COMING HOME

We will be leaving Baltimore on Friday 12-11. We have a 12 hour drive and then we will finally be home!!!!! Makenna is doing great and we are so very proud of her.

Amazing Auction Item Just added

We were given a ZOOM teeth whitening from our family dentist today. This serivce is a $525.00 value, you see this on extreme makeover and other shows. I am so excited to have this item for the auction.

Remember we have tons of great items!!!!!!

We have a room!!!!!

We got a call from the Ronald Mcdonald House today, WE HAVE A ROOM. There is always a waiting list so we were crossing our fingers they had room for us. Lelia's family also got their call so we are both on our way. We will be leaving Monday around 3am and hope to arrive by dinner time Monday. Lelia's family will be leaving on Saturday for a 2 day drive because they will have 2 little ones with them on their drive. Driving long distances with kiddos is NO fun!!!!!

We will be setting up for the dinner Friday night from 5-9 (any helpers are appreciated). We will also set up food from 2-4 on Saturday and the dinner/auction will run from 4-9. I hope to see all our friends and family sometime during the night.

We appreciate all support from everyone. We could not have made it this far without all of you!!!!

Password Protected Site

Due to HIPPA and other security concerns we will be posting our daily video blog and updates on a password protected site. We are moving our photos from the photobucket link to a shutterfly site. For the duration of our trip I will be updating on the shutterfly site at http://kurmayfamily.shutterfly.com/ .Once the trip is over I will also copy and paste in our blogs and records onto our family blog sites. If you would like to follow Makenna's progress and see our daily activities and our video blogs you have 2 choices. You can become a "member" (which allows you to log in and see the site without a password) please click"sign up" when on our site.You will create a user name and password which you will use to sign in to view our site. You are not "signing" up for anything but an account on shutterfly. If you already have a shutterfly account, I can approve you that way when you request to join. I will approve each member to keep the site secure. If you want to visit the site as a guest you will need to enter our site password each time you visit. Please let me know if you have any problems. We are leaving on Monday the 19th with our admission on Tue at noon.

Counting down the days

The dinner and auction are coming up this Saturday (10/17 from 4-9). We hope you can all make it out. We have some great auction items from the following companies; Tiffany & Co, Helzberg, Harley Davidson, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Kids Kloset, Car X, Subway, Extreme Tanning, Nicole Green Photography, Mary Kay, Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef, Monster Mini Golf, Hand painted childrens chair, professional wildlife photos, and many more.

Dinner will be served from 4-7, auction will end at 7:45 and winners will be announced at 8.

Dinner includes:
Chili, Olive Garden Salad, Corn Muffins, Desert, Tea, Lemonade, Water & Coffee
Kids Meals:
Hot Dog, chips, Fruit, Desert & Capri sun

Dinner is by donation, suggested amounts $10.00 per chili meal and $5.00 per kids meal. All donations of any amount will be accepted and appreciated. We hope to have a great crowd of family, friends and new friends!!!!!

We will be leaving Monday around 3am to begin our drive to Baltimore. Makenna will be admitted at noon on Tuesday the 20th. We will be staying for 8 weeks between the hospital and the Ronald Mcdonald House. Makenna will received 3 behavioral intensive feeding sessions per day and speech and occupational therapy sessions daily for eating also. Her days will be from 7am-5pm M-F and S-S we only have 3 feeding sessions per day, no therapies. Makenna is allowed 2 (4 hour) leaves from the hospital per week. We plan on using those after feeding ends on the weekend to bring her back to the Ronald Mcdonald House have some family time.

We appreciate everyone's prayers and assistance with our fundraisers and our upcoming adventure. I know I truly could not have done this without all our wonderful family and friends. And you know who you all are!!!!!!!!

We got our date

The hospital emailed today and we have an admission date of Tuesday October 20th at noon. We will be leaving on Sunday the 18th which happens to be the day after our benefit dinner. The trip takes 10 hours on mapquest but with stops it usually adds a few hours.

I am busy trying to get helpers for the dinner, donations for the auction and all the food set up.

In the next 2 weeks we have alot to do and it seems time is getting away from me. We appreciate every ones help so very much and can't wait to see everyone at the dinner.

Please if you will post our flyer anywhere and everywhere. We need publicity for this dinner to make it a HUGE success. Help us get the word our anyway you can. Thank you so much.

Benefit Dinner is right around the corner

We are getting closer to our chili dinner and auction. We have our preliminary call from Baltimore with an estimated admit date for the week of Oct 19th. That is right after the dinner. So come one come all to see Makenna at the dinner, then we will be off......

I am posting our letter to businesses for donations for the dinner. Please feel free to pass this letter to anyone on our behalf for the dinner. In addition to donations for the dinner (food and supply wise) we are looking for auction and raffle items and most of all people to come EAT and shop with us. We NEED supporters that night to make this a huge success for Makenna. Remember our dinner is Saturday October 17th from 4-9 on the west side of Indy. Come help us support Makenna for her trip to Baltimore.

Remember to click on flyers to make them bigger. You can also save them to your desktop if you would like to print some to post or pass around

Donation Request Letter

Dinner Flyer

Benefit Dinner- Saturday October 17th

Please view our flyer below for our upcoming benefit dinner. This will be our final fundraiser before we leave for Baltimore in late October. We are also looking for helpers to sign up for that day, people to make a crock pot of chili to donate and assistance in our auction items. Please click on the flyer to make it bigger for viewing.

We are working on gathering items for our silent auction. If you can help in any of these areas please contact me. Email: themmkfoundation@gmail.com

Do you make anything we could auction off?

Some ideas that have been presented to us:
Corn hole set with bags
Craft Items
Baked goods for a bake sale
A secret talent you have

Do you own your own company or work for a company that could help?

