Paying it forward a bit..
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Drozd...your so sweet!!!!
Good Luck Everybody!!!!
Shhh with that..you'll ruin my reputation
Shhh with that..you'll ruin my reputation
Oh yeah, I forgot you're a bad ...
LOL, too late
I would like to add my story if it's not too late.
I would like to gift this to my father in law if my story is chosen.
At the end of January his mother, my husband's grandma, went to the hospital and once there, she was suffering from smoking-related illnesses. After several surgeries and a painful time with a tracheotomy and a respirator, she passed away March 13. Seeing her suffering and dying he decided he has to quit smoking. Being a longtime smoker he knows this won't be easy.
I have been using my e-cig since a week after gma went into the hospital and my father in law has seen my success. Seeing her made me realize I didn't want to die like she was. My father in law has tried my cig and wants to get one, knowing this may be his only chance to quit for good before it's too late for him. He is retired and my mother in law works part time in a retail store, and my sister in law has huge medical bills caused from a rare disease she is suffering from. What that means is he just doesn't have the cash flow to get started right now.
I wish I had something to give him to get him started but I only own my 510 and have no extras. And I work 2 jobs as it is to make ends meet at my house, so I can't afford to get him started, too.
I would like to gift this to my father in law if my story is chosen.
At the end of January his mother, my husband's grandma, went to the hospital and once there, she was suffering from smoking-related illnesses. After several surgeries and a painful time with a tracheotomy and a respirator, she passed away March 13. Seeing her suffering and dying he decided he has to quit smoking. Being a longtime smoker he knows this won't be easy.
I have been using my e-cig since a week after gma went into the hospital and my father in law has seen my success. Seeing her made me realize I didn't want to die like she was. My father in law has tried my cig and wants to get one, knowing this may be his only chance to quit for good before it's too late for him. He is retired and my mother in law works part time in a retail store, and my sister in law has huge medical bills caused from a rare disease she is suffering from. What that means is he just doesn't have the cash flow to get started right now.
I wish I had something to give him to get him started but I only own my 510 and have no extras. And I work 2 jobs as it is to make ends meet at my house, so I can't afford to get him started, too.
This is one that caught my attention also. I think this is a great idea and you are to be commended for your efforts along with others on this forum. This makes me wonder about an idea. How feasible or would it be possible to set up some sort of "PV bank"? Along with the same idea of "food banks" that are all across the country. Just have everyone with extra stuff, send to a common location or user and then when the hard luck stories come along or if someone has a need the "bank" could supply the need. Possibly a committee might need to be formed to review cases and determine priority of need. Just a thought. Thanks for this great thread!
Just wanted to add that you guys really are doing something so amazing and it really is a bigger deal than you realize. Sometimes it takes just one kind act to make a difference. Look how many people have stepped forward wanting to help out just because of your simple idea. I wish more people would "pay it forward" alot less people would have to go without and a lot more people would know what an amazing feeling it is to help someone less fortunate than yourself. With that being said YOU GUYS ROCK!
Hey GalenaNina,
I don't know if your pms are turned off or if your post count is too low to be able to send you a pm..
but I was trying to contact you...since you're using a 510..I've got an extra 510 PT and another user has a 510 and some juice..but we can't contact you..
I am still trying to figure this whole thing out!! I'm sorry for the hassle geez!! I was a stalker here for quite some time but never posted!!! I have no idea why because anyone who knows me says I am a person who ALWAYS has something to say whether I'm right or wrong!! lol..... I am always right though... of course... Do I need to post at the noob area first?? TY TY TY TY... once again you guys rock!
Hey Drozd, I didn't run away or anything just making my way through the forum slowly trying to build up my 15 posts!! I just noticed you are from OHIO wow!! I'm curious what part you are from?? I'm not to far from columbus myself. I just took the time to read the stories posted here and want to say that my heart goes out to anyone who has to deal with heartache and tragedy. I wish I was in a place to help someone myself I really do. Its given me tears in my eyes to think of so many kind and giving people in this forum. OH! and your avatar is HILARIOUS!
First of all:
THANKS A MILLION TO ALL OF YOU GIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is MOVING to say the least. Amazing is more like it!!!
For those of us following this thread: lets just all try to keep it going. People should tell their stories and mention what they need. Eventually people will hopefully be able to help them by finding them HERE. If the thread gets lost...someone create a new one. I am a social worker and counselor...so maybe its just the tree huger in me but I hope it keeps on going. and I'm not a fan of that movie pay it forward but this is a "pay it forward" worth paying attention to.
