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<div>Hi my name is Alfredo and I'm fundraising for Maestro Joey Heredia!
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<div>“DEAR FRIENDS AND FAMILY…. JOEY HEREDIA HAS BEEN A WORLD CLASS DRUMMER, FOR MANY YEARS, IN ALL GENRES. A TEACHER, A MENTOR, A FRIEND. JOEY’S HAS BEEN DEALING WITH PARKINSONS FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS AND IF THAT WASNT ENOUGH NOW HE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER, SO DEALING WITH BOTH IS A LOT. WE’RE ASKING FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT IN THE WAY OF MONEY. JOEY’S STOP WORKING AT THE BEGINNING OF 2023, HE NEEDS FUNDS FOR VARIOUS THINGS LIKE: HOUSING, FOOD, ASSISTANCE &amp; MEDICAL CARE.
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MAESTRO JOEY HEREDIA NEEDS OUR HELP!!!!

<div>Our very dear and beloved friend and colleague, Dean Brown, has a very aggressive form of cancer, and needs all the help and support we can give him. The particular type and source of the cancer remains a mystery after more than a month of testing. Dean was forced to check in to the hospital on October 3rd and remains there still while the medical staff tries to figure it out. This particular cancer, or cancers, is unbelievably painful as well as debilitating so Dean is on some pretty heavy sedation. The doctors have begun a sort of general immunotherapy to try to do something while they continue to diagnose it.

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<div>ANYONE who knows Dean knows the very pure joy of being his friend and colleague. Eric and George have worked with Dean for several decades now and shared countless laughs and hundreds, if not thousands of gigs playing with his musical genius and unbeatable energy onstage. After decades of tours, there is literally an army of his fellow musicians who just love the idea of being on the road with him. As we say, when you hire Dean, you don’t hire him because you want a guitarist on your project. You hire him because you want DEAN on your project. And you want him on there not just for his formidable musicianship but for the hang, for the laughter, the wisdom, the love, the perspectives, and let’s be honest, the little touch of pugnacity.

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<div>Dean is fighting the fight of his life in the hospital at this time, more than 3 weeks now, and getting ready for what looks like a long effort with chemotherapy and radiation. He needs every last bit of help we can send him and his incredible wife of 40 years, Ruth, who’s spending every day at the hospital with him. We’ve started this GoFundMe as a way of supporting a very long-time gift of a friend. Please donate anything you can, and please leave a message of support for Dean and Ruth. Thank you very much!

