Troy community puts heads, hearts together for donation

To the Editor:

Troy has been my family's home for the past 13 years. I have witnessed the community's kindness and generosity time and time again.

This year just in time for Christmas a little bit came our way. October 12th my husband Scott was hospitalized in Spokane with ARDS, a serious lung infection that kept him in a medically induced coma for 6 weeks. His stomach had burst and the bile had seeped into his pleural sack around his lungs temporarily paralyzing them.

Our two children kept a stiff upper lip and continued attending school between weekend visits. I had to take a medical leave from work and spent many nights at hotels near the hospital.

On a recent trip back home, I was presented with a couple of donations. The Boy Scouts had raised $109 from their Christmas Craft Bazaar for our family. And Jody Jones, the organizer of a softball-athon presented me with a check for $1,500 to help with medical expenses, and Christmas.

The softball-athon placed the teenagers against the adults on the first snowy weekend of the winter. Although I'm not sure who won, that wasn't the point at all. They ran, slipped, and sledded from base to base in the cold for over two hours.

In only 6 days the community had put their heads and hearts together to raise this incredible donation.

A heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone involved! We would have loved to participate had the circumstances been different.

Sandi Sullivan