MyLesPaul Pickups for Charity !!! Contest !!!

[coldsteal2]

awesome, the kids are in good hands with MLP

[loneguitar]

Bobbo, all I can say is thanks from the heart, St Jude has been one of my pet charities for some time now, and the work they do is fantastic, there's enough to worry about when a child's life is at stake and the people at St Jude help to calm some of the fears, with the costs of medicine and prescriptions skyrocketing St Judes is an Angel to those in need,

[BOBBO]

The prize pickups from the collaboration of Wolfetone & WB alone should have entries rolling in ! But the fact that this helps a great charity should prompt you even more !! Please help St Judes !! Send a donation today ...

[WBPickups]

I am proud to be a part of it myself. It is an honor to work with Wolfe on these pickups that I think will come out to be something special since the ingredients alone are remarkable. St. Judes is the charity that I felt truly happy to be a part of. Thank you to everyone!

1967 Wire

[MIDNIGHT]

rock on double dubyas!

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by WBPickups

I am proud to be a part of it myself. It is an honor to work with Wolfe on these pickups that I think will come out to be something special since the ingredients alone are remarkable. St. Judes is the charity that I felt truly happy to be a part of. Thank you to everyone!

I can't say how pleased I am to have Will Boggs in this charity contest and the fact that he's teamed up with another great guy in Wolfe Mcleod is going to make these pickups something truly special !! Please get your entries/donations in ASAP !! To be able to win these special pickups is worth the price of a few entries not to mention how much good this will do for some child out there !!!!!

[BOBBO]

[joshmax]

check going out... count me in for a $50 !

Seems firndly & informative here.... and A great cause!

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by joshmax

check going out... count me in for a $50 !

Seems firndly & informative here.... and A great cause!

Excellent Joshmax !! .. Glad to have you on the MLP !! Welcome !!

Members .. Please remember to put your MLP screename and the number of entries into the contest on your checks !! Thanks !!!!!!!!

[FLICKOFLASH]

clown dance

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by FLICKOFLASH

clown dance

Very cute !

[Lenny]

Hey bobbo , My donation went out today !

Hey Bobbo, do you have a way to paypal a donation, i'm in as well.

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by madialex

Hey Bobbo, do you have a way to paypal a donation, i'm in as well.

Hey Ben !! If youd like to Paypal your donation my Paypal address is bobbovisme@aol.com ... I was trying to reserve Paypal donations for those outside the USA but in order to get a bigger response I guess I will open it up to all !!! If you do donate by Paypal please add 5% to your donation as Paypal charges a 5 % fee for transactions !! I would prefer members send checks or MO's as it's easier to keep track of but I will do Paypal for anyone who really needs to doante that way !! As with check donations please include your MLP screename in the Paypal notes section , Along with the number of entries to be recieved !!
For those who didn't know Ben is the man behind Trutone Technologies Pickups !! And a member of the Tesla Coil winders group !! You will see some pickups from a pairing including his talents in the near future !!

[BOBBO]

Please donate to St Judes today !! Even if it's just the minimum of $10 !! Every little bit helps !!!! Not to mention you could win a great set of pickups !!

[FLICKOFLASH]

[FLICKOFLASH]

Loving God, your Son accepted our sufferings to teach us the virtue of patience in human illness. Hear our prayers for our sick sons and daughters. May all who suffer pain, illness, disease, and the frailty of old age realize that they have been chosen to be saints and know that they are joined to Christ in his suffering for the salvation of the world. Amen.

[BOBBO]

St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital
At a Glance


Not-for-profit pediatric research hospital located in Memphis, Tennessee
Founded in 1962 by entertainer Danny Thomas
Mission: To find cures for children with catastrophic illnesses through research and treatment
Has treated 19,000 children from 61 countries
Treats 4,300 patients yearly, mostly on a continuing outpatient basis as part of ongoing research programs
Faculty includes Peter Doherty, Ph.D., awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1996
Donated funds cover the treatment of uninsured and underinsured patients
Number of employees: 2,700 in clinical, research and core functions
Daily operating costs: $834,000
Funding sources: 70 percent from donors; 15 percent from federal grants; 15 percent from patient care revenues
Expansion plans: A five-year, $1 billion expansion will more than double the campus size and bolster the hospital’s research efforts

[FLICKOFLASH]

[BOBBO]

Thank you for your donation ... NorCal Git r !! ..... Bryan of BG pups has donated to the charity but would like to donate his entries into the contest to a worthy MLP member ! Since i'm the guy running this contest one of the perks is that I will be deciding who recieves those entries !! I will award them to the member who I feel deserves them most !

Hey Bobbo, paypal donation sent. Wish I could do more but right now things are tight......

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by madialex

Hey Bobbo, paypal donation sent. Wish I could do more but right now things are tight......

Thank You for your donation Madialex !! ... It's not the size of the donation it's the thought !! If every person on this forum donated the minimum $10 !! That would be $20,000 !!!!! That helps an awful lot of children in need !!


Keep the donations coming people !!

Thanks Bobbo ...

