Ok guess what!

WE MET OUR GOAL!!!!!!! Our class date is Sept 13-23! Yay!

I want to thank everyone for their help, support and donations!!

Please keep watching the blog for a special thank you video from Lily later this week!

So

our newest updated total is 10845.09!! We are only $2154.91 from our goal! Yay!

Sorry so long

Since I last updated. I have been sick with some kind nasty cold or flu or something. But I am feeling a bit better so I thought I would update.

Concert With Lily was wonderful. New Wave Nation was wonderful as they always are. Legends was great and the food was awesome! We had a bigger turn out than I was expecting due to the weather. We raised about $1, 700 that night!


Our latest update from 4 paws is that out total is $8781.90!  So we are getting there!!

I want to thank Legends, New Wave Nation, Zeppe's Pizza and all the awesome people that attended!

Will be posting the sponsor list sometime next week.

Ok so

I know I promised a final tally from the benefit and I do have it. But I forgot the paper I wrote it down on at my sister-in-laws. However I do remember this.......it was right around (drum roll please) $6, 800!!!!!!

I'll tell ya we were floored by the turn out. We expected around 100 people, but I think there was probably double that and were only hoping to take in about $5,000.


I want to once again thank everyone that made this benefit possible! Thank you to all the wonderful sponsors that provided the hall, the food and drink, then entertainment, the baskets and thank you to all the lovely people that came! I am truly sorry I didn't have more time to talk to you all, but it was busy, busy, busy!!! If you come to the Legends event on Dec 12th, I should be able to actually get some social time in with that one!

Sponsors Con't

Little Caesars
Italos
Eurogyro
DeMario's Pizza
CiCi's Pizza
John Anderson Flowers
All Seasoning Tanning
Healing Waters
Carrabba's
Fridays
Ladies Super Fitness
Chik-Fila
Outback
Pen  Station
Laser Quest
Don Pablo's
Movie's 10
Davies Candies
Enchanted Florist
Hair Shoppe
Ahh Nuts....
Fazoli's
Avenue Antiques
Greater Columbus Athletic Association

Luau For Lily

The Luau was a HUGE success......final money tally will be posted tomorrow evening. Keep your eyes on the blog for that update.
Also I would like to thank the following sponsors! Our Luau could not have been possible without them!
Stephanie Secrest    Kelly Harlow             Tabitha Girls Club           
Melanie Felix        Stephanie Tomczak
Vicky Liolios        Tim Beitler
Donna Wigfield        Gwen Gerber
Donna Jewel        Mark Pindel
Ed Toth            Jim Tresel
Steve Toth        Megan Himes
Russ Toth        Josh Himes
Nick Toth        Susan Walters
Matt Humphries    Missy Rossow
Leslie Secrest        Rene Contos
Jacki Bungo         Jeff Falkner
Judy Robin        Sherry Macaffe
Susan & Mike Finsel    Shawn & Michele McCartney
Phyllis Richards        Jen & Brian Vilono
Betty Harris        Brad & Kelly Maytas
Marlene Chaney    Paula Masroianni
Brenda Jesse        RJ Van Allmon
Linda Connor        Diva Gymnatics
Marie Ballinger        Toth Buick GMC
Angela Edwards        Play It Again Sports
Lisa Rossow        North Canton Church of Christ
Sara Butler        Motts Bulk Foods
Susan & Roger Walters    Young Mothers Group
Matt Himes        East Canton Church of God
Jan Edwards        Buehlers
Carol Perdragovich    His Majesty's Bed & Breakfast
Nadya SeraFinov    Ace Motors
Kris Sims         Harley Davidson
Barbara Moran        National First Ladies Library
Greg St. Claire        Knights Inn
Bob St. Claire        Levin's Furniture
Georgene Gearheart    Maleys
Jim Porter        Camping World
Park Centre Lanes    Hayes Auto
Hog Heaven        North Canton Dry Cleaners
Akron Electric Tattoos    Millers Tavern
Winking Lizard        Stab Lab
Haramis Estate        Coke
Maggiores        All Season Tanning
Cuttin Up The Town    Envy Salon
Krauses Pizza        Marios Drive Thru
Leo's            Portage Beverage
The Polish Club        Midas
Autozone        Cosmo Proff

