FYI

I am updating a couple small things here and there on the site. I am not giving personal updates on my own situation, not on this blog anyway. Things are not going well and I will leave it at that.

The updates I am doing include a major project I began last year and have people around the country involved in as well. I am taking a chance providing an email on this site because of this project. That said, I am sending a message to the ONE person who completely and totally screwed up this blog for all of my readers, including the producers at the Discovery Health.

That one person knows who she is: you believe you are so full of knowledge yet are an incredible idiot, dispensing downright DANGEROUS information to newly diagnosed patients. I spent an ungodly amount of time picking up the pieces of what you did to other people. As I continued to worsen my health would no longer permit me to keep up with cleaning up after you. Add that to dealing with your incessant messages, comments, notes I asked you for THREE years to STOP writing. You obviously do not understand the meaning of STALKER. I will make it clear one last time. You know who you are. Do not even THINK of contacting me again under any circumstances. You know very well how easy it is for me to get authorities involved should you choose to make a stupid move and contact me in ANY way, shape, or form.

Moving on. Everybody else, please ignore all that. It is only ONE person who screwed things up. Please continue to take advantage of the links at the side of the page. The links are excellent; just because the blog is not being updated doesn't mean the links aren't. They are wonderful links, reliable and trustworthy. Use them! Also, feel free to contact me if you need a cap because of brain surgery, or need to locate a neurosurgeon because you are newly diagnosed.

Please allow me a couple days to get back in touch. With a couple dozen major seizures each and every day I don't get a whole lot done and need some time to get back to you. I have no sense of time whatsoever since I spend most of my days unaware of what the heck is going on anyway so please be patient with me.

Are you having brain surgery? Need a cap? Want to help?

I recently spoke with my two major online crochet groups regarding the great need for caps for brain surgery patients. I discussed how there are so many groups that make chemo caps for cancer centers but when facing my first brain surgery I could only find one charity group that was willing to provide me with a cap.

So I decided to take action. I let the online groups know of this need. I was met with a tremendous response of both sudden understanding and the wish to help.

I wrote to nearly three dozen neurosurgical departments around the United States--and beyond--and now have some contacts and agreements with them to provide their brain surgery patients with free crocheted caps (and knitted and sewed for those who do those kind as well).

Since this blog is so well-known in the brain surgery community (and beyond, having been contacted by local and national media after them finding it), I would like to take advantage of its reputation.

If you are facing an upcoming brain surgery and are in need of a cap or two, please contact me. You can let me know via a comment left at this blog with your address (I will NOT publish the comment so don't worry about privacy of personal information). Also let me know your age and approximate cap size (small, medium, or large for your age). This helps let me know if I should send a cap made for a small, medium, or large child or adult. I also of course will provide for infants and toddlers.

If you are a crafter and wish to join in, feel free to contact me and I will respond with the appropriate information. I can provide you with the neurosurgery facilities to send caps to, or you can send caps for my home supply from which I send caps directly to patients who contact me.

I will never charge patients postage, but if any crafters or anyone else wishes to help defray this cost it would be greatly appreciated.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

keesha(underscore)b(at)yahoo(dot)com