For example: I'm sure after another month or two my husband and I will decide there are certain things we have ordered that we really JUST AREN"T GONNA USE. We are still new so still feeling like need to give everything we have a true try. We also have some money crunches right now. UGGGG.
I'm looking forward to paying it forward myself FOR SURE!!! I already have a stack of "maybes"....of course "my girl" that I nominated will be getting some stuff from me first to get her FULLY UP AND RUNNING>>>>THANKS SO MUCH TO YOU TWO WHO SENT STUFF TO GET HER STARTED...and I did get a message from DROZD A THIRD GIVER saying that she was splitting the kit up and that "my girl" was getting "some of the pieces"....so I don't mean to get in you business DRODS by sharing it here but I GOTTA THANK YOU PUBLIC REALLY; AS YOU DESERVE IT!!!!! I think splitting it up is a GREAT IDEA and we are BOTH VERY THANKFUL FOR YOUR GENEROUS GIFT!!! Her Kids are also VERY THANKFUL!!! They are very excited!!! Between what all of you have done, she was able to quit yesterday THANKS TO: DMS2009 on "old minis" with some of my juice (she loves the green tea...haha)...and soon she should be up and running with some new supplies from BORN: THANK YOU .... and DROZD!!!! and THANK YOU Nilius for the juice you are donating!!!!!!!! GOOOOO PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!
I will be looking here on this thread for someone who wants the "old minis" once "my girl" gets the new set up. So let me know if you want them it. She may not need it after Mid April MAYBE. Thanks again: DMS2009 for those!!! I gonna keep them going!!! They are great for her to start on (and she got them yesterday morning). She was vaping away every time I saw her and she was doing this really funny/cute/crazy dance that was JUST CRACKING ME UP!!!...and even though we work in a school...she's so slick and psyched that she was doing the dance with only me seeing in a crowded building. She "had her eyes out" and would suddenly stop dancing before anyone else saw her "JAMMING OUT ExCITED"!!! Like a freeze frame. I've never seen her so happy!!!. Quite an actress. SHES PSYCHED!!!
"my girl is set with the donations now!!!!....(if DROZD sends what I think she may be sending.) THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING MY GOOD FRIEND SAVE HER LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!! She will be on the forum soon (Shes a little shy and new to "forums" in general as am I). She or I will let you know HERE what her user name is.
YOU ROCK!!!! HAPPY KARMA ALL AROUND!!!!!!!!!
ENJOY IN HER SUCCESS AND ALL OF THE SHARING!!!! THIS IS SUCH A HAPPY STORY!!!!!
THANKS A MILLION!!!!
THANKS A MILLION TO ALL OF YOU GIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is MOVING to say the least. Amazing is more like it!!!
For those of us following this thread: lets just all try to keep it going. People should tell their stories and mention what they need. Eventually people will hopefully be able to help them by finding them HERE. If the thread gets lost...someone create a new one. I am a social worker and counselor...so maybe its just the tree huger in me but I hope it keeps on going. and I'm not a fan of that movie pay it forward but this is a "pay it forward" worth paying attention to.
For example: I'm sure after another month or two my husband and I will decide there are certain things we have ordered that we really JUST AREN"T GONNA USE. We are still new so still feeling like need to give everything we have a true try. We also have some money crunches right now. UGGGG.
I'm looking forward to paying it forward myself FOR SURE!!! I already have a stack of "maybes"....of course "my girl" that I nominated will be getting some stuff from me first to get her FULLY UP AND RUNNING>>>>THANKS SO MUCH TO YOU TWO WHO SENT STUFF TO GET HER STARTED...and I did get a message from DROZD A THIRD GIVER saying that she was splitting the kit up and that "my girl" was getting "some of the pieces"....so I don't mean to get in you business DRODS by sharing it here but I GOTTA THANK YOU PUBLIC REALLY; AS YOU DESERVE IT!!!!! I think splitting it up is a GREAT IDEA and we are BOTH VERY THANKFUL FOR YOUR GENEROUS GIFT!!! Her Kids are also VERY THANKFUL!!!
They are very excited!!! Between what all of you have done, she was able to quit yesterday THANKS TO: DMS2009 on "old minis" with some of my juice (she loves the green tea...haha)...and soon she should be up and running with some new supplies from BORN: THANK YOU .... and DROZD!!!! and THANK YOU Nilius for the juice you are donating!!!!!!!! GOOOOO PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!I will be looking here on this thread for someone who wants the "old minis" once "my girl" gets the new set up. So let me know if you want them it. She may not need it after Mid April MAYBE. Thanks again: DMS2009 for those!!! I gonna keep them going!!! They are great for her to start on (and she got them yesterday morning). She was vaping away every time I saw her and she was doing this really funny/cute/crazy dance that was JUST CRACKING ME UP!!!...and even though we work in a school...she's so slick and psyched that she was doing the dance with only me seeing in a crowded building. She "had her eyes out" and would suddenly stop dancing before anyone else saw her "JAMMING OUT ExCITED"!!! Like a freeze frame. I've never seen her so happy!!!. Quite an actress. SHES PSYCHED!!!
