Please, Help fund this project in NERVEmber! 2012
Aunt Barby Hurts – A Children’s Book about Chronic Pain
A full-color story book that will improve the daily lives of families that deal with the struggles associated with Chronic Pain.
To understand the importance of this book, Watch the Video!
Go to http://www.indiegogo.com/aunt-barby-hurts to make a contribution to this great project.
Please make a contribution no matter how small, every dollar helps us reach the goal. This is a unique and worthy project to help our young population understand how to interact with those who experience some kind of chronic pain. Contributions can be as small as $1.00 and gifts will be given to the higher donations starting at only $10.00. Click on the image and see what its all about.
What we’re hoping to do, with your help, is create a children’s story book that deals with the topic of chronic pain. It will be a fully illustrated story; not merely an instructional handbook. And the goals of the book will be to introduce the idea of chronic pain, comfort children who know someone with chronic pain, and to help them learn ways of playing with, showing affection for and caring for that person.
What?
What we’re hoping to do, with your help, is create a children’s story book that deals with the topic of chronic pain. It will be a fully illustrated story; not merely an instructional handbook. And the goals of the book will be to introduce the idea of chronic pain, comfort children who know someone with chronic pain, and to help them learn ways of playing with, showing affection for and caring for that person.
Why?
I was watching my son and his cousins interacting with their aunt Barby, who suffers with chronic pain. It was difficult for them to understand why they couldn’t give her hugs, or make loud noises. Looking at her, she doesn’t seem hurt; she doesn’t have a cast or even a band-aid. Chronic pain is often invisible, which makes it difficult for children to understand.
They would forget and sometimes play too rough with her. Sometimes that would hurt her and she would cry out; then they would feel guilty, as if they are the one that caused her to be in pain. They even started to think the best thing was to leave her alone and play somewhere out of her way. But Barby wanted to play with them, talk with them and show them how much she loved them.
Seeing this, I wondered how this might be playing out in other homes with family members who suffer from chronic pain. Over 116 million people in America have chronic pain. I thought there must be a good way to teach the children in these families all about it, how to help the family member cope, and how to play and have a great time with them: to have a normal full relationship. In talking with Barby, we agreed that a children’s story book would be the best way of dealing with this type of need.
How?
Tim and Barby will work together to create an engaging story that directly addresses many of the daily challenges of living with Chronic pain and presents them to children in a gentle and natural way. Once the story is complete, Tim will develop the artwork to bring the story to life. Tim is a fully digital artist, who works in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.
After the story and art are complete, they will be laid out for high-quality printing as well as developed into a digital app for phones and tablets.
November is “NERVEmber!”
We’d like to dedicate this project in honor of NERVEmber 2012, the month for Neuropathy Awareness.
Tim Ingle- Co Author and Illustrator
Barby Ingle- Co Author
Fixed Funding campaign
This campaign will only receive funds if at least $13,999 is raised by Fri Nov 30 at 11:59PM PT.
It’s crucial that this project receives it’s funding by the deadline in order to proceed.
Most people don’t realize how far a dollar with go. If all of my friends, Barby Ingle’s friends, the Power of Pain Foundation’s friends, supporter’s of the Power of Pain Foundation, supporters of chronic pain and RSD/CRPS awareness can give a gift of $2 we could reach our goal.
I say “we” and “our’ because this project has the potential of changing lives. Making happier lives. Teaching children how to interact with those of us in pain and helping us care for them while hurting.
If you are a group, an organization, a business, please start a donation jar and donate no later than November 30th.
Please go to http://www.indiegogo.com/aunt-barby-hurts
I gave, will you give with me?
It all starts with us!
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