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Please help me buy a Braille Note, and you'll be giving me the world at my fingertips

  • You helped me make it!

      16 April 2016

    Everybody! I simply can't believe it but, in less than one and a half days, I've reached (actually surpassed) my target. And it isn't the fact that everyone has been so incredibly generous that has me speechless and just so grateful, but the fact that so many people think that I'm worth their time and resources. It's moments like this that make you realise that the world is full of love and kindness, not the ugliness and terror that the news media would have us believe. I'm just so humbled to know that I'm surrounded by such amazing, giving people - my family, my friends, and people who've never even met me but donated anyway. Thank you seems such an inadequate thing to say to express my gratitude, but that's all I have. And, oh my goodness, I'm just so looking forward to getting a new Braille Note and being able to read a book again. I haven't been able to read a book, research article, or Scrabble word list for 61 days now, and I've been getting increasingly cranky as a result... just ask my kids. Every couple of days my youngest child, Cordelia, asks "When you get your 'puter Mummy?" well, now I can tell her "Just as soon as the 'puter man can deliver it!" Thank you again and... wow, you guys are AWESOME!

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  • Such incredible generosity!!!

      15 April 2016

    I just wanted to say how astonished and over-awed I am at the generosity that friends, family, and complete strangers have shown me so far. In all honesty, I thought that I'd bee lucky (and quite grateful) to get $500, butt instead, my page has not even been up for 12 hours yet and I've surpassed the halfway point already. The last time I looked, 29 people had donated $1520, with some individual donors giving as much as $250 and $200. But, regardless of whether you've given lots or a little, I really want to thank you all so much! It isn't just the amazing amount that people have already given me that humbles me, it's the fact that people have left such lovely and encouraging comments. I feel a little teary, and a lot ecstatic over your response to my appeal. I'm such a lucky, lucky person to have people like you in my life.

    Olivia

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    • 16/04/2016 by Natasha Macaulay

      Hey Olivia,

      Wow Congrats. I recently used give a little and I missed the small print that the money will be held for a month, then put into your account. This is how they make their money, which is fair enough.

      I am hoping you can get the Braille note on layby or credit card now. All the very best.

      Natasha