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Dean Brown's Medical Battle

***UPDATE May 29th, 2023*** Max was born on January 4th of 2023. We knew at the anatomy scan that he had a severe critical heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. He spent the first three months of his life, exactly, in the cardiovascular ICU after his first of three open heart surgeries, this one called, The Norwood. He basically has half a heart and the expert team of doctors and surgeons have re-plumbed his heart to reroute the blood flow, essentially causing his red and blue blood to mix (this is what they want). He has a Cath procedure coming up and two more surgeries - the Glenn and the Fontan. Max is doing good. He'll never have a normal heart, unless he has to have a transplant, but he can have a somewhat normal life, God willing. We have a ways to go. The first few years of life for HLHS kids is always rough; that's what we're told, and so far that's been true. We are in a period right now called "Interstage" where the mortality rate is highest, so we've pulled our daughter from school to protect us from any potential illness, any of which could prove fatal for Max. This is life right now. Max is here and he is so loved. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments and I can address them in a video. And if you feel so inclined, any amount of donation is so helpful and so appreciated. Thank you! ----------------------------------------- On April 27th, 2022, we discovered that we were pregnant with our second child, who is due to enter the world in early January 2023. On July 6th, we learned it was a boy! This was such great news as there are only a handful of boys on both sides of our family. We named him Maximillian Robert. Then on August 16th, the shocking news came after his first full anatomy scan. Max is afflicted with a severe congenital heart defect, which was soon diagnosed as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). Mystified, worried, confused, scared, and saddened were a fraction of the many emotions and states of mind we would soon find ourselves in. HLHS is simply and thoroughly explained here <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/hlhs.html" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/hlhs.html</a> Since the diagnosis, our lives have been a flurry of doctor's visits and planning sessions for all that lies ahead. One of the main difficulties we are up against is that the hospital specializing in pediatric cardiology happens to be in Oklahoma City, a 1.5 hours drive one way, and that's in perfect weather. In the months ahead, we will travel back and forth to OKC for weekly ultrasound and OBGYN appointments about ten times until finally, we will be admitted into the hospital and begin the rigors of induction and childbirth. Both the doctors and we are hoping for a normal birth. Thankfully, Afton is in good health and the pregnancy has been normal. Once born, Max will be stabilized and scheduled for his first of three significant surgeries designed to reroute the blood flow in and around his heart, called the Norwood. The second, the Glenn, will come at about four to six months of life, and the third and final, The Fontan, at about 2-3 years. After each of these procedures, the post-op process is estimated to be about three months long, at the very least. During that time, Afton will relocate to Oklahoma City, presumably staying at the Ronald McDonald House, but possibly in an extended stay AirBnb. I will remain in Tulsa, tending to Minerva, the cats, the house, and teaching five days a week at the University of Tulsa. Minerva and I will hopefully travel down to OKC to see Max and spend time with Afton as much as possible. I can't even imagine what kind of stress, both emotionally and financially, this will place on us. We are in no position to turn down any form of assistance at this point, which is why we are starting this fundraiser. Afton will be obviously taking off from her work as a professional chorister at her church job as long as she is in OKC. This alone will put us in a rough spot financially. We fortunately have Soonercare Medicaid which seems to be covering everything so far, but we’re not sure about what that will look like with everything that’s to come. We have amazing support in many other forms from our families, church, and friends, but as you can imagine, this will still be a trying time for all. We have received countless messages from friends and fans who have asked how they can help and where they can donate, so this is the place to do so. We cannot thank you enough for your generosity during this time. Everything helps, including your prayers. Please never cease praying! Thank you! The Mancinis