[BOBBO]

Members , I have opened up Paypal donation to everyone !!! I would prefer the donation by check or money order but in an effort to raise more money for St Judes I will take Paypal from anyone !!! Please add 5% to your donation to cover Paypal fees ! As with donating by check please include your MLP screename in the notes section of your Paypal donation as well as the number of contest entries !!


Paypal address is ... bobbovisme@aol.com


Paypal .. https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...-general&nav=0

[BOBBO]

Originally Posted by BOBBO

Thank you for your donation ... NorCal Git r !! ..... Bryan of BG pups has donated to the charity but would like to donate his entries into the contest to a worthy MLP member ! Since i'm the guy running this contest one of the perks is that I will be deciding who recieves those entries !! I will award them to the member who I feel deserves them most !

After a conversation with Flick .. The members recieving the entries donated by NorCal Git r alias BG pickups are ....... M.T. Pockets , 13yguitarman & Slideboy !!! Congrat's guys !!! Each will recieve one entry into the contest !! Good Luck !!!!

[Cantu]

Originally Posted by BOBBO

Thank you for your donation ... NorCal Git r !! ..... Bryan of BG pups has donated to the charity but would like to donate his entries into the contest to a worthy MLP member ! Since i'm the guy running this contest one of the perks is that I will be deciding who recieves those entries !! I will award them to the member who I feel deserves them most !

Salute to Bryan!!!!!

[Anchorman]

Just threw in my $20 AUD

It's a great cause and a collaboration between these two great pickup makers just makes my head spin. (I have purchased from both guys)

[FLICKOFLASH]

Twelve-year-old Stephan Boehme inspires others through his illness

It’s a hot, midsummer day—one most 12-year-old boys spend on a baseball diamond or swimming with friends. Instead, Stephan Boehme sits in the Solid Tumor Clinic at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with his mother, Patty Gutiérrez. He could be complaining, but he’s preoccupied with TV shows, frogs and bears.

“Did you watch CSI last night?” he asks a St. Jude staff member, in reference to the series set in Florida, his home state.

Unsatisfied with the “no” answer he receives, Stephan explains the show’s plot before quickly moving to another subject. As he talks, he hangs onto his stuffed bear Rocky, who accompanies him everywhere. Adorned with a bracelet that bears the phrase “Go Steph Go,” Rocky is as soft and cuddly as the day he was purchased nine years ago.

Stephan expresses concern over a few faded patches on Rocky’s paws, but his mother reassures him the bear is fine.

“That’s the way Stephan is,” Patty says. “He worries about everybody.”
First signs

On the evening of January 5, 2007, it was time to worry about Stephan. He suddenly felt pains in his abdomen during a trip to the movies with his mother, his fraternal twin brother, Christian, and his younger sister, Ivanna.

“I was feeling really weird, but I didn’t want to say anything because I wanted to watch the movie,” he says.

It didn’t take long for Patty to notice her son sweating as he limped down the stairs of the theater. She immediately took Stephan to a local hospital.

Hours later, doctors found a mass in Stephan’s stomach and checked him into the hospital for more tests. After five or six days, doctors still could not identify the tumor. Patty phoned her oldest brother, Juan José Gutiérrez. “I understood that his only opportunity to live was if he flew to Memphis and put his life in the St. Jude doctors’ hands,” says Juan José, who helped Stephan obtain a physician’s referral to St. Jude.

Within 24 hours of his arrival at St. Jude, Stephan was found to have desmoplastic small round cell tumor, a rare, aggressive cancer with a low survival rate.
Charitable family

Stephan’s uncle was no stranger to childhood cancer or to St. Jude. Juan José is president and CEO of Pollo Campero, which helps raise nearly $2 million annually for pediatric cancer research and treatment in Guatemala.

A chicken restaurant chain with more than 200 locations in seven Latin American nations as well as the United States, China, Indonesia and Spain, Pollo Campero is the primary corporate sponsor of the St. Jude International Outreach Program in Guatemala.

With Pollo Campero’s support, St. Jude helped establish a pediatric cancer facility in Guatemala’s lone public hospital, Unidad Nacional de Oncologia Pediátrica.

This charitable groundwork was laid long before Juan José learned that his nephew had cancer. Ironically, Juan José was already scheduled to present a donation check to the cancer treatment program when Stephan first felt pains in his abdomen. Juan José says Stephan’s cancer has helped the family gain a new appreciation of their charitable work and of the St. Jude mission.

“His diagnosis touched the whole family,” Juan José says. “We understand from the bottom of our hearts what this really means.”
Awesome kid

Doctors at St. Jude see one or two cases each year of desmoplastic small round cell tumor, which predominantly develops in young males. According to Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, of St. Jude Oncology, the cancer is usually advanced by the time it is diagnosed, as it was in Stephan’s case.

“The current approach that we are using is very intensive chemotherapy,” Rodriguez-Galindo says. “We escalate chemotherapy and try to remove as much of the tumor as possible.”

Rodriguez-Galindo and Patty have talked to Stephan from the beginning about his cancer, his treatment and his prognosis.

