Saturday, July 5, 2008

A Plea for Help From David Poole for Wessa Miller

Wessa Miller is the girl who gave Dale Earnhardt a lucky penny for the 1998 Daytona 500. The very Daytona 500 that Earnhardt won.

The specialness about that was that Wessa has spina bifida, a congenital condition in which the spinal cord is malformed and lacks skeletal and soft tissue coverings to protect it. She has no feeling from the waist down and uses a wheelchair.

She's now 16. Of late, her family has had a bit of a go at it.

Wessa's dad, Booker, had emergency open-heart surgery a couple of months ago and their lives became even more complicated and David Poole put out a post on Sirius Backstage asking for some help, for them.

David Poole wrote a story about them and is alerting us to their plight.
His post on Sirius is at siriusbackstage.com
His article is over at thatsracin.com.
A website has been set up to explain where you can send donations, by either cash or Paypal.
That website is: penniesforwessa.org

If you can, check it out.
As Sr fans thankful for the little bit of luck, or NASCAR fans just looking to help, check it out.
If you can, join me in lending a bit of a helping hand.

Thanks

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