Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

We're still getting donations in it sounds like so we don't have a 'grand total' yet. Karlee is thinking though that it'll be in the $3500-$4000 range, which is great! Also the last band, the Mike Watson band, apparently took off one of their drum heads and signed it for Izzy, as did some, if not all of one of the other bands, the Rhythm Raiders. Its pretty cool and will go well with all of the other music stuff I have from my days in radio. We'll be hanging it up in his room though, but it's still pretty cool. I haven't had a chance to download the photos yet as work has been very busy this week for me and I'm starting my flex time / part time job today too. We'll have them up this weekend for sure though.

Well all in all Rachel and I are beat, but we had a great time at the benefit concert yesterday. Isaiah lasted out there way longer than we even expected and was able to stay from about 3-8pm. If you're just first coming here after getting the blog card at the concert you can scroll back and get more of the story about Isaiah. There are a bunch of picture links on the left hand bar and we'll have some from the concert up soon. Welcome! There are just so many people to thank for yesterday I barely know where to start. First and foremost, I want to thank Karlee Brown for all her help getting this organized and put together. I've barely known her for more than a year and only from work, but its great that people like her exist and want to help us. She's the one that brought everyone together and really made the day possible. No matter what anyone else thinks, this day was a complete success to us. It doesn't matter how much money we raised on that one day, we...

I just thought I would let you all know our co-worker has set up an account for the Benefit concert donations and if anyone not here in Atlanta wanted to donate you can send a check made out to "Bands for Baby" to REMOVED. This account will probably only be open until about November 1st or so and is only in relation to the concert, but all of the money will get to us to help cover his health care costs. Rachel and I are getting deeper into creating an actual fund for him that would be a tax deductible charity. We thought originally we could make him a 501(c)(3) non-profit, but there's a whole load of hoops to go through and we've had to regroup somewhat. UPDATE 01/17/09: While Bands for baby's account is closed you can donate to us through the info in this post .

Sorry for the lack of posts this last week. I've been swamped at work, we had an ER scare with Isaiah on Thursday due to a little cold and fever, and my Mom was in town this last weekend, but all is well right now. He's on a nebulizer for a while now to help his lungs, but he's really doing quite well. He got a bunch of vaccinations today and while he didn't like getting stuck according to Rachel, he's had no adverse reactions as of yet. In other news a couple of my co-workers have set up a benefit concert for Isaiah to help us offset some of the health care costs we have. It's going to be October 4th here in Georgia. Mountain Park, GA to be exact. Click the photo of the flyer, for a larger image. We hope, if you are around here that you can make it!