ella’s mom to put in some additional gold.  So in addition to the “Grand Prize Winner”, we will also have one to three additional prizes given out as well.  This will directly hinge on how much is donated.  The more donated to Ella, the more that is getting thrown into the pot.  Possibly as much as an extra 10,000g or more.

Prize Limitations

I can only get this gold on a US server.  I cannot get anything to our Euro players.  So the gold is limited in that fashion.  The WoW subscription of course is in no way limited.

Donation Issues

If for some reason the 2 donation links cause you any kind of an error please visit PayPal and donate to the following e-mail address acount there:  ellabellalove@live.com

Shout Outs, Advertising, and Blogs!!

Please, please, please, please help me out here.  If you know anyone who might even be willing to consider donating then tell them about this.  If you know someone who will tell other people.  Tell them about this.  If you know someone with a blog who will link this.  Tell them about this.

Any sites that link this up I will happily link back and tell everyone how wonderfully awesome you are.  Eleanor deserves the best and I will happily sell some “air time” on my site to help her out in the limited fashion available to myself.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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