**Updated 08/29/20** News from Wrabbit2000..

[Sol]

Hey everyone,

For those of you who know Wrabbit2000 (he is one of the early founders of Rogue Nation and has been a Moderator on ATS), please read this very carefully.





Steve has put a Facebook post up a few days ago and I talked with him a little earlier on to get his permission to copy it here.

Here is the Facebook post from Steve:

Dear Friends and Family,

Catherine Arringdale, my wife of 28 years and more, recently underwent surgery in the hospital to remove infected tissue resulting from calcium deposits in Dialysis treatment. The surgery was not successful. What it did do is leave her with large open surgical wounds they say her system cannot heal from.
Catherine has been sent home to be with family here for home Hospice care. She is being kept very comfortable on Morphine and other drugs reserved for palliative care. The doctors have not put any time on her conditions or said 'you have xx days, weeks or months', but all curative or healing oriented care has ceased, including dialysis.

This is a route she chose, after being cancelled on a surgery that was supposed to finish the first one's efforts. She was deemed a poor candidate for a positive outcome moments before she would have gone into pre-op. After that, she has been told there is simply nothing they can do now and she could be home or she could be in the hospital....but the care wouldn't change the end result. This is why she chose to simply come home.

I wish I could say we were hanging in there and making it through...but that isn't accurate. People who know us are aware of the year or more of crisis runs to the hospital every couple weeks, my own acute respiratory failure and very near death in April, as well as her conditions worsening since then.  Things got missed that the other thought was being covered, and we're going into foreclosure on a house we'd paid down to $40,000...probably at or around the same time as Catherine's condition becomes pronounced with Hospice. So, I don't know how much longer I'll be able to come online. When it rains, it pours, and this is a monsoon of rather epic scale.

I had anticipated a couple people being here to help with what needs done and seeing it got there, but for different reasons, they became unavailable and for someone who usually knows just what to do...I have no clue where to even start.... You can never prepare for this sort of loss, especially in slow motion this way....but facing it alone is the hardest part I never imagined would come to pass.

There is one thing I may ask...... Is there anyone in this area possibly interested in some high end electronics and good furniture? A tube radio, original parts, still fully functional from 1939 with one family ownership (stand up console)? I don't ask for handouts and I don't really know how to ask for help, as such, but after the past year we don't even have reserves left for services and such, when the time comes. I just know I have a lot I can sell between electronics and reloading, and at this point...pretty much all we own is up for discussion. Drop me a note if interested in helping in that way.

I'll keep everyone updated as there is something to update. We have not given up, even if medicine has, and are trying to remain positive while sure a miracle will come in healing those wounds. It has to...Right?

Steve & Cathy

Link to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donate/305187447298994



Thoughts and Prayers for all of them is an urgent need right now, but it doesn't stop there..



Now, Steve has put a Facebook Donate feature on Facebook that would help cover for memorials.

I understand that not everyone can donate and not everyone is on Facebook either.

So...I asked Steve permission for members (who would wish to) who'd like to donate but do not know how, to donate through the Rogue Nation Donate button - at the bottom of the first page - and we will transfer him the funds.

He is seeking roughly $3500 and has already raised close to $500. Even a $1.00 more would help him out.

Thank you for reading, thank you for the prayers, thank you for those who can donate. For those of you who donate through our donate button here on RN, please leave a comment on this thread with just the word "Donated" so that we know a donation has been done. No need to mention any amount. Thank you.

Sincerely,


Sol ~ for the Admins & Staff of RN. / For Wrabbit2000.