Back in the day, while frequenting the mommy message boards (EEEVILLL!), I forged relationships with quite a few women. It’s difficult not to get sucked into other people’s lives and feel for them, care about them, think about them - like I’ve very much done since joining the blogworld.

Then, in an instant, things changed. I don’t know really what happened. I don’t know if I was taken advantage of, conned - whatever. A person I thought of as a friend was in a very tight spot and, out of the goodness of my heart, I opted to help her. Without ever meeting this person, I wired her 250 dollars (Canadian - which was MUCH less at the time - probably about 350US) to get herself, her little boy and infant twin girls out of an abusive home, and a tiny bit of a start, to move from Chicago back to Cali.

There were rumors about her flying all over the message boards about her being a con, taking gifts and purchases from caring board members and selling them on E-bay for cash. Being the kind hearted person that I am *coughBULLSHITcough* I believed that, yes, she was selling everything trying to raise enough money to get out of the hell she was living in. Without knowing that I had contributed a great deal of money to her cause, people jumped on me for taking her side while all I was doing was trying to enlighten them on the other side. (Sometimes that doesn’t alway work - ask my dear friend Miss Britt.)

Inevitably, the administrator took it upon herself to ban said person, who was a member for well over four years, without giving her a chance to defend herself - without giving her the benefit of the doubt. I received a phone call from said person frantic and in tears after reading what people were saying about her, without the ability to fight back.

Though, I never go the money back from her, as she promised. I know that she did indeed get out of that abusive relationship and back to California - so maybe what I did was right. I don’t think I’ll ever know. but, since then I’ve been very leery about helping people I’ve only met online.

Since joining the blog community I vowed to keep my money to myself and offer only emotional support to people that I “meet”.

Why am I telling you all this?

Something happened that changed my mind. I contributed, financially, to someone’s cause.

A fellow blogger is in the midst of her third battle with ovarian cancer. She’s now fighting for her life based on past ‘treatments’ (I say ‘treatments’ because you have to read her stories about her previous bout with this awful cancer).

She needs our help. Her family needs our help.

Right now, Miss Anne is collecting donations and holding a raffle to help Lisa. Anything you can spare to help this wonderful lady, mother, fellow blogger, would be greatly appreciated. If you can’t help financially, it’s completely understood, but you can still help by putting in your sidebar, one of the buttons created by fellow bloggers (which are on Miss Anne’s site).