[ITT: Charitable donations]Skywalker's daughter, Bethany

carpmaster · 30 May 2008 at 14:28

£25 sent. I've got a 5 year old girl and we both have our fingers crossed for little Bethany. Let's hope you can use the fund to speed up any investigative scans or treatment etc. Kids are incredibly tough and from the sounds of it you've got the best people available trying to help her. Good luck & best wishes to all of you.

deej · 30 May 2008 at 14:29

Best wishes to all of the Skywalker family.

Glad to help.

DampCat · 30 May 2008 at 14:30

Wow.

That's over £1000 more than my initial hopes for the project when it was first mentioned in the other thread. Unbelievable.

Extreme generosity and it's finest.

melbourne720 · 30 May 2008 at 14:31

1276.93 and climbing... wow, just wow.

RossG · 30 May 2008 at 14:31

Brilliant effort everyone!

jas72 · 30 May 2008 at 14:32

I just hope it can provide some help if not then some comfort.

Best of luck.

J

Anewbe4u · 30 May 2008 at 14:34

A lot more money should go within to the bank in the next week or so. Mine will take 3-5 days I think.

Confused · 30 May 2008 at 14:38

£10 on its way over, may take a couple of days.

Richdog · 30 May 2008 at 14:40

You have a tenner (after fees) winging its way to you via PP... this thread warms me' cockles and I hope it makes Skywalkers situation easier... and hopefully there'll be plenty left over to treat the kids to something fun!

paradigm · 30 May 2008 at 15:09

Richdog said:
You have a tenner (after fees) winging its way to you via PP... this thread warms me' cockles and I hope it makes Skywalkers situation easier... and hopefully there'll be plenty left over to treat the kids to something fun!

What fees?

AFAIK adding, sending and withdrawing the amounts we are talking about would be free.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees

Glaucus · 30 May 2008 at 15:11

paradigm said:
What fees?

AFAIK adding, sending and withdrawing the amounts we are talking about would be free.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees

Can you do a print screen as you need to be logged in.

TheKnat · 30 May 2008 at 15:34

Just sent a donation over.

I know it won't help get the scan or treatment any sooner, but if it can make the time in between any better then its money well spent!

Berserker · 30 May 2008 at 15:35

To clear this up once and for all so we can move on

)), the fees for receiving money into a PayPal Premier account are, for each transaction, 20p plus 3.4% of the transaction value, regardless of how the payment is made.

The only exceptions are for high transaction volume accounts where the fee does reduce a little (eventually reaching 1.4%).

Thebug · 30 May 2008 at 15:37

Gilly said he had signed up for the premier account - so you get charged 1.4% + £0.20 GBP to 3.4% + £0.20 GBP

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

Berserker · 30 May 2008 at 15:39

Gotta love the way they put the lowest fee first when what you actually get charged is the highest fee first, but that's a discussion for somewhere else.

Twinblade · 30 May 2008 at 15:45

Just a quick update from me, and if possible Skywalker I need a response from you if possible.

My contact is Head of Neurological Scanning at Argent Rehabilitation and I have explained the position, given that they do not usually do scans for members of the public I have managed to pursuade them to offer their services.

In order that they can proceed they do require some further information, so if possible Luke, can you confirm:

What is the exact type of scan required? I am aware its an MRI (slice brain scan) but is it a CT or PET Scan?

I will add you to msn later if thats ok and we can discuss it in a little more detail.

EDIT: Having spoken to Ian again it has been confirmed that it is likely that a PET Scan is what is required and they can usually get the scan arranged within 2-3 weeks of instruction. It will need to be supported by a Neuro report, but thats just to confirm exactly what the Scan needs to focus on.

Also, the cost for a PET Scan of this nature, including VAT will be around £1200-£1500 and the reports that follow are usually done very quickly. Again, I need this confirmed by Luke as I don't have all the evidence that he has.

Glaucus · 30 May 2008 at 15:49

by the sounds of it. it's more complicated than just a scan. It sounds like Bethany will have to be scanned several times over a month. Whilst they analysis exactly which tumours are causing the problems.

Skywalker · 30 May 2008 at 15:55

Twinblade said:
Just a quick update from me, and if possible Skywalker I need a response from you if possible.

My contact is Head of Neurological Scanning at Argent Rehabilitation and I have explained the position, given that they do not usually do scans for members of the public I have managed to pursuade them to offer their services.

In order that they can proceed they do require some further information, so if possible Luke, can you confirm:

What is the exact type of scan required? I am aware its an MRI (slice brain scan) but is it a CT or PET Scan?

I will add you to msn later if thats ok and we can discuss it in a little more detail.

Im not 100% to be honest at all , I shall be around on msn later so add away

Just a little something from Beth below , Took her about a minute but she got there in the end .

Dj_Jestar · 30 May 2008 at 15:56

I've donated. I have difficulty reading about Bethany without shedding a tear. My best wishes to Bethany and family.

Stinky · 30 May 2008 at 15:58

Skywalker said:
Im not 100% to be honest at all , I shall be around on msn later so add away

Just a little something from Beth below , Took her about a minute but she got there in the end .

my god. that is incredible. Really touched me mate!

really really sweet! lovely to see her

thanks for the video mate.

really touched by all your stuff!!