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*BUGS AMONGST THE WAVES* Our first Recipient!!!!!!!!!!

GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
edited June 2011 in The Porch
It’s about time we let you all know who the first person is that Bugs Amongst the Waves has chosen to assist!

Mike is a 33 year old US Army Vet. He lives with his girlfriend in Ohio. Due to back injuries sustained while serving our country, Mike is unable to work at this time. He has had 2 surgeries in three years to place 10 pins in his spine, and will likely need at least one more surgery. He has nerve damage and severe arthritis, and is living in constant pain. Mike’s girlfriend, due to cut backs, is set to lose her job at the beginning of June.

Mike currently survives on a small monthly VA benefit that, after paying his bills, leaves him with about $40. He is currently working with a case worker to try to get his benefits raised, but the process is a very long one. We want to help Mike in any way that we can. Grocery costs and utility bills are the most difficult for him right now, and that is what we are starting with. We also have a few other ideas in mind and are in contact with businesses local to Mike to see what they may be able to contribute as well as researching services that are available to him through his community.

If you have anything to spare, a small cash donation, an item for the garage sale, please know that it will be greatly appreciated! Cash donations can be made via paypal to: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:BugsAmongstTheWaves@gmail.com">BugsAmongstTheWaves@gmail.com</a><!-- e -->. Garage sale item details can be sent to Kelly via PM to GivenToLukinKP. Please see the garage sale thread for details on how it works: http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=156055.

Mike sent us the following message, and we want to share it with you…
Even though you’re still working to figure out what to do for me, Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You guys really have helped me and my lady. This is a great group and I hope to help you guys. You're helping me and I do fully intend to help back even if I can only spare 5 bucks for a couple of months I will.
Please keep this going I'm sure I'm not the only one on here with problems right now. I also want to say that you guys are so awesome for doing this. I mean this just came out of nowhere that is completely awesome that a bunch of members got together and said let's help our fellow members out.
I have been a member of other boards and I have NEVER seen anything like this. You guys are truly one of a kind. This is what PJ is about helping your fellow brother and sister. Please don't give up if you hit a snag somewhere and please if you need anything let me know i will try and help you as I can. I can't thank you all enough.

Thank you
Mike

We believe it is of the GREATEST IMPORTANCE to support those in our communities who are in need, and we are sure you would agree with us. You never know when struggle will infiltrate itself into your life. Mike IS one of us--a PJ fanatic and a 10 clubber. We know times are tough, and not everyone can donate to every cause because many of us are struggling in our own right. We hope you know how much your support, monetary and otherwise, means so much to us and to the people who will benefit.

If you want to read more about the Bugs Amongst the Waves group and our goals- please see our main thread here: http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=156048

There will be more added to this as time goes on- please check back often!

Hearts and thoughts,
The Bugs Crew
Don, Lorna, Kelly, Jo, Adam & Matt
Makes much more sense...

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2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
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  • StillHereStillHere Posts: 7,795
    BUMP for helping Mike! :D

    C'mon, you know you wanna! :D

    This is only the first of many guys,

    and you never know when it could be you...things happen.

    Mike has given his all for us, let's see what we can do to help him out.
    peace,
    jo

    http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
    "How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
    "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    bump for Mike! :D
    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • InOurTreeInOurTree Posts: 67
    Bumping...this is awesome. :D
    Rochelle
    See the path cut by the moon... for you to walk on...
  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    Since i was busy this morning and saw that Givento lukin will be gone i will go ahead and say it.

    I'm Mike. All of you are awesome and i wish i could hug all of you. Your kindness is awesome and i hope one day to meet all of you and say Thank You. Reading this thread brought many tears to my eyes but they are good tears.

    I hope all of you continue to donate your time, items, cash and whatever else this group needs. We are a family here and we should all strive to help one and other when we can.

    Again thank you from the bottom of my heart everyone here is awesome and i can not say thank you enough.