“Stephan asks me a lot about his cancer, and he knows everything about it. He knows the big, long name. He knows it was 20 percent survival rate when we came, and that now it’s maybe 30 percent,” Patty says.

Stephan, who has received nine rounds of chemotherapy, has responded well to treatment. In April, he underwent successful surgery to remove several abdominal tumors, one of which was nearly 5 inches in diameter. Chemotherapy is scheduled to continue until he undergoes a bone marrow transplant later this year. His bone marrow was harvested in early March for the procedure.

“He is always ready for chemo. I’ve never heard him complain about anything—not about pain, about not feeling well or about being unhappy,” Rodriguez-Galindo says. “He always says, ‘Awesome.’ Even after his surgery, when he could barely breathe, he would say that.”

Occasionally, however, Patty wishes Stephan would be less stoic.

“Sometimes, I think, ‘Stephan, complain. I need you to cry,’” Patty says. “I have to push him to react because he doesn’t want me to be sad or upset.”
A different person

Before his diagnosis, Stephan spent most of his time listening to his favorite band, Linkin Park; cheering the Miami Heat NBA team; or goofing off with his siblings and their miniature Schnauzer, Saskia. He still loves those things, but the cancer, chemotherapy and monthly visits to St. Jude have helped him grow into a more sensitive, intuitive person, according to his mom and uncle.

“He is teaching us how to live, and we have all experienced his transformation,” Juan José says. “His understanding of life is 100 percent different than it was in the past.”

It’s not surprising to hear Stephan dispensing cheerful guidance to other St. Jude children to ease their concerns. His inquisitive and playful nature is revealed whether he’s joking with Rodriguez-Galindo about his latest haircut or watching wild animals run across the TV screen in his hospital room.

“I would imagine it is quite easy for a near teenager to be upset and angry at what he has to endure, but not Stephan,” says one of his favorite nurses at St. Jude, Candice Duffy. “He has chosen to look at his journey through a different set of eyes. He remains upbeat, drawing strength from his family, and most importantly, his faith.”

Stephan’s journey has brought inspiration to both friends and strangers. Two weeks after his surgery, he was greeted with applause and warm support as he stepped out of a car at a fundraising run in his home town. Stephan took the first lap around the park along with a host of cancer survivors, who were eager to take photos with him.

And there’s the story of two of his classmates, who were moved enough by Stephan to begin attending church again.

“They found out I had cancer, and now they’re going to church every Sunday, and all the kids are praying,” Stephan says of his sixth-grade classmates. “I feel really good that I’m able to help change people.”
Guest of honor

It didn’t take long for others to realize how special Stephan was, as well. He and his family attended the fifth annual FedEx/St. Jude Angels and Stars Gala earlier this year. Stephan was the guest of honor at the event, which was chaired by entertainer Daisy Fuentes. He danced with Fuentes, won the silent auction prize of a basketball signed by the 2006 NBA champion Miami Heat, and played the drums on stage.

“Stephan was the star of the night, and all of the attention was for him,” Patty says. “Everybody was in shock. They couldn’t believe he was playing the drums.”

By the end of the night, Stephan sympathized with celebrities who are hounded by the paparazzi, but he wasn’t eluding any flash bulbs.

“It was really cool because I felt famous,” Stephan says. “People came up to me and asked for pictures. I didn’t want to say no because that would be rude.”
Graduation day

Few days will be as memorable as the one in early June when Stephan graduated from fifth grade alongside Christian. Stephan, an honor roll student since first grade, and Patty both arrived at the ceremony thinking he would not graduate because he had missed so much school during treatment.

Stephan sat with his classmates and even wore the Class of 2007 T-shirt, but he was nervous because he thought he was not going to receive a diploma. He awoke that morning unsure if his blood counts were high enough to allow him to attend, but he was assured midday that he could make the trip.

What happened next sent a wave of thunderous applause through the crowd.

“Our surprise was incredible when the principal called, ‘Stephan Boehme Gutiérrez.’ The entire school got up…parents started to applaud, and everyone was stomping their feet in joy,” Patty wrote in a journal. “I got goose bumps all over my body, and tears were hard to hold. It was a memorable moment, and my angel, who wanted to cry, was containing himself with a great smile that I will never forget.”

While Stephan and his family understand his prognosis, it has not affected their resolve, their faith or their ability to enjoy each day together. He understands that no one is guaranteed tomorrow, so he enjoys the daily nuances of life.

Stephan loves Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade. He drives his mom crazy by banging a pretend drum during car rides. He likes to tell embarrassing stories about his younger sister. And he just happens to make monthly visits to St. Jude.

“The people here are really nice,” Stephan says of the hospital.

Patty sometimes refers to herself and her children as the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four know there will be tough days ahead, but this realization helps make the good times more special.

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[BOBBO]

Thank you for your donation ... Anchorman !!

[FLICKOFLASH]

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[BOBBO]

Members ... Not only is your donation going to a very worthy charity !!! Just think how amazing and rare the pickups made by the talents of Wolfetone and WB combined will be and get yourself an entry into this contest !!!