"my girl is set with the donations now!!!!....(if DROZD sends what I think she may be sending.) THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING MY GOOD FRIEND SAVE HER LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!! She will be on the forum soon (Shes a little shy and new to "forums" in general as am I). She or I will let you know HERE what her user name is.
YOU ROCK!!!! HAPPY KARMA ALL AROUND!!!!!!!!!
ENJOY IN HER SUCCESS AND ALL OF THE SHARING!!!! THIS IS SUCH A HAPPY STORY!!!!!
THANKS A MILLION!!!!
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Gawsh. I just read all the pages I'd missed the last couple of days. You guys are so friggin' kind. And steve. Rock on. I love this V4L place.
Thanks Steve. That is so kind of you. I sent a PM to you but not sure if it sent. I am new to all this so bear with me. Thanks to drodz also for starting this thread. The generosity in this forum is amazing!
Just an update on my aunt and uncle. They have to wait another 30 days before they know if they have full custody of their grandchildren. This is so agonizing for them.
You people just ROCK!!!! I am siting here crying my eyes out.....I cant see the computer screen.haha I have been so blessed in my life. I dont have a hard luck story. I just want to thank you all for doing this for people that are in need. I too have things that I dont need anymore...some 510 stuff... but I am also willing to make an order from V4L and send it on to someone in need. If someone that has put there story on here and did not hear from someone for help please post again to let me know.
Ok...just to share again..this was not originally my idea..I entered the same sort of "contest" back in Jan that was put on by another private ECF user...and I really want to give credit and thank him and what he did...comparatively, giving away my stuff that I wasn't using was just a pittance...he...well he picked 6 members from their stories at that time and ordered/bought us all our choice of mod..so from what I hear he ordered 4 chucks, 1 Super6, and I don't know what the other one was..
But, here's the short version of my story, and it really does sound like a comedy, no one could have that much bad luck.. Back in March of 2007 my first child was born (this was the high point)....then in june, while at work someone wasn't watching what they were doing and ran over my leg with a piece of heavy machinery (if anyone knows what a grade-all is) resulting in both a tibia and fibia break..so it was down to supporting a family of 4 on workman's comp...the doctor told me I had to quit smoking because he said my leg wouldn't heal properly and if I didn't then there wasn't anything he could/would do for me and would mark the workmans comp as resolved (even though I was still in a cast) and he pushed the chantix perscription on me...that didn't go so well...so Dec 9th I was finally healed and cleared to go back to work... but I wasn't feeling quite right and was getting a new doctor anyway so I had to go in for my initial check up with the new guy...see him on Dec 10th talk to him about how I wasn't feeling right, and he says he's not real sure to go see this other doc (who luckily had an opening the next day)...go to see that guy and matter of fact he says "you've got cancer";go get these couple of tests done and in 3 days you're in for surgery; it's akin to a hernia operation, so you'll be off work for a month, and no lifting more than 10 pounds; afterward I think you'll be able to get by with some radiation therapy; quit smoking and heres a chantix perscription....now, my son was born at the end of march and I got hurt at the beginning of june, we're looking at Feb at least til I can really play with him or pick him up...I work a skilled trade in heavy construction so winter is rough and jobs slim anyway but I was barely scraping by supporting a family of 4 on the little that workmans comp was, I'm going to be healing from surgery for my first christmas with my son, and now faced with unemployment...how easy was it to quit smoking?...lol..surgery goes well..I was still in a daze from even getting the news, I still hadn't processed it..heal up and radiation comes around and I get the lowered immune system talk, and I say that I work heavy construction and I'm really hoping to get back to work...so the oncologist and radiologist laughs and says not in that enviroment while receiving radiation; another month off..*sigh* so finally it's all over, I'm better...march is apprentice school so we're working but not really..that finishes and I work for a couple of months on and off..and then july 4 2008...some kids screwing around with fireworks burn down our appartment complex at 2:30 in the morning we were home and I barely got the fiance and our 2 kids out...so as I sit and watch all our stuff burn to the ground as the sire is spreading over 11 buildings and all I can think is because of what's happened over the past several months I let the renter's insurance lapse because the electric and other bills had to take priority...