Gift Card/Certificate
Put together a gift basket from your company
Service idea

Have tickets you would donate to auction off?

Maybe a week you will be out of town or don't need
Pacers
Colts
Fever
any team/concert

We are looking for a large item to raffle/silent auction off.

Our ideas are:
TV
I pod
Bicycle
Vacation
Hotel Stay

We are thinking hard to generate as many auction items as possible. If you know of someone I can contact or you have a contact please don't hesitate to pass on our flyer and contact me if you need any assistance at all. I appreciate all your support for Makenna!!!!

Photography Fundraiser- Sunday Oct 4th

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FLYER FOR MORE DETAILS. IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH REGISTERING PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I WILL ASSIST YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS AROUND TO HELP MAKE OUR EVENT A HUGE SUCCESS!!!!

Donations

We have our donation account set up at Huntington National Bank. Donations can be made at any Huntington location by asking for the Makenna & Maison Medical Foundation Account, it is listed as a donation account.

You can find a location at www.huntington.com


Thank You

Benefit Updates!!!!

BENEFIT DINNER UPDATE

We have set the date for the benefit dinner for Saturday October 10th. We will be sending out a flyer next week once we get the final ok on our location. Please save the date to come support Makenna and see her before we leave for our feeding adventure. I am taking RSVP and Helpers starting now..... Trying to get any RSVP that we know of to help in my planning for the food and activities. We will be having a dinner, door prizes, silent auction and music. Lots of fun for the whole family.

NEW BENEFIT FOR MAKENNA- PHOTO DAY

We also are having a photography day on Saturday Oct 3rd. We have a friend who is a photographer who has offered to do a day of photo sessions and donate a portion of they day to Makenna. We will either be at the IMA or a local garden area on the west side. We will be putting out a flyer and she will have a sign up sheet on her site. You can view her photos at www.taffyfrenchphotography.com She does beautiful work and has been so generous to donate this day to us. We will be signing people up every 1/2 hour starting at 9:00 am. If you would like a spot please email me with your preference, all spots will be filled first come first serve, and so far we have had great interest in the day. You can do a family photo, kids photos, couples, pets, anything you would like.

We are setting up the details but as of now this is what we have.$35.00 Sitting fee and receive a free 8X10 of your choice ($15.00 of your fee goes to Makenna)You have the option to order additonal prints at a discounted rate and 20% of any orders will go to Makenna also.Sessions will be set up on the half hour starting at 9:00 am

More Background

Friday, June 5, 2009

Foundation for the miracle M's
So busy around here these days. I am working on starting a medical foundation to assist with the kids extra therapies and such. We are lucky that their "medical" cost are mainly covered by our health insurance but therapy and other medical based activities are all on us. With 2 little ones that need so much we are working hard to figure it all out. I am working on starting a foundation for the kids to makes sure they get each and every possible opportunity to help them along the way. I keep them very involved in extra therapies, adaptive swim sessions, appropriate toys/equipment, etc.We recently learned about a feeding clinic in Baltimore Maryland. I have spoken with them and we are going to an evaluation on June 18th. David, Makenna and I will be driving to Baltimore on Wed to settle in for her evaluation on Thursday. She will be evaluated on Thursday and after dinner we will head home. The tip map quest out about 9 hours from our home. Mom will be keeping Maison to help out, thank you MOM!!!!We are having her evaluated for the 8 week intensive feeding program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (http://www.kennedykrieger.org/kki_cp.jsp?pid=1408). We are under the impression that the waitlist right now would put us in around fall sometime. This is a HUGE STEP for Makenna, she could very well come home eating and eventually get her g tube removed and be a 100 % oral feeder. Some background on why Makenna needs this program so very much.We all eat because we learned when we were young and went through the stages (bottle, purees, solids, etc). Due to Makennas 3 month premature arrival and her brain injury she was unable to go through these stages and is unable to sustain life on her own without tube feeds. We have "pathways" in our brain that we use to plan eating. This can all be confusing especially when I have to type it all out. Basically we "know" to take a bite of a burger, we use our hands to grip the sandwich, we open our mouth, we close around the sandwich, we bite, we chew the req amount of times to break down the food, we swallow, we repeat. Makenna does not have the motor planned pathways to eat. She licks and mouths most foods but does not actually eat things successfully. With the intensive 8 week program they will work with her to train her to eat and build those motor pathways. There are no programs close to us with this wonderful program, so we will travel. I cannot stress how big this is!!!!When we travel Makenna, Maison and I will move to Baltimore for 8 weeks and live in the Ronald McDonald House near the institute. With all of this there will be many cost that are not covered by our insurance. Transportation to Baltimore, daily housing charges by the Ronald McDonald House, any time off for David to be with us during the 8 week time, etc.I am the first to do fundraisers for the March of Dimes and any local organization I can. I have never done fundraisers for us as I have a hard time asking for help. A close and very smart friend has worked with me over the past weeks letting me know it's ok to do this for the kids. We need to do this to make sure Makenna has every chance to gain her basic living skills. So here I go into a world I am so unfamiliar with......I am setting up a tax deductible organization so any donations will be a tax deduction for our family and friends.My first fundraising activity is a charity garage sale on July 18th!!!! I am asking anyone and everyone to donate any items they just want to get rid of to the sale. We will gladly pick up anything or you can drop it off, we will price and sell and thank you all the way for helping us out. Think of any furniture, household items, clothing, etc you don't want to mess with!!!! We will gladly sell it for you!!!! If you know someone who would like to help out please let me know I will be happy to email them.Stay tuned for foundation details and upcoming events.......Charity Garage Sale July 18thSpaghetti Dinner with Silent Auction......... Coming late summer

Some Background on Makenna and Baltimore

Monday, June 22, 2009

