Bid on an original page from A Distant Soil to help Deb Mensinger pay for a liver transplant! Important page of the first meeting of Rieken and Liana!
AUCTION ENDS SUNDAY!
Many other outstanding works available! SIGNED BOOKS< HANDMADE JOURNALS, ORIGINAL ART, TOM CANTY, CHARLES VESS, KELLY LINK, MORE!
DETAILS ABOUT THE AUCTION PROCESS HERE.
What is this?
debsliverlovers is a fandom auction to benefit Deb Mensinger and her wife, Laurie J. Marks (author of the Elemental Logic series, the Children of the Triad series, The Watcher’s Mask, and Dancing Jack, and guest of honor at WisCon 31). Bidding begins on Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 12:01 am Eastern Daylight Savings Time, and closes on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 11:59 pm Eastern DST. Bidding is currently OPEN!
What’s the cause?
This auction is to raise money for the medical and incidental expenses related to Deb Mensinger’s liver transplant. Deb and Laurie will have a number of expenses that are not covered by insurance, including the costs related to getting the potential live donor to Massachusetts for testing and, if all goes well, the surgery.
Deb has been disabled for several years by a genetic form of porphyria. Over time, porphyria destroys the liver, and Deb has now reached a point where she requires a liver transplant to survive.
We all know how difficult it is to get an organ transplant, and how long the lists are. However, there is a spot of hope in this: Deb’s brother is willing to be a live donor. If he passes all the tests, genetic and otherwise, the hope is that the two of them would go into surgery simultaneously, and surgeons would remove a lobe of his liver and transplant it to Deb. In 6-8 weeks, both livers would regenerate into full, functioning livers, and Deb will never have porphyria again.
There are a lot of obstacles to this, not least of which being her brother’s limited means and lack of insurance and living on the opposite coast. In the best of all possible worlds, we’re hoping that a fandom auction will help raise money to bring her brother and his spouse to the East Coast a first time, for testing, and a second time, for the surgery. If we’re very fortunate, the auction can help with test costs, the cost of putting up his spouse at a local hotel while he’s recovering from surgery, and such related items that transplant-related grants and insurance won’t pay for.
This auction is to raise money for as much of the combined medical and related expenses as we can.
