ATTENTION PAYPAL - INCOMING FUNDS ALERT

This one is KJ's idea. I just remembered it after a few busy days and figured - well, as long as we're sending warning and a plea not to freeze the account - might as well put a challenge to em.

I don't embarrass easily - but when you confuse me I do sit in a corner and drool.

I didn't DO anything. I saw Kim's post and it was buried, so I posted it where people could see it...........and then all of the sudden there were Warriors all over it. I joined the action, but if everyone hadn't swarmed in on that post with help, ideas, money - - Kim would still be sitting and wondering what it would feel like to be in first place.

Dudes - normalize on me. That halo might slip to fit around my waist but it's not going to stay up to shine any light on my face.

MY thanks go to - well - go look at that list of 100 some thanks under that first post -- and then you'll see who we can call freaking special. And BIG WET OLD LADY LIP SMOOCHES to Allen.

You were right up there too, Andie, along with Bill Farnham and a few other good people. Sal was, to me, the leader of the pack though. You all make me proud to be a Warrior.

Kim -

We're so darned glad to have you back - I'm just giddy (and you won't hear that from me often)!!! My comments weren't meant to be a dire warning - just a concern about attracting too much attention at PP.

Are you the big kahuna Kidney Walker now?

kay

Kim, I'm, laughing my butt off right now. Guess I have what Kay has lol.

I looked for the post you made awhile back about your offer to put something on the back of your T-Shirts. Glad you changed your thoughts on that one - them there shirts would have to be so long, you wouldn't be able to walk!!! :p

I know you were just released from the hospital. Are you going to be able to participate in the walk? Cause if you can't, I'll make the trip down and push ya in a wheelchair.

The Kidney Warriors........we couldn't have come up with that one sooner?? <smacking forehead>
Just so you win all the prizes

It's just so nice to see you here posting! Just let us know if you need anything -- we'll work it out LOL!

Andie

Well, let me just give a special Warrior shout out to Steve (seasoned) for kicking off the drive with an over the top contribution of $250. That kind of unbridled generousity shows what kind of man Steve is. So kudos to Steve.

Can't wait to see pictures of that billboard. I hope they are not going to use stock photography on that thing, I want to see the real Kidney Walkers up there. (Well, not actually up there but in the picture...)

Congrats Kim, you sure know how to do things the hard way. :p

KJ

Don't you worry about that, Kim. A "group" thanks is enough. I think I speak for a good many Warriors in saying that we didn't do anything we didn't want to do, and we didn't do it for thanks or recognition. We did it to help. I happen to believe that's one of the reasons we're here on this planet, to help others when they need it and we're able.

That IS awesome, Kim!

The WARRIOR Forum is really a powerful place alright and it is never more in evidence as when there is a Warrior in need!

'A friend in need is a friend indeed'

Seriously woman.

This is official notice for those who haven't been following along: You want her on your team.

Nice work. Very, very, nice work (not just the post below, but everything).

Steve -

It's called "honest" - and Sal is good at that!

kay

Humble? ME? LMAO -- I'm not even starting to be humble. In fact I can be one of the most insufferably arrogant humans on the planet.
I'm honest though. I can't take credit where credit isn't due. My name was on the OP. Big squat.

This list is NOT in any order. It is, I believe also incomplete and my sincerest apologies to ANYONE deserving who has been left out. There were so darned many that I have to go back through the thread to try to find them all again.

First Mention is Allen Says - because, not only of the donation, which was generous, but for the BANNER - because that is where the visibility came from - and the unifying factor in this effort.
Kay King -- credit for the signatures.
Seasoned - sizable donation to get the ball rolling.
KJ - logo, donation et al
Karen Blundell - put the share tool in my blog.
John Durham - soliciting his own forum
Wags - blogs, tweets, product donations
Mattaclear - petitioning his sizable list - Service donation
Friend -- donating WSO
Caleb Spilchen - service donation
NathanTK - soliciting list
Waterotter - exeptional promotional contacts
Andy - endless promotional efforts
Mukul Verma -- product donation
Mike_Lucas - solicitation of his gaming community
Dean Jackson - WSO donation
MikeAmbrosio - Product donation
LasseKohau - service donation
Dennis Gaskill - product donation
Jesus Perez - product donation

OTHERS - everyone that donated or spread the word - there are too many of those, and too many unknowns to even start to make a list here.
Now take a look at the 101 thank you's under that OP - those thanks were only "mine" indirectly -- they are actually tributes from people who were concerned about Kim. You've never seen ME with 101 for spitting wisdom in this forum - will never happen.

At any rate, the real thanks, I think, goes to Warrior KimW - because it is HIM being the type of guy who makes a community stand up in such events, that we were able to remember who we are and what this forum has always been about.

That's a hell of a lot of thanks for being the first one to see your post and unbury it. Okay - I won the race for being in the right place at the right time. Kewl. If that makes everyone happy, fine.

I have to ask you something, Kim.

Ya know, every now and again things just happen. I was always taught that EVERYTHING happens for a reason. Right now we have every faction in the world at everyone else's throats. That is something that EVERYONE can agree upon.

Just a few weeks ago, the whole world came together to watch the result of a multi-national quest to recover 33 men from a mine.
Nobody was worried about what nationality, religion, sexual preference, or any other specific about those men. The WHOLE world hoped and prayed in their own fashion, and celebrated the recovery of those men.

Now and again the WF gets polluted with spammers and scammers, people who neither understand, nor care, about the unity between the people here.

Suddenly, you get unexplainably ill. And suddenly we have unity again. We have pride in the Warrior name again. Every warrior, whether they knew you or not was pulling for you in unity. And we created masses of positive energy, not just for you, but for the whole community and any non-member viewers reading your plight. And your cause - a just one - received needed funds, and people gave and felt that they did something that gave their lives more meaning. And people hoped - at a time there is little of that to spare.

And just as suddenly as you became ill, it all just disappeared with no rhyme or reason for its beginning, no explanation for its existence, and no known reason for its departure.

Do ya think........maybe........that there was a reason you got hit like you did and once its purpose had been achieved it just went off elsewhere to bring other groups together?

I think the universe is trying to tell us, and is giving a LOT of very strong indications, that we need to start looking beyond a person's color, nationality, religion, sex, age, sexual preferences - and every other thing that pulls us apart and start worrying about what is in our hearts. I think if we are going to survive we better take heed of these little coincidences and start to honor the quantum knowledge that it is true we are all one. When we do for someone else, we are, in fact, doing for ourselves as well - and for all mankind, because positive energy is strong and the more we put out, the more dominated by positive energy this whole planet becomes.

uh......just sayin'