Now we gotta find a new place and all new clothes, and I got to get all new work clothes and work tools (and being in a skilled trade, our tools aren't exactly the cheapest (like a minimum of $25 per wrench, and thats the cheapest tool))..not real easy to quit smoking then either...this puts us into August of 2008 and the economy in Ohio hits the building trades HARD.. I had a couple of short 1 or 2 day jobs, longest was a 2 week stretch...so it's back on unemployment...of course going to the union hiring hall daily and just about all the coworkers smoke, so again not the easiest to quit..on and off all the way to this past Nov when I finally look at the fiance and say we're gonna try this e-cig thing, I don't want to smoke around the kids and I want to have enough energy and breath to play with my son..scraped together a weeks worth of cig $, knowing that if it doesn't work well we'd be screwed for a week..we quit analogs the morning our first kit showed up (and yeah we only had enough to get 1 kit to split) and we still have the 1/2 pack on the mantle as a testament to willpower and how helpful the e-cig has been. Since Nov I've been lucky enough to win a couple of contests here and there including that mod one that moved me so...so the stuff that I'm not using, I don't feel right selling..it gets sent on to those that it'll do good and help.
And that's all I have to say about that..
But, here's the short version of my story, and it really does sound like a comedy, no one could have that much bad luck.. Back in March of 2007 my first child was born (this was the high point)....then in june, while at work someone wasn't watching what they were doing and ran over my leg with a piece of heavy machinery (if anyone knows what a grade-all is) resulting in both a tibia and fibia break..so it was down to supporting a family of 4 on workman's comp...the doctor told me I had to quit smoking because he said my leg wouldn't heal properly and if I didn't then there wasn't anything he could/would do for me and would mark the workmans comp as resolved (even though I was still in a cast) and he pushed the chantix perscription on me...that didn't go so well...so Dec 9th I was finally healed and cleared to go back to work... but I wasn't feeling quite right and was getting a new doctor anyway so I had to go in for my initial check up with the new guy...see him on Dec 10th talk to him about how I wasn't feeling right, and he says he's not real sure to go see this other doc (who luckily had an opening the next day)...go to see that guy and matter of fact he says "you've got cancer";go get these couple of tests done and in 3 days you're in for surgery; it's akin to a hernia operation, so you'll be off work for a month, and no lifting more than 10 pounds; afterward I think you'll be able to get by with some radiation therapy; quit smoking and heres a chantix perscription....now, my son was born at the end of march and I got hurt at the beginning of june, we're looking at Feb at least til I can really play with him or pick him up...I work a skilled trade in heavy construction so winter is rough and jobs slim anyway but I was barely scraping by supporting a family of 4 on the little that workmans comp was, I'm going to be healing from surgery for my first christmas with my son, and now faced with unemployment...how easy was it to quit smoking?...lol..surgery goes well..I was still in a daze from even getting the news, I still hadn't processed it..heal up and radiation comes around and I get the lowered immune system talk, and I say that I work heavy construction and I'm really hoping to get back to work...so the oncologist and radiologist laughs and says not in that enviroment while receiving radiation; another month off..*sigh* so finally it's all over, I'm better...march is apprentice school so we're working but not really..that finishes and I work for a couple of months on and off..and then july 4 2008...some kids screwing around with fireworks burn down our appartment complex at 2:30 in the morning we were home and I barely got the fiance and our 2 kids out...so as I sit and watch all our stuff burn to the ground as the sire is spreading over 11 buildings and all I can think is because of what's happened over the past several months I let the renter's insurance lapse because the electric and other bills had to take priority...
Now we gotta find a new place and all new clothes, and I got to get all new work clothes and work tools (and being in a skilled trade, our tools aren't exactly the cheapest (like a minimum of $25 per wrench, and thats the cheapest tool))..not real easy to quit smoking then either...this puts us into August of 2008 and the economy in Ohio hits the building trades HARD.. I had a couple of short 1 or 2 day jobs, longest was a 2 week stretch...so it's back on unemployment...of course going to the union hiring hall daily and just about all the coworkers smoke, so again not the easiest to quit..on and off all the way to this past Nov when I finally look at the fiance and say we're gonna try this e-cig thing, I don't want to smoke around the kids and I want to have enough energy and breath to play with my son..scraped together a weeks worth of cig $, knowing that if it doesn't work well we'd be screwed for a week..we quit analogs the morning our first kit showed up (and yeah we only had enough to get 1 kit to split) and we still have the 1/2 pack on the mantle as a testament to willpower and how helpful the e-cig has been. Since Nov I've been lucky enough to win a couple of contests here and there including that mod one that moved me so...so the stuff that I'm not using, I don't feel right selling..it gets sent on to those that it'll do good and help.
And that's all I have to say about that..
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