    Mike
    My butt itches!
  • StillHereStillHere Posts: 7,795
    Hi Mike..only the very best to you. We are very happy to be doing this ...it might not be much, but we hope that it will make things just a little bit easier for you and yours. :)

    Rock on Mike!

    Be Sound :D
    peace,
    jo

    http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
    "How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
    "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    StillHere wrote:
    Hi Mike..only the very best to you. We are very happy to be doing this ...it might not be much, but we hope that it will make things just a little bit easier for you and yours. :)

    Rock on Mike!

    Be Sound :D

    Every little bit helps. Like i've said i'm glad that there are people who care somedays it's hard to remember that.

    Again thank you all.


    On a sidenote for everyone else

    If your struggling don't be afraid to ask for help. I know it sucks for whatever reason mine were hard headed and to prideful. But there comes a point when you can't swim anymore and you need someone to throw you a life jacket. We all need help every once in awhile and don't let stupid pride or anything get in the way. Nobody will think less of you for asking for help and if they do Ms Karma will pay them a hefty visit one day.
    My butt itches!
  • Paulina87Paulina87 Poland Posts: 3,303
    :clap::clap:
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    yes. it's ok to ask for help. we're not independent but interdependent. think about it.
    great cause!
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • gfnk001gfnk001 Posts: 652
    This is amazing!!! Thank you Mike for what you've done for all of us. I can't think of a better 1st recipient.

    Bump
    living in the present tense.

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  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    Bump for Mike!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
  • KatyzKatyz Posts: 838
    Bump Bump for Mike.... :D:D xxx
    Three Crooked Hearts


    http://www.supermansammyz.blogspot.com
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,944
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    yes. it's ok to ask for help. we're not independent but interdependent. think about it.
    great cause!

    Interdependent- well said! Bump for Mike, Bump for BATW! :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    I agree, well said! Bump! :D
    brianlux wrote:
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    yes. it's ok to ask for help. we're not independent but interdependent. think about it.
    great cause!

    Interdependent- well said! Bump for Mike, Bump for BATW! :D
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
  • GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    Response has been reeeedunkulois!!! Love you all!!! Keep it up!!!!! <3
    Makes much more sense...

    2011: East Troy, WI 1 & 2; Toronto ON 1 & 2; Hamilton ON
    2012: Berlin, Germany 1& 2; Stockholm Sweden; Oslo Norway; Copenhagen Denmark
    2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
    2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
    2016: Wrigley Field- Chicago 1&2
  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    Response has been reeeedunkulois!!! Love you all!!! Keep it up!!!!! <3
    :D That's great to hear Kelly!!!!
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
  • GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    I just want to say- I known yr not all from The US- this is a prime example of one giving ALL... Mike, thank you for your service to our country- without folks like you, we would be completely screwed. Thank you for being part of what keeps us safe, day after day...without people like you,we would not know th freedoms we do here today. Thank you mike- for all you have given up for us and all we have to thank you for due to people like you. Much, much love and appreciation to you, my friend, my hero....
    Makes much more sense...

    2011: East Troy, WI 1 & 2; Toronto ON 1 & 2; Hamilton ON
    2012: Berlin, Germany 1& 2; Stockholm Sweden; Oslo Norway; Copenhagen Denmark
    2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
    2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
    2016: Wrigley Field- Chicago 1&2
  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    Couldn't have said it better Kelly. Thank you Mike.
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    I just want to say- I known yr not all from The US- this is a prime example of one giving ALL... Mike, thank you for your service to our country- without folks like you, we would be completely screwed. Thank you for being part of what keeps us safe, day after day...without people like you,we would not know th freedoms we do here today. Thank you mike- for all you have given up for us and all we have to thank you for due to people like you. Much, much love and appreciation to you, my friend, my hero....
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
  • StillHereStillHere Posts: 7,795
    ditto

    and BUMP!
    peace,
    jo

    http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
    "How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
    "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    Loulou wrote:
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    Response has been reeeedunkulois!!! Love you all!!! Keep it up!!!!! <3
    :D That's great to hear Kelly!!!!

