show me the money

One thing that I will be doing in the next few weeks is raising money for travel, lodging and lost wages for the surgery. I plan on doing some fund-raisers in the next few weeks, although I really need to get out and actually do something about it. I'm going to write letters to friends and family, hold a bake sale/pancake brunch at my house, and possibly solicit a restaurant to donate a portion of the daily sales.

Currently my cousin and my dad are working on getting flights arranged for myself, my boyfriend, my parents and (hopefully) my brothers. I will be flying from Atlanta to Phoenix, and then to either Sioux City or Omaha (whatever's cheapest), and then back to Atlanta. (I'm not even going to try to get a flight out of Augusta ... way to expensive.) I will have to be on the same flight as my parents when I leave Phoenix because they are my caretakers and I probably will be in great need of assistance; but Annie said it took a while before travel agents could actually get that through their skulls (they had originally wanted to put me on a different flight than my folks). I'm going to call my cousin tomorrow and see what the status of the flights are.

If that falls through, we're going to look into Angel Flights, which is a group of retired pilots who help fly people to and from far-away hospitals for medical procedures. Most of it (or perhaps entirely) is free.