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<div><strong>Life-saving Pancreatic Cancer Cure for Pete Zeldman</strong>
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<div>My name is Cindy Shapiro and I’ve been close, personal friends with Pete Zeldman for the last 40 years. Here we are in our first band together in NYC, The Card Game. Pete on the left:
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<div>He is, without a doubt and without hyperbole, one of the greatest living musicians on planet Earth.
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<div>Click here to experience some of his incredible polyrhythmic work:
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<div>He has played with some of the greatest musicians of our times like Steve Vai, Sonny Stitt, Clark Terry, Jimmy Ponder, Lee Konitz, Slide Hampton and Lou Soloff. He counts Vinnie Colaiuta, Terry Bozzio, Tony Newton and Kenwood Dennard among his friends and peers who understand and <em>venerate</em> the extraordinary, high-concept rhythmic work he does.
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<div>But that is not all that makes him great — he is a wonderful friend; a hilarious re-teller of B-horror movies and old TV tropes; a skilled line artist of psychedelic drawings which <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pete.zeldman/photos_by" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">you may have seen on his Facebook feed</a>; a sensitive, enlightening teacher who has been giving back to the music community and up-and-coming young musicians for years; and he is also Cheryl’s loving husband and partner of 20 years living in England outside of London.
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<div>At first it looked like he was inoperable. He was put on a 3-month course of chemo to try to shrink the tumor in hopes of becoming operable. After 3-months, the tumor hadn’t shrunk, but his cancer markers had improved so much that the oncologist decided to go another three months to see if they could shrink the tumor enough to make him operable and thus remove this cancerous tumor.
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<div>His highly complex surgery was set for last December 21, 2021. The surgery, by the surgeon’s direct account, was reported to be a great success. They had gotten through to the margins of the cancer and eliminated everything they could see. As Pete convalesced from the brutality of the surgery (and learned what he would have to do for the rest of his life without a spleen), his doctors marveled at his miraculous recovery. He was told:
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<div>Sadly, at the very first 4-month scan in April of 2022, his oncologist was shocked and personally dismayed to see that the cancer was back and that it had metastasized to his liver and lungs. There was only one treatment available from the NHS — a new and more vicious course of chemo that is keeping him alive but is not something that will take him on a trajectory towards surgery or any other life-saving intervention. Pete has remained with us for the last 6 months via this barbaric chemotherapy protocol, which poisoned him and has landed him in the hospital with sepsis more than once.
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<div>There are cutting-edge approaches to cancer that seem like they are a far-off dream only realized some time in the future, but in fact, they are happening right now. These treatments are custom-designed for each individual patient not based on their type of cancer but on the patient’s own specific cancer cells. The treatment is derived from their own immune system T-cells, or if their T-cells are dormant, they are able to formulate a vaccine based on the patient’s mRNA. Labs in the United States that are working on these treatments are charging $500K TO $1M. But with some research into which labs/hospitals/universities are doing this type of work in Europe, we found one in Tübingen, Germany for far less. The costs is around €76k.
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<div>If everything falls into place the way we think it will, Pete will be 100% cancer free and will live his life on the path he was on before he became ill. All of his suffering will not have been for naught. He will continue to be with us.
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<div>The potential cure is the formulation of an anti-cancer peptide vaccine. Individualized tumor neoantigen-targeting peptide vaccination is a promising approach tested in clinical trials. It serves as an additional treatment to conventional anti-tumor therapy and may be continued as a long-term therapy option. The vaccine produced will train and activate the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. Generally speaking, the process is done in 2 steps:
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<div>Phase 2: An individual peptide vaccine is produced and administered over a period of 1 year. (Timeframe: 12-14 weeks to produce the individualized vaccines; then 4 vaccines given within 10-12 days; then 10 vaccinations given over the course the rest of the year. Blood is drawn at each visit to the Tübingen lab to monitor the efficacy of the treatment.
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<div>Pete is an exceptionally private person, so you may not know just how intense his personal hell and torture with this disease the last couple of years has been. He has been courageous and defiant! He desperately wants to live and continue teaching and sharing his many gifts. Of course, with any cutting edge treatment, insurance doesn’t apply. It’s up to the patient to pay on their own. It’s time for us to give what we can to help Pete finance this treatment.
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<div>Even though this is not nearly the cost of what it would be in the US, it’s still far more money than most anyone can bear alone. And so I’m asking you to give whatever you can - no matter how small - to help save Pete’s life so he can continue to give back as a teacher and mentor and live out his days naturally.
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<div>Thank you for whatever you can spare. No gift is too small and your words of encouragement and love are so important as well.
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<div>My beloved fiancée and manager of 20 years, Cassandra has been very strong and determined ever since her diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer in 2018. And while she has been maintaining an optimistic view with some degree of success, her most recent scan had indicated metastatic growth in the brain which has already required a very aggressive treatment plan resulting in some significant side effects.
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Help Cassandra (aka Cassie) beat cancer

<p dir="ltr">"Grief is the price we pay for love" ~Queen Elizabeth II Annette is finally free of the pain that held its tight grip on her for the past three years. We are truly comforted by that thought and so appreciate your words of love and prayers for strength. Life on earth goes on, the reality sometimes hitting us smack in the face as it has with Pete. The medical expenses and the day to day costs for her care have mounted up. Although your past generosity has helped immensely, and we are forever grateful, Pete is in a hole so deep, he's unable to afford even cremation. We are asking, dear friends, if you are able and so inclined, for one last donation, to help with Annette's burial expenses and give Pete a little respite. He has had to pass on many opportunities while being Annette's sole caregiver. Thanks for considering even a small amount.
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Annette's Burial Expenses