    woohoo!!!! :D
    I LOVE MUSIC.
    www.cluthelee.com
    www.cluthe.com
  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    Bump...
    "It's so nice to hear that in other parts of the world, the stress- borne from envy- that one finds for themselves is the animosity they develop towards a person selling a box of records. How fortunate!" ~ Thirty Bills Unpaid

    MLMF NYC
  • KatyzKatyz Posts: 838
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    I just want to say- I known yr not all from The US- this is a prime example of one giving ALL... Mike, thank you for your service to our country- without folks like you, we would be completely screwed. Thank you for being part of what keeps us safe, day after day...without people like you,we would not know th freedoms we do here today. Thank you mike- for all you have given up for us and all we have to thank you for due to people like you. Much, much love and appreciation to you, my friend, my hero....


    This says it all...
    Three Crooked Hearts


    http://www.supermansammyz.blogspot.com
  • GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    I'm fling to extend my match through tomorrow Morning at 9:00 am central time. Just cause I love all you people :)

    Thank you from all of us here at BUGS-- this is the first of hopefully many reciepents :)
    Xoxoxo to you all.....
    Makes much more sense...

    2011: East Troy, WI 1 & 2; Toronto ON 1 & 2; Hamilton ON
    2012: Berlin, Germany 1& 2; Stockholm Sweden; Oslo Norway; Copenhagen Denmark
    2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
    2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
    2016: Wrigley Field- Chicago 1&2
  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    BUMP FOR MIKE! :D
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
  • conmanconman Posts: 7,493
    bump :)
  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    I just want to say- I known yr not all from The US- this is a prime example of one giving ALL... Mike, thank you for your service to our country- without folks like you, we would be completely screwed. Thank you for being part of what keeps us safe, day after day...without people like you,we would not know th freedoms we do here today. Thank you mike- for all you have given up for us and all we have to thank you for due to people like you. Much, much love and appreciation to you, my friend, my hero....

    I'm not a hero but thanks. I was a kid looking to get out of my small town and wanting to serve my country like my grandfather did in WWII. He fought and survived at Pearl Harbour he is and always will be my hero he inspired me to join the military. He was Navy but a slight fear of water swayed me away from the Navy.
    My butt itches!
  • GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    DURP wrote:
    I'm not a hero but thanks.

    Well, I ain't taking it back...
    BUMP!!! :)
    Makes much more sense...

    2011: East Troy, WI 1 & 2; Toronto ON 1 & 2; Hamilton ON
    2012: Berlin, Germany 1& 2; Stockholm Sweden; Oslo Norway; Copenhagen Denmark
    2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
    2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
    2016: Wrigley Field- Chicago 1&2
  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    DURP wrote:
    I'm not a hero but thanks.

    Well, I ain't taking it back...
    BUMP!!! :)

    Well then i will accept it very humbly of course
    My butt itches!
  • GivenToLukinKPGivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    PJ20 bump :)
    Makes much more sense...

    2011: East Troy, WI 1 & 2; Toronto ON 1 & 2; Hamilton ON
    2012: Berlin, Germany 1& 2; Stockholm Sweden; Oslo Norway; Copenhagen Denmark
    2013: Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA 1 & 2; Hartford, CT; Vancouver BC; Seattle, WA.
    2014: Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Moline, IL; Milwaukee, WI
    2016: Wrigley Field- Chicago 1&2
  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    thank you Loulou!
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    I'm fling to extend my match through tomorrow Morning at 9:00 am central time. Just cause I love all you people :)

    Thank you from all of us here at BUGS-- this is the first of hopefully many reciepents :)
    Xoxoxo to you all.....
    Thanks for being incredibly generous Kelly! :)
    “ "Thank you Palestrina. It’s a wonderful evening, it’s great to be here and I wanna dedicate you a super sexy song." " (last words of Mark Sandman of Morphine)


    Adelaide 1998
    Adelaide 2003
    Adelaide 2006 night 1
    Adelaide 2006 night 2
    Adelaide 2009
    Melbourne 2009
    Christchurch NZ 2009
    Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
    PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
    Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
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