This morning I received an email from Nikki, a nursing student from West Virginia, with information about a child’s Christmas wish that I though we might be able to help come true on some small level.
According to Nikki, Max, an 8-year-old boy battling leukemia, will not make it home to celebrate Christmas and has one crazy, fun Christmas wish:
He would like to receive 1,000,000 Christmas cards in the mail.
If you would like to send him a card and help make his Christmas wish come true, cards may be sent to:
Max c/o Hailey Remish
417 Jones Street
Belle Vernon, PA
15012
Thank you so much and Happy Holidays!!
P.S. A BIG thank you to those of you who have already commented on my morning Facebook post about this and passed along Max’s address to your friends and family. You are wonderful!
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Such a cute Christmas Wish! I’m getting my card tonight to send tomorrow. I bet 1,000,000 isn’t that hard of a goal to reach now that its in the hands of the blogging community!
i hope he at least gets a bunch! enough to make him really smile and know people are thinking about him!
Hi!
My family sent Max cards, as well as all of the students at Chartiers Valley Primary School! If all teachers participated, that is 800 cards from his school alone! I hope that he reaches his goal. Merry Christmas!
Kisa
Thank you so much for sharing this! As a fellow PA-er, I’ll definitely be doing this! Thinking about little kids with such big illnesses breaks my heart.
How cool!!! I’m totally sending one 🙂 This is awesome!!!!
What a great gift!! Totally will do 🙂
This is so cute! I lost my grandmom to leukemia so anything to help the cause or support someone who is suffering strikes a nerve with me. I definitely want to send a card! 🙂
you should sign the card from both you and your grandma (if you want). i’m sure she’d love to send him one, too. 🙂 thank you for helping his wish come true!
How fun 🙂 I will definitely send along a Christmas card.
This is so sweet – such a simple act. For $1.50 (card and stamp) you can make a kid’s holiday!
exactly! it seems like such a simple way to really help brighten another person’s christmas!
This is so cute! I am going to do this tonight when i get home, and send it out tomorrow! Thanks so much for sharing this!
This is so cute, I really hope his wish is met 🙂
Love, shared & sent! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Perfect! I can’t wait to pick out a card to send, and I definitely just blogged about it! 🙂
thank you for helping to spread the word, anna!
Thanks for posting about this Julie! I’ll definitely send a card & spread the word on my blog, twitter & facebook!
I already saw this and shared in on Facebook, but just wanted to comment again that I think this is really great. It is such a great example of the kind of good that can come out of the blogosphere. <3
Awwwwwwww thank you for this awesome info!! I’m totally excited for this little touch of love. 😀
i love this so much and can’t wait to send my card!! what a cute wish, i hope max is filled up with all the love from PBF readers.
Oh my … how touching! Tearing up as I type this. I’m definitely doing this & telling everyone I know to help make his wish come true! 🙂
Blogging about it and sending my card out today.
Also my friend Darcy called the hospital and did verify that Max is there and this is in no way spam! Please help Max’s wish come true.
There is an alternate address to use too for the hospital directly:
Ruby Memorial Hospital
Attn: WVU Children’s Hospital/Max
1 Medical Center Drive
Morgantown, WV 26506-8110
how can you find this out? Information on a child or any information on patients isn’t releaseable, that would be in violation of HIPAA laws. I want to believe this is true but have many doubts.
hi jen. i just called the hospital myself. the man on the phone that i spoke with said he cannot say that max is there, but he said that he can tell me that “a lot of stuff has been arriving for max and nothing is being turned away and everything is very much appreciated.” he said no one is complaining about spam cards. i truly believe it is legitimate.
do u have the number i could use to call
That is so awesome. Thanks for sharing it! I’ll pass along!!!!!!! 🙂
Love this idea! I’m sending off the address to all my friends and family.
Also, Julie I LOVE your handwriting!
That is such an unusual but neat Christmas wish 🙂
This is AMAZING. I’m doing this tonight!
I posted about this after seeing it on your FB page this morning and sent out an email to coworkers. It really is a great way to remember what is really important during the Christmas season. My card will be written tonight!
My boyfriend and I will both send cards!
