I realize this thread wont get much attention in this catagory, but I follow rules. Please email to people you think might be interested or pass along. Thanks so much! Ends June 18, 2004
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We are auctioning this beautiful white wedding gown to raise money due to my wife's terminal Lymphoma. Size 8 with long sleeves and 6 ft train. She wore it only once, of course, not counting trying it on. LOL. Please excuse me as I am the husband/computer guy and know little about clothing or wedding dresses. Please ask questions as I wouldn't know what to include in the description. Originally $1400. Has little buttonsor something to pin the train up during the reception (as in 6th picture)
We decided to sell this after seeing the guy on ebay recently sell his wife's dress(which he modeled) and getting $2000-$3000 for it. We figured we can get something for our dress. I don't want to model the dress personally, but will if it gets higher bids, haha. Email if you are interested and I will email the pics, but bid first!
Hoping to appeal to your emotions and sympathy
, I will tell our story. She was diagnosed with Hogkins Lymphoma in Sept 2003 and after 8 months of chemo, bone marrow procedures and stem cell treatments, she was told she has less than 1% chance of survival. While cure rates of very high for this type of cancer, obviously they are not 100%. She decided to stop treatment and live her remaining time feeling good and making good memories for me and her to 2 young sons. We would like to use the proceeds from this sell to take the boys on a nice vacation, but realistically, the money will slip away to various bills and other unknown places our money goes like the missing socks. I hope this isnt too sappy, but I am very discouraged by many events that have transpired in the last year.
She is an Registered Nurse and Paramedic and worked at a local hospital in a small town which has made this ordeal much more difficult than it needed for one of it's life long residents. The reason I am telling this is to help keep others from going through what we have. While on her Family Medical Leave, her life insurance policy was cancelled due to the fine print, which reads she had to work a minimum of 30 hours a week to be eligible. Whats the point of having these benefits, you ask? I don't know. Accidental death, I suppose. After a missed diagnosis, she opted to go to a cancer center and after diagnosis enrolled in a clinical trial the treatment center 3 hours away. Sounds good as it saved us alot of money in the short run, but when it failed to kick the cancer, the treating center refused to release any medical records of her having cancer because of strict clinical trial parameters and forms she signed when enrolling resulting in her long term disabilitybeing denied at her place of employment which usually kick in after the FML is used up. Of course her medical insurance was cancelled after her FML ran out because of the minimum 30 hours a week crap. So we can't even afford to have her re-tested to determine the diagnosis to qualify for the long term disability.
I'm not trying to turn this auction into a protest or rant, but wouldn't feel right if I didnt warn people to read the fine print on their benefits package and be more prepared, even when you think you have your bases covered. It's just very unfortuate.
We also will be selling 2 more informal dresses and some Triumph auto parts, so look for my other auctions soon. Please email with any questions and picture requests and I will consult the expert and get back to you.
Thanks you for any and all bids, Scott