Benefit For Pamela Raven Sunshine Rapinan this Sunday March 22nd

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Come to the "Help Raven Fly Again Benefit For Pamela Raven Sunshine Rapinan" this Sunday March 22nd from 7:30 - 2 am at the Columbia CIty Theater in Seattle!

Pamela "Raven" Rapinan most of you know as Bert's best friend and the sunshiney gal who runs the massage booth at Summer Flowmotion Summer Jams, Seattle Peace Concerts, Rusty Con and Norwescon. She may have even been your instructor at massage school.

Pamela has been on a medical leave with an as of yet undiagnosed illness since June and in the $100,000.00 worth of medical tests so far trying to figure out a diagnosis for her symptoms it was discovered she needed a full hip replacement as well. Pamela is healing well from the surgery in January and is as usual positive and our little ray of sunshine.

For those of you who know her, you know she is a bundle of energy, and quite frustrated that she cannot "do it all" and then some and it is all we can do to keep her in bed to heal! We decided have this benefit to help Pamela with all the bills she has accrued from not working since June and now the full hip replacement surgery. There will be a phenomenal music show with 5 friends of Pamela's bands, A MC you all may know from the cons as well " DJ DOOGIE".will be hosting the event and spinning old school tunes from 11-2am.

There is a raffle for an hour and 1/2 deep tissue therapeutic treatment massage by Pamela for $1 a ticket and you get a free one with each ticket purchased as well. There is a silent auction for many awesome items including many modalities of massage, hotel tickets, a piercing, health products, workshop classes,taro card reading and holiday window painting, art and more! ( Donations for silent auction still being gladly accepted!)

You may read all the information about the event, bands , descriptions of all auction items at this MySpace profile. Come play with us and support Pamela at a night of friends, love, laughter, and loud music!

Further information, including contact information will be added throughout the week.

"Save Our S00j!" on LiveJournal.

A new blog is up over on LiveJournal called "Save Our S00j!" that I think a lot of fen will be interested in.

This quote from the blog can describe the purpose of the blog much better than I can:

"s00j, a touring musician with no health insurance, recently ended up in the hospital for nearly a week, and was released on Christmas Eve to await test results and more tests. At this time, we still do not have a solid diagnosis. We've gone through all the scheduled tests, and now await a consultaion with the primary doctor. Need for imminent surgery has not yet been ruled out, but it's looking significantly less likely. Still, most hospitals charge thousands of dollars per day for inpatient hospital stays and, if it's necessary, we may be looking at a bill for tens of thousands of dollars more for surgery."

Take a look at the blog. Hopefully fandom can help her out.

Also take a look at s00j's (aka S.J. Tucker) own blog "spaces between notes"