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LIMOMx2
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Re: How would you react to this email?
I would feel really bad for her but she is a SAHM. Her kids are in school. If money was that difficult she should go get maybe a PT job to help out. She is capable of working.
Many people support her. She is not even the one that put this recent benefit contest together. Other people that don't even know her in "real life" did.
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Re: How would you react to this email?
Posted by 5ofClubs
I would feel really bad for her but she is a SAHM. Her kids are in school. If money was that difficult she should go get maybe a PT job to help out. She is capable of working.
Many people support her. She is not even the one that put this recent benefit contest together. Other people that don't even know her in "real life" did.
Yeah and the whole, well I thought you were my fiends line.....like you owe her to be her friend. The more I think about this the more it irks me.
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| Posted 3/9/07 11:50 AM |
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MrsERod
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Re: How would you react to this email?
Posted by 5ofClubs
I would feel really bad for her but she is a SAHM. Her kids are in school. If money was that difficult she should go get maybe a PT job to help out. She is capable of working.
Many people support her. She is not even the one that put this recent benefit contest together. Other people that don't even know her in "real life" did.
wait - she CAN work, but doesn't???? 
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| Posted 3/9/07 11:50 AM |
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DebG
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Re: How would you react to this email?
ewww, ewww ewwwwwwww and did I mention ewwww?
I feel, as a person in a similiar situation (benefits to help with health bills that are piling up) that this email is DISGUSTING!
I'm simply dumbfounded that this woman hit send on this email.
If it were me? Well I would probably never acknowledge her existance again.
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| Posted 3/9/07 11:51 AM |
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Shelly
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Re: How would you react to this email?
Posted by 5ofClubs
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can I ask something stupid...what does "I have 150 ML" mean?
Mailing List
I wondered that too- I thought maybe it was blood or something.
While she went about this totally wrong, I sympathize with her desperation. Can you imagine your child being sick adn not being able to afford the surgery ??
To answer your question, this is how I would react. I would feel bad for her. If youwant to respond, you can say something like
"I'm sorry you are disappointed in the response you are getting. I entered some of your contests but I cannot possible enter every contest.
As a parent, I understand where you are coming from, but I fear that your e-mail may have offended some of your target audience and in the end, it will just turn them off to your mailings. Although I'm sure everyone understands your frustration, your tone was very harsh.
I wish you all the luck in the world. Your family will be in my prayers. Meanwhile, I will do what I can."
ETA: I just read some more posts. I would just ignore her e-mail if you don't know her in RL. She is upset but is going about this the totally wrong way.
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MarisaK
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Re: How would you react to this email?
WOW - This really bothered me !!!
I may get totally flamed for this but it's not my repsonsibility to pay my friend's kid's medical expenses .........People go to work to pay their own bills, provide for their own children and families. I can have empathy for others, and if a FRIEND or family member found themselves in a really bad situation, I would help in any way I could - But that is not always by way of my checkbook !
How does she know what the financial situation is of the 150 people on her "ML" ??
IMO to ask anyone for financial assistance by by way of a 150 person MAILING list is in extremely poor taste !!! and then on top of that have the audacity to scold those same people for not writing your a check ??
Obviously everyone got her email, and those who could donate, I'm sure did what they felt was appropriate.
I wouldn't even dignify that w/ an email response. Just delete it and try not to let the aggravation get to you (although for some odd reason it has gotten to me ........) 
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DebG
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Re: How would you react to this email?
I have learned that there are VERY few times when surgery that is needed and necessary doesn't get done...regardless if hte patient can pay in full right now.
People can finance and such. You may pay for the rest of your natural life and then some...but the surgery happens.
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MarisaK
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Re: How would you react to this email?
OH - and to add to this, my husband works in hospital finance, like the above poster said, if surgery is necessary, it gets done - they don't turn people away ..........and you know who ends up paying when the patient doesn't? The hospital. -
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| Posted 3/9/07 12:02 PM |
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evenedan
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Re: How would you react to this email?
I'd click delete and move on.
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| Posted 3/9/07 12:16 PM |
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Stacey1403
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Re: How would you react to this email?
How do you know if any of her story is actually true? If you only know her via the Internet she may be a scammer.
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| Posted 3/9/07 12:17 PM |
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Re: How would you react to this email?
Posted by jxnoscar
You know when financial worry hits, people let emotions take over. While I do not condone the email, I think she is just really worried about here son and had her breaking point.
I agree
I don't think what she wrote in this email was right, however I think she is scared. I don't know what I would do. Knowing me my first reaction would not be a good one, but that is why I have my DH around to calm me down sometimes. So needless to say I don't think my advice would be good. I'm sorry she upset you! 
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| Posted 3/9/07 1:02 PM |
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Ltdentway99
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Re: How would you react to this email?
Yes, I agree. This woman has an extreme sense of entitlement. Why doesn't she get a part-time job at Starbucks so she could get health insurance? People need to be responsible for themselves. How does someone throw a fund-raiser for themselves? I don't get it.
Posted by MarisaK
WOW - This really bothered me !!!
I may get totally flamed for this but it's not my repsonsibility to pay my friend's kid's medical expenses .........People go to work to pay their own bills, provide for their own children and families. I can have empathy for others, and if a FRIEND or family member found themselves in a really bad situation, I would help in any way I could - But that is not always by way of my checkbook !
How does she know what the financial situation is of the 150 people on her "ML" ??
IMO to ask anyone for financial assistance by by way of a 150 person MAILING list is in extremely poor taste !!! and then on top of that have the audacity to scold those same people for not writing your a check ??
Obviously everyone got her email, and those who could donate, I'm sure did what they felt was appropriate.
I wouldn't even dignify that w/ an email response. Just delete it and try not to let the aggravation get to you (although for some odd reason it has gotten to me ........)
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| Posted 3/9/07 1:17 PM |
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tray831
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Re: How would you react to this email?
I'm sure many people will respond to her email and try to set her straight w/ her tone.
And especially since this woman asks for donations all the time. Let's all work to support a SAH mom. Sorry, no sympathy here.
I thought this was a close friend of yours........I cant understand how she is sending this email to people she dont even know? The f'n ballz and nerve of people on this earth.........
You dont have to respond to it if you dont have to, but if I ever got an email like that, I could never hold myself back from responding.......and quite nasty, I might add!
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