Thank you all for sending the postcards!!!

[EllenFrasier]

Thank you to all who sent out postcards! I didn't know that asking for postcards on the DIS boards was considered solicitation, so I apologize if I broke the rules. But I do thank all those that participated and I am sure that he will be granted some smiles from the mail he receives.

Are there any organizations who send postcards to children who have a terminal illness? My sister's grandson's step-brother (sorry, long family tree) has been diagnosed with rhabomyelosarcoma. It has already spread to his kidney. He had surgery to remove the tumor on the kidney and started out patient chemo last week. He's seven years old and I thought if he could get a bunch of postcards from a whole bunch of people, it would be really neat.
Kids usually love to get mail anyway.

Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[jmartinez1895]

PM me his information and I can add him to our card care at church. We send cards out to people who are ill and I'm sure they would be happy to start. Also on the Disney for Families board they have a post for people wanting to send or receive post cards and you should also check out this site as well. http://themouseforless.com/community/pixiepostcards.shtml

 

[WheeledTraveler]

It's not specific to terminally ill kids (in fact has no limits at all to who can request a postcard), but there's The Postcard Project http://efmpostcardproject.blogspot.com/ which is run by a woman who is terminally ill herself. The postcards don't have much writing, but they put a lot of stickers and stamps and stuff on them.

Just as a note, Elizabeth, who runs it is getting towards the end of being able to do it and I'm not sure if they have a backlog so I don't know what the timeframe is on getting a postcard out, but if there's any way she can get one to him, she will.

 

[eternaldisneyfan]

There are several sites that send happy mail.

www.makeachildsmile.com
www.hugsandhope.org

 

[EllenFrasier]

There are several sites that send happy mail.

www.makeachildsmile.com
www.hugsandhope.org

Thank you, I'll check them out!