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Friday, March 12, 2010

Mailing address...

Address for postcards:

I am deleting the hospital address today (April, 6th) since we are hoping to be out of here in the next few days. Satori is LOVING the postcards and asked that I put our address here for anyone who still wants to send one.

Satori Lewis
1 Harbor Road
Dayton, NV
89403 USA


At the risk of repeating myself (which I do often)

We have good insurance, a great surgeon and an excellent hospital!!


**Satori is in need of nothing but exciting postcards**

To see pictures of Tori with her cards or read updates about her condition click here.

Hello!

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Melissa Lewis, Haut Totes on Etsy, as well as Hauttotes on twitter.

My 10 year old daughter Satori has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (type II) She uses a power wheelchair, can't walk, crawl, etc. Despite that she's a rock star!! She has a super sense of humor, gets straight A's even though she misses an average of 40 days of school a year! She's a great sister & daughter & a fantastic person all around.

Because she is so physically weak her body doesn't hold its self up well and she has developed severe scoliosis. The curve of her spine it is now starting to crush her lung, so on March 31 she will have full spinal fusion. They will open her back from the neck all the way down, insert 2 titanium rods, one on either side of her spine, wire the whole thing up and place donor bone in between all the vertebrae. Eventually it will all grow together "fusing" her spine into one long bone.

We are traveling to California to have this done, with an estimated stay in the hospital of 7-10 days. I am hoping to get people to send her postcards from all over. I think that the messages (and pictures) will be fun for her. I also plan to take an atlas and have her mark off states and countries (sneaking in a little geography).

24 comments:

  1. I'm going to Vegas and have some leftover postcards. I'll try to mail one from there for your daughter.

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  2. I will happily send her a card from England. :)

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  3. I'll mail a postcard too! Suggestion: Save the cards and have them spiral bound for a flip book for her.

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  4. There will be a couple coming from Scotland: one from the city where I live, and one from the city where I work. I'll be sure to include some local history, so you can sneak in a history lesson AND a Geography lesson!

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  5. ATX representing. I am gonna pick up a few really cool ones this week. Might even make her one special with some of my photography. xoxoxox

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  6. I'm sorry if its obvious to everyone but me, but what is the mailing address?
    @wendywhy

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  7. Idea: cover a shoebox with some of the cards and doublesided tape or glue stick and then she has a storage spot to store all of them. Something you can do at the hospital together. Prayers are with your family.

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  8. I'd be happy to send one from Massachusetts! I saw this RTed on my Twitter feed, and I was wondering if it's ok with you if I post this link elsewhere? I think the folks over at Swap-Bot.com would be happy to send Satori some postcards. :) Let me know at BGOUTAL AT GMAIL DOT COM

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  9. I would like to donate my service to help those that would like to send cards to Satori. If you go to www.sendoutcards.com/cardcatalog you will see a link to send a free card. This will give you the ability to send either a postcard or greeting card to Satori for Free!

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  10. I will send a special card from Germany.

    Igor

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  11. I posted a little something on my blog today. Hope it will bring more people to send Satori post cards from all over the world:)

    You, Satori and your family are so inspiring! Wishing you all the best:) You will be in my prayers.

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  12. Oops! here is the link to my blog so you can read the story: http://verredesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/be-part-of-most-amazing-story-being.html

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  13. she has a letter from Australia on its way :)

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  14. Hey, shouldn't that be a "&" and not a 7 in the address?

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  15. I'm delighted to send a card from Atlanta. You are truly an inspiration, and I will post this on my blog on Monday, March 22nd. When I have the link, I'll be back to post it.

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  16. Look for a card from Tucson, best wishes.

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  17. Going to make some with my fun girly graphics on them for her.

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  19. Hello Satori and Melissa :)
    I came here via a thread on the Postcrossing forum and I'll be more than happy to send a card!
    A big hug from Italy :)

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  20. What a wonderful idea...we'll all be thinking of you...Postcards will be on their way!! Can't wait to hear about how many are collected!

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  21. I will gladly send her a homemade poetry postcard! :)

    Blessings to her, you and your family!

    Kathy
    (alotus_poetry on Twitter)

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  22. What a blessing for Satori! All these people, most if I read correctly not even knowing her ... sending her cards from ALL over the world. Thank YOU Lord for the surgery, the victories, and the continued healing You have in store for little Satori. AMEN

    In Jesus' Love,
    LouAnn (Oxnard, CA)

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  23. My daughters and I were watching the news today and my youngest daughter Madilyn (4) asked why she was in the hospital, so i told her so she said can i draw her a picture to make her better and i said sure, i am sure she would like that...we wish you the best and we hope you make it home soon......

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  24. Wow I just read the whole site about your daughter... Wow she has gone through so much and is such an inspiration! WoW... You and you family! Prayers to all of ya'll and I will continue to follow- here, etsy, twitter... :o)
    ~Valerie

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