BOBBY & MIKE REA CONNECT FULL CIRCLE

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BOBBY's GREATEST PRAYER FOR MIKE

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:02:03 -0800 (PST)



Debra, our Chairman, had a private meeting with one of her clients Larry, who builds homes for ABC's EXTREME HOMEMAKER OVER. Composed this letter together and it is being forwarded & hand-carried to Larry to see what he can do. He works with the Team there. PRAYERS THIS COMES TO PASS!!
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Subject:
To Debra's Client Larry - Builder of homes for ABC's EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER


"DON'T call for an emergency ambulance! ...Call the Life Flight helicopter!...NOW!" ..."Get the Horse Ambulance out here, NOW!" ..."No! Wait! DON'T remove his helmet - it'll surely kill him!" ..."Just get him to the vet clinic, NOW!" ... (www.equestnetwork.com)

Hi Larry,

Per our conversation today, just letting you know Barbaro, who trained at Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Maryland is forever intertwined with Mike Rea and his own miraculous recovery. Together, both are beating the odds and "moving beyond brokenness" in daily baby steps.

When Kentucky Derby Champion Barbaro suffered catastrophic injuries, Alex Brown (a freelance Exercise rider @ Fair Hill and Webmaster for www.timwoolleyracing.com ) provided entire daily updates to Barbaro fans globally on Barbaro's healing progress. Shortly after Barbaro's Preakness accident, prominent Fair Hill trainer Mike Rea experienced life-threatening brain stem injuries while training horses one memorable day. Weathering life's storms, his healing recovery and rehabilitation care have placed huge financial burdens on his family. Like Barbaro's, the Mike Rea Relief Fund was started to help with rising medical bills. Since Mike's full recovery will take at least 2 years or longer, it's necessary to completely readapt their present home to accommodate Mike's severe handicap. His doctors cautiously released Mike back home. Door and hallway openings do not accommodate wheel chair access. This is placing an extreme hardship on Mike and his family. Stair climbing is exceedingly difficult as well as simple tasks you and I take for granted. To date, there are almost 3,000 signatures on a special Care 2 petition for ABC's Extreme Home Makeover Edition from genuinely caring people who know that home is where Mike's heart is. Fair Hill Training's family and thousands of well-wishers believe Mike and his family truly deserve this to make a miraculous Christmas gift come true. Help us make this Extreme Home Makeover miracle happen for Fair Hill's deserving heroic family of fighting champions.

P.S. Larry, below are two vital life-links you can forward on. Hopefully, this will get to the right folks as Barbaro is praying and hoping for this miracle too! Kindest thanks for your help here making a seemingly impossible dream come true.

WE BELIEVE in Miracles, Barbaro, Fans of Barbaro, and Mike Rea. For more of Mike's Life and the Barbaro Connection visit http://www.mikerea.blogspot.com and http://www.equestnetwork.com/equest_life_publication_view.php?id=55.

Debra Lopez
Chairman

Carole Shaw
Cochair
Premiere Barbaro Ambassadors
www.campaigningforbarbaro.com. "We will continue campaigning for Barbaro and his friends until we make a difference."

cc. Mike Rea Family
Alex Brown
Fair Hill Training Center

*Special thanks to Carol at www.equestnetwork.com for her great website.

(Photos courtesy of Rea & Rehm families, UPenn Vets - Sabina Louise Pierce, and Tim Woolley Racing).

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