OMG I am totally doing this!!!! I need to buy a postcard first, but I’m on it!! 🙂
What a wonderful x-mas wish and amazing little boy. I’m in!
Checked out Snopes and this sounds very similar to something from a few years ago …. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/elfrink.asp
This just warms my heart. I’m definitely sending one and passing this along to others.
I’ve asked my whole office (400 people) to help, and got a resounding “YES!” Here’s to Max and his Christmas wish!
yayyyyy!!! thank you!
Such a sweet wish! I hope he gets a whole bundle.
I’m also sending a card to a soldier. If anyone else is interested the address is:
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave
NW Washington DC 20307-5001
Love this too! Do you know if they need to arrive by a certain date? Max is also getting a card from me, Julie thanks for sharing the Christmas spirit!
I’m not sure, I haven’t seen a deadline, but I’m sure letters and cards are always appreciated 🙂
Unfortunately this address is incorrect and the mail will not get to the soldiers.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/elfrink.asp
What a bummer! Glad I’ve been slacking on filling out all of my cards. I read it in a magazine.
Although…is that the right link? Because that snopes story has nothing to do with cards for soldiers.
Eek, sorry! I clicked on another snopes link in the comments here and I must have accidentally copy+pasted that one instead.
Here’s the correct link:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/soldiercards.asp
I was going to just put the address here but when I went to copy it I noticed that they only accepted cards up until December 9! I’m bummed too – I was planning on sending one. Maybe there’s another organization that will still take them.
Thank you for sharing this! I am a Kindergarten teacher and my whole class is going to make cards for this boy on Monday! 🙂
Just put a card in the mail. This made me smile!
Are you sure this is legitimate? I would hate for a bunch of people to get scammed- I read that it’s common for people to include gift cards/money in drives like these. There was another Max asking for 1,000,000 cards in his last few days alive earlier this year from another state. And quite a few other similar posts on the net, all with different addresses and names. It may have started with this legitimate (although outdated) email for someone else: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/elfrink.asp
yes! my friend carissa’s friend actually called the hospital and it’s confirmed. cards may also be sent to the hospital directly:
Ruby Memorial Hospital
Attn: WVU Children’s Hospital/Max
1 Medical Center Drive
Morgantown, WV 26506-8110
I will def do this – Please remind people to NOT include their return address or send anything but a card just in case 🙂
What a touching story- I will definitely send him a card and tell my friends to send some, too. 🙂
Yes! Now I have an excuse to print out my Bob Harper card!!!
I work at a high school and just had all my students join me in making cards. They were so excited to do this!
What a wonderful idea, Lisa!
That’s so great that you’re sharing this – I hope he gets his 1,000,000. I’ll send one out!
I saw this! I live in Pittsburgh, so I’m not that far from WV or Belle Vernon!
I am from Pittsburgh as well ! 🙂
That’s a nice initiative!
This is so cute! I already picked up a card. Will send it out today.
Also, I read in an above comment that you can send it to the hospital directly. Why are the two addresses (the one in your post and the one in the comments) for two different states? Just curious.
Not to be nosy but Belle Vernon, PA is only a little over an hour away from Morgantown, WV. So it’s probably the closest/best hospital for his treatment.
Gotcha. I figured as much. Thanks for confirming. 🙂
This is so sweet! I’ll pick up a card today. I think it’s great that so many people are pitching in to make a child’s Christmas!!!
Just dropped mine in the mail and sent it to my contacts and told them to foward it on! Thanks for sharing!
I saw your post on Facebook and LOVED the story! I put a card in the mail today and posted it on my wall. I hope his wish comes true! Thanks so much for sharing!
I’ve made one! It’s rather pro if I may say so myself. Although I need to buy an extra large envelope for it and figure out how many stamps it takes from Canada…
That is so awesome!! I have younger cousins around his age (girls, though! Haha) and I’m sure they’ll love to make him a card! 🙂 how fun!! What a cool wish..
that’s so cute! i’m gonna go out and get a card! 🙂
I’m going to Pin this on pinterest! You should add a pin button so everyone can pass it along to their followers!
Shared this with all of my friends on facebook! I hope his wish comes true. What a cute little boy.
just addressed my card. Love this!