I am pleading for your help.

Many of you have received emails about Randy Abrahamson's situation.
There are a few new developments and an new website for you to see.
Please take a moment to read about the situation and feel free to send
this to anyone you know that can help. Thank you, to those of you that
have agreed to put this on your websites.

Quick history:

Randy Abrahamson (an RMC Team rider) was severely injured in a motocross
accident in 2005 at Longview Motocross track. Randy's been in and out of
the hospital for the last 4+ years. Children's hospital was told Randy's
family there is nothing more they can do, he will have to deal with
tubes hanging out of his body and constant trips to the Hospital for the
rest of his life.

The Mayo Clinic, in Rochester Minnesota, has said they may be able to
help. Randy was unable to attend his first appointment in November
because of a lack of money. They have a chance again on Jan 3rd. We
need to step up and get him to this appointment. I am personally asking
that each of you to donate as much as you feel you can,
$5...$10..$100... Put yourself in this situation, put your kids in this
situation! Personally, I can't even rap my brain around how difficult
this must be for Randy and his family.

Please visit Randy's web page, click the "Donate" button TODAY! Randy
must have the money together by Christmas!

http://hopeforrandy.blogspot.com/

Joe Jones Renton Motorcyles
425.226.4320 / 800.460.6451
jjones@rentonmotorcycles.com
3701 East Valley Road, Renton, WA, 98057

www.rentonmotorcycles.com

How much money do they need to raise to get the kid to the mayo clinic?

I went to Randy's web site (which took a while to load) and couldn't find an easy way to make a contribution so I think I'll head down to RMC (6 minutes) at lunch and look up Joe.

Appreciate the post EW

We need to raise $2000.
I really feel thats an easy amount to earn.
Why dont we have a collection at the next Monroe arenacross.
Im putting in $50.

It's not much but I will send $25 today hopefully it will all add up and get Randy fixed up.

Ya'll did it! The WA motorsports community really stepped up and got
Randy to his appointment. Ya'll should feel proud...



Joe Jones -RMC





Hello Everyone,



Update on Randy's trip to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. We arrived on
Saturday night and his first appointment was on Monday morning at 7 a.m.
They started with blood tests and then in the afternoon they did an
extensive ultrasound on his stomach and liver. They gave us an
itinerary for Tuesday starting with a study on the bile duct system
where they put die into the tube that goes to his liver. When they got
that test done they ended up changing the tube in his liver, it was due
to be changed. When they completed all of that they wheeled him into
the next tests which were and MRI and an MRCP which gave them a better
picture of the liver and the bile duct system. Late Tuesday afternoon
we met with one of the doctors and she informed us that the test results
hadn't come back yet so we would be meeting with the surgeon the next
day.

Wednesday afternoon we met with the first doctor who was not the surgeon
but another doctor that worked with the surgeon. He told us that the
surgeon would be in shortly and that he would answer any questions we
had. He brought up the pictures of Randy's liver and showed us a little
of what was going on and then told us that the surgeon told him that
there would be no problem in fixing Randy's liver for him. Randy's eyes
welled up with tears as the doctor walked out of the room. He was
looking up at the ceiling and I asked if he was ok, he broke out crying
saying he was thinking of all the things that he'll be able to do again
once they get him fixed. He was so excited that finally after all this
time someone will be able to help him.

The doctors were surprised about the doctors here in Washington that
they hadn't done something to help Randy before this. The surgeon came
and talked to us and told us that he doesn't have a problem fixing
Randy's liver and that it should have been done a long time ago. He
said that he hasn't had a case like Randy's but he knows the liver so
well that he has no question that once they get in there they will be
able to determine if they can connect the bowel to the leaking area and
that would work or if the right side of the liver is too damaged that
he'll just take the right side out and he'll be fine.

These doctors were absolutely wonderful and there was no question that
they know what they are doing. They told us we could schedule the
surgery right away but we were unable to because we had other
obligations here at home and weren't expecting them to do something so
quick.

We will end up having to be there for 2-3 weeks depending on how
extensive the surgery ends up being so we're going to try and get it
scheduled as soon as we are able to.

We will make sure to keep everyone posted as soon as we know when we can
get back there for the surgery.



I also post information on Riderdown.org under Randy Abrahamson if you
are interested.

Thank-you everyone,

Take care and we'll talk to you soon!

Mickie and Randy Abrahamson

WOW! I got teary eyed just reading that! So awesome to hear good news...

That is great news!! Good luck with the surgery Randy.

Thats great. One big family!!

Thank you Jesus!

Wow thats some really great news right there.. You must be one tough kid Randy good job!