On Thursday, September 24th, MIX 107.7 sponsored a Radiothon to benefit The RonaldMcDonald House Charities! THANK YOU DAYTON for all of your support!
CLICK HERE for pics from our day!
With 3 different ways to donate, online, on site and call in we raised $21,187!
Also, from 6am - 5pm we auctioned off FRONT ROW tickets and an autographed guitar from Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The Winning bid was for $700!
Thank You So Much to everyone who donated and all of the folks who stopped in, called in and emailed us their stories, read some of them below.
Even though our Radiothon is over, you can still donate to The Ronald McDonald House Charity!
Stories that were sent in during our Radiothon....
I got a little choked up this morning when I heard the station was doing a Radioathon for Ronald McDonald House. 3 ½ years ago when my husband Dave and I had our son Ethan our lives were sent into a tailspin. Ethan was born with potentially fatal heart defects. The amazing staff at Children’s Dayton diagnosed him and stabilized him for transfer to Cincinnati where he had 8 hours of open heart surgery at just a week old. We lived in the Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati for almost 2 months that year. The experience was scary but strangely wonderful at the same time. I could never put a price on what the Ronald McDonald House Charities provided for us and our family. Food, shelter, friends and memories, good and bad. Ethan is doing great now but we still do whatever we can for Ronald McDonald House.
I have challenged all of my friends on Facebook to get out there checkbooks and support this charity that will always have a special place in our hearts. I will be making a donation online today for $100 dollars.
-Michelle
Hi Jeff and Kristi,
I love what you are doing with the Ronald McDonald fundraiser. I just had to take the time to let you know of our experience with the Ronald McDonald house. We have spent time on several occassions in the Ronald McDonald house.
Our daughter Daisy was diagnosed with a kidney disease at 13 yrs. of age. We went through 2 1/2yrs of complications with her prior to her kidney transplant.
Daisy was diagnosed at 13 with incurable kidney disease. At 16, when most young people were looking forward to prom and preparing for college. Daisy went into Kidney failure and was dealing with uncontrollable blood pressures as high as 240/140 She had 11 Grandma seizures from the High Bps, one of which stopped her from breathing. Thank God we had paramedics on the scene to get her back. She was taken to the hospital were they discovered she had had a mini stroke and a weak vessal in her brain in the middle of everything else. As if this weren't enough, the seizures caused the nerves in Daisy's leg to begin to die. She was diagnosed with neuropothy and spent a long period of time in a wheel chair. After which she developed a problem with vitamin K deficiency and pancreatitis. she couldn't eat for almost 3 weeks and lived on IV's. Daisy lost all of her beautiful waist length hair and resembled a chemo patient. All this time we are doing dialysis 3 days a week( a scary process) Daisy ended up in dialysis coma more then once and had to be brought back. She had fevers from infections that topped 107 degrees. The doctor told us more then once, Daisy shouldn't be here, if it had been anyone else they wouldn't have made it. Guess her bullheadedness was good for something. LOL...After over 2yr.s of living H*ll, we prepared Daisy for a Kidney Transplant.
But as usual nothing ever goes routine for Daisy!
The docs. operated to take Daisy's kidneys out to prepare her for the transplant. The surgery went well but she started bleeding out after surgery and lost 6 pints of blood. The docs had to go back in for a second surgery to stop the bleeding. Daisy ended up with 11 incisions and spent several days in ICU....GEEZ!!! It was all so crazy! So unreal!!!
The only consolation in the whole ordeal is that we got to be near our daughter through it all because of the Ronald McDonald house. A GOD SEND for us!!!!!! Our daughter made us a REAL Ronald McDonald house supporter. We didn't have to worry about having money, they took care of our lodging and meals. They had a large Multi facility kitchen were several family going through the same tough times could cook together and give each other comfort. It is all so wonderful. A bright spot of sunlight in the middle of a hugh storm.
Oh BTW, Daisy did get her transplant. Her and I had beds in the same hospital room. The guys stayed at the Ronald McDonald house while Daisy and I recovered from the surgery.
We celebrate Daisy's 7th yr. as transplant patient Oct. 3rd 2009! 7 Yrs. and holding.
I would love to say ...Thank you Ronald McDonald house. WE LOVE you!!!!!
Irma & Ted
