Extreme Makeover

[Guest guest]

Good morning all!

I am gonna go out on a limb and make a total you know what of myself

here. After several of you had the wonderful idea of submitting our

family for extreme makeover...everyone realized that the application

process was something only I could fill out. Like probably every

other family who has been on the show....the only way to be submitted

is for the family to fill out the info because it is so personal that

no one else could do it....several parts of it require the homeowners

signiture....financial information and mcuh more....very very detailed

information. Because I really want to see this happen....I figured

why not and filled it out. I wrote a huge letter to those of you who

wanted to take part of this and I accidentally erased it....I really

don't want to write it again. I could go on and on about how the

house is falling apart....how the kids toy box is trash bags....how we

sit on the floor to eat....etc....but this would be soooooo great and

do beleive that we deserve it and the veritable tables could be turned.

TO finish the application, I need the video footage that they want of

our family and home.....and there is a space where they need the name

and contact information for one person...maybe one person who

represents the group here.....and I need letters of support. I feel

like I am begging.....I feel guilty....that good old catholic guilt

complex that my mother engrained into me.....but I have eaten the

veritable crow before to do whatever it takes to take care of my

family.

I want my kids to have a home where they can play....read....I want to

spend time with my kids instead of finxing the house non stop....I

want to have family dinner at a dinner table....I want a sofa to sleep

on at night when I cannot sleep because I am feeling so horrible for

the kids......I want a refrigerator that works so I don't lose all of

our medicine....something I was informed yesterday would not be

replaced if it was destroyed because the refridgerator quit working.

You know what I mean? If just one part of our struggle could go away

and the prison of the walls of our home could be a place where we can

heal and be a family....I will do anything.

SO anyone out there that wants to take responsiblity for the contact

pwerson....and anyone who wants to e-mail me a letter of support.....I

would be eternally grateful. This is something that would be

fantastic not only for our family....but for the attentions PIDers

would receive on a National level. Our family is one of few where the

whole bunch of us (except my husband) has PID and we need all the help

we can get.....despite the fact that we may look foolish rallying for

support.

Thanks everyone!

Terri Cerda (mom, 46; Molly, 6 and Maggie 4 CVID with B and T cell

disorders, specific antibody disorder)