Upcoming Event Fliers-Legends and New Wave Nation

Upcomg event fliers---Luau

Fund Raiser

Here's a link to the Luau

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=157936704243941

Upcoming Fund Raiser

Here is one of the upcoming Fund raisers

Luau For Lily
Tuesday, November 30th from 6:00-9:00pm
Chateau Michele
2231 44th St.
Canton, Ohio
44709
Food, beverages and entertainment provided as well as silent and Chinese auctions.
All proceeds will go to 4 Paws For Ability in honor of Lillian Secrest
Tickets presale are ages 13 and up are $10, ages 6-12 are $5, and ages 5 and under are free. At the door the cost is ages 13 and up $12, ages 6-12   $7 and children 5 and under and free. To but tickets in the Akron area call (330) 861-6991. To buy tickets in the Canton are call (330) 327-2300

Christmas ornaments

So this weekend Lily and I will be making Christmas ornaments and then Lily will be painting them all by herself. We will have the ornaments up for sale on this blog, on my facebook page and you can also purchase them at the fund raisers. Will post some pictures as soon as we get them done.

New updated total!

As of Nov 1, Lily's total is $1,168.09

Thank you everyone for donating and please keep spreading the word!

Lily playing in the leaves

Cause for seizures

Well  we finally got our answer on why Lily has been having seizures and now know that she will not out grown them.  Please visit her other blog at http://lilyfight.blogspot.com/ to read about that.

Fund Raising Update

As of Oct 15th Lily's total is $43.09.......There will be another update this coming weekend, so keep your eyes open for that!

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Just a little fund raising update

Both Cliffside Key Club and Legends Sports Pub and Grille have agreed to do fund raisers! Yay!  I will have more details about this as we iron things out.


Also I am waiting for the updated fund raising total....when I get it I will post.

Thanks for reading and please keep spreading the word!

Welcome and blog purpose

I would like to take this time to thank you for coming to 4 Paws for Lily's blog.

Lillian is a beautiful, intelligent, active and happy 3 yr old living in Green, Ohio. In December of 2009 Lily had her first seizure. This seizure was ruled a Status Epiliptic (that is a seizure that does not stop without medical intervention). Since then Lily has had 4 more seizures. Three have been Status (one lasting 3 and 1/2 hours) and one was not but still lasted 10 minutes.

Lily's seizures are partial  complex seizures. They are not what most people typically think of when they think of seizures. They are very quite, Lily becomes like a rag doll and hyper ventilates. Make no mistake though her seizures are extremely dangerous because almost all have been Status seizures. Lily's seizures have only happened at night when she is asleep and the family should be asleep. But trust me....mama and daddy don't sleep much these days!

A prolonged seizure can cause brain damage and possibly death. We are VERY lucky that Lily suffered no repercussion from the last seizure that lasted 3 and 1/2 hours. I am sure you can imagine that our lives have been turned upside down by her epilepsy.

In April after one of her seizures I had an ER doctor suggest to me that we get Lily a seizure assistance/alert dog. I had never heard of anything other than seeing eye dogs at that point in time. After A LOT of researching we realized that this is something that our family could really, really benefit from!  And then came the task of finding the right service dog organization. After much searching we found 4 Paws for Ability.

4 Paws for Ability is a service dog organization based in Xenia, Ohio. Most service dog organizations will place you on a waiting list while they raise the funds. The wait can be anywhere from 2-5 years. 4 Paws for Ability allows parents to volunteer to raise the funds themselves. This means no waiting list! Training a service dog cost about $22,000.  Our family needs to raise $13,000 to meet the fund raising requirement required for placement of a dog.  By raising the money ourselves, the wait time for a dog is greatly reduced.

A seizure assistance/alert dog can help us when Lily is having a seizure. The dog can also alert us that a seizure is coming there fore we can get Lily the medical attention she needs to get the seizure stopped that much sooner. Also a service dog can wake us up in the middle of the night if she were to have a seizure when we are all asleep. I am sure you can see the enormous advantages this type of dog would have not just for Lily but for our family unit as a whole.

Any donation will help and none is too small!
Please consider making a tax deductible donation to:
4 Paws For Ability, Inc at 253 Dayton Ave. Xenia, OH 45385.
Be sure to include"Lillian Secrest" on the memo portion of your check so that Lillian will receive proper credit.

To donate online please visit http://www.4pawsforability.org/donation.html

Please make sure you indicate that the donation is "In honor of Lillian Secrest"

If you are unable to donate at this time, but would like to donate products or services for our upcoming silent auction, please contact me (Hollie) at lilysfight@gmail.com

Or if you would like to help out with the fund raising (and I could REALLY use some extra hands!) please join the Yahoo group listed to the right or contact me at lilysfight@gmail.com

Please keep your eye on this blog for updates on the fund raising and upcoming events.

If you would like more info on Lily, please visit her blog Lily's Fight at http://lilysfight.blogspot.com

Thank you and God Bless!