Now Available!! Go Team Kathy T-Shirts!!

The design is done and I have the first one! I'll post a pic of me wearing it at this weekend's craft fair, but in the meantime, here's the finished design. Please excuse the wrinkles...I had it in my stitching bag and would pull it out, brag about it, and stuff it back in. Shirts are available in pretty much any color (even neon - my cousin would love that!) and size, unisex and ladies (ladies shirts are the same girth as men's, but a little bit shorter sleeves and torso length), even babies and toddlers! 

To order, contact me or Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More in San Diego at 858-538-FROG (3764) directly. If you call Big Frog, be sure to talk to Tom and ask for the Go Team Kathy shirt. White shirts are $15.99 each (plus tax) and color shirts are $16.99 (plus tax). If you buy directly from Big Frog, they will ship it for you (or you can pick it up) and we will get 20% of the proceeds! From that 20%, a portion will be donated to the American Liver Foundation and the rest will help pay for Mom's caregiver expenses. If you buy through *me*, and I have enough ordered to make a bulk order of them (bulk order discounts start at 5 shirts and get better with more shirts ordered), we'd get MORE than 20%! If you buy through me and I don't have more than 5 shirts to order, we would still get the 20% donation from Big Frog. 

I only need to sell about a dozen shirts to pay for the website to go up. After that happens, I can simply have a link here for people to pick whatever shirt they want in whatever size they want. No need to call (though you still could if you wanted to).

Close-Up of the ALF logo on the back.

Close-Up of the crest on the left front; the next batch will be more lavender (Mom's fave color).

I want to stress how important it is to keep the caregiver around. I CANNOT take care of Mom by myself - it's simply not a one-person job. Also, I need a paying job! I'm looking (casting a wide net and applying to everything), but I haven't had positive responses yet. A job would help me distance myself mentally from the stress of caregiving (and the stress of watching my mother deteriorate and suffer the way she does with few or no solutions) AND help pay for the caregiver. I need to be able to work to keep the caregiver and help out with the bills around the house. Until then, we're struggling to make ends meet, and Mom can't pay for the caregiver herself. There just isn't room in the budget, and we don't qualify for aid as no agency recognizes medical bills anymore (i.e. if she wasn't sick, she'd be financially comfortable, but since she IS sick, and I'm unemployed, we fall below poverty level). So fundraising like this is essential to keeping the caregiver coming. She may be awesome, but she won't come work with my Mom for free! Nor should she have to....if I could afford it, she'd be getting paid a whole lot more than what we pay her now and she does deserve double (and double is what agencies would charge us)! But she works with us and makes the most out of the hours we have her here. I'm hoping that once we get this off the ground, we'll get more traffic to this blog, and Mom will get into it more. She likes reading this and likes the idea of helping other people with HE. I see this as a great opportunity to raise awareness, help others with HE and their caregivers, and help continue getting the care that Mom needs. 

A huge THANK YOU to Big Frog for helping us with this! They are so nice there and I love that they enjoy giving back to their community and helping people!

And Juice It Up in the Village Walk Plaza in Murrieta knows how much my Mom loves her Kathy's Special JIU and they are allowing us to post a flyer about the shirts in their window. They are very sweet! :)