<img class="not-resizeable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/32597130_1535749404140903_r.jpeg" alt="" width="100%" />￼<img class="not-resizeable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/32597130_1535749468939661_r.jpeg" alt="" width="100%" />￼<img class="not-resizeable" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/32597130_1535748165565199_r.jpeg" alt="" width="100%" />￼My granddaughter Christy Ann, (7 months pregnant with twins), her 4 yr old daughter Paityn and father of the children Joseph Chandler were on their way home to California on August 29th.<br />They started their journey in Oklahoma in their van which broke down in Oklahoma City. <br />Instead of trying to fix the van which was not in too good of shape we decided taking the Greyhound bus would be safer.  So they boarded the bus to California.  Around noon on August 30 traveling on I40 a tractor trailer blew a tire and crossed the medium and crashed head on with the bus.<br />Christy Ann was knocked unconscious and when she awoke in the hospital she was alone and in severe pain.  Broken leg, smashed knee, broken elbow, separated pelvic and numerous cuts and lacerations.  Joseph has severe internal bruising and Paityn seems at this time to be physically okay.  We thank God every minute for her and her families life. Unfortunately Christy went into labor with the twins.  They are 2 months premature.  They are on life support and they were taken to another hospital.  Together weighing a little under 6 lbs.   <br />They have lost all their possessions. They have no money, clothes or a place to go as the babies will be in the hospital for at least 6 to 8 weeks.  Christy will need extensive surgery and rehabilitation therapy. <br />If you can possibly help please donate.  If unable to please keep them in your prayers.  Christy Ann has a long road ahead of her. Thanking you for your time and prayers.

Help with their journey home .

As most of you know,Annette was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016,she has undergone five surgeries and is now cancer free,your donations helped us so much and we were able to lower your crushing medical bills,for this,we are truly greatful.Annette still needs some reconstuctive surgery,we hope this will be the end.She has been through so much and wants to get on with her life,get back to work,just be happy again,but it will take some work...So I'm asking once again for your donation so we can pay down these bills and move forward..Thank you so much..Pete

Annettes Cancer surgery fund

Chef Dave Rozier is faced with homelessness due to a breakup ! Who among us hasn't had a bad breakup before?  Nobody deserves to be forced into homelessness from a split, especially our friend Dave who has been in this rough situation before. Because this is so sudden, he is not prepared to fight the good fight for a new place just yet. Please join together with his friends and fellow musicians to help him move into a new place and get his life back on track. Thanks!

Housing Fundraiser for Chef Dave

On Thursday, May 4th, at 1:00am, famed jazz drummer Tommy Campbell was viscously attacked near his apartment in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Two assailants attacked him in the street and left him with the tendons to both of his knees torn, a broken foot, and a severely sprained wrist. He was rushed to Bellevue hospital. Surgeons reattached the tendons to his knees and treated his other injuries. He was released today, May 13th, and is back at his apartment recovering from this heinous crime.<br /><br />We are reaching out to the music community and beyond asking for donations to help Tommy through this very difficult time. He has no health insurance and his limited funds have been decimated. Please help us to get Tommy back on his feet and playing drums again. His recovery will be very long and difficult, so lets come together and support this great musician in his darkest hour.<br /><br />If you would like to send a check or other please contact: <br /><strong>John Lee</strong>

Tommy Campbell Medical Fund

On February 1st, 2017, Albert Wing suffered a stroke which disabled the motor functions on the right side of his body from head to foot. After two weeks in the hospital, four more in a physical therapy facility, and now in a facility with no physical therapy available, he is still unable to stand or walk, and must continue to be under constant care and cannot yet go home. His medical expenses are mounting every day, yet he still requires months of physical therapy if there is to be any hope of recovery. We, his musical cohorts in Banned From Utopia, ask that you join us in helping Albert gather the funds necessary to cover his already overwhelming medical expenses and ongoing physical therapy expenses so that he can access the services he needs to recover from this debilitating, life changing, frightening experience, and return to being the productive, astonishingly creative musician he has been all his life. Imagine being a concert pianist and suddenly losing the use of your right hand. Your career, and your life, would be forever altered. That's what Albert is facing unless we pull together and lend a hand to a friend. Without ongoing physical therapy, regaining his prodiguous skills and the dignity of self-sufficiency will not be possible. Please, especially if you have ever seen or heard or been touched by Albert's music, help our friend with a donation, share this, spread the word, and know that you have made a difference in his life and future. Thank you!

Joel Taylor

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