How you can help

Mike spent a lot of time in his life helping other people, and we want his spirit to live on in that way.

In the coming months, Life o’ Mike will begin a program called Patient Pals and Family Friends.

In Patient Pals, trained volunteers who have lived with a chronic illness or disability will be companions to those who are newly diagnosed or disabled.

Family Friends will volunteer to be with family members who need the support of someone who has faced the illness, disability or death of a loved one.

We plan to hold our first training in January, and we need volunteers and funding.

Please e-mail Life o’ Mike at lifeomike@gmail.com, or send contributions to Life o’ Mike, PO Box 1213, Asheville 28802.

Questions? Call 828-243-6712.

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Help Life o' Mike

We need your help now more than ever. Your tax-deductible donation will help us get Patient Pals and Family Friends off the ground. Please consider a gift in honor or in memory of a loved one.

Patient Pals & Family Friends volunteer training

Our Feb. 27 training had to be postponed, but we have rescheduled. Join us 8 days, as we train our next group of volunteers for Patient Pals & Family Friends. The four-hour training will run 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and will include lunch. Patient Pals are people who have experience with an illness or disability. After training, they will be paired with someone who is newly diagnosed or disabled. Family Friends will be volunteers who are paired with family members of people who are ill or disabled, and will have been through the expeience of having a loved one with illness or disability.

In Loving Memory

Life o' Mike has participated two memorial services to remember those who have died from our broken health care system, one in Asheville and one in Raleigh. If you would like to organize more of these services, please contact lifeomike@gmail.com and we will help put it together. The services include stories, prayers and information on how people of faith can make a difference. About 45,000 people die each year because they don’t have health insurance, according to a recent study by Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That breaks down to one American every 12 minutes. Those people can be honored in the service by a bell chime and a moment of silence every 12 minutes in the service. For more information, call Leslie Boyd at 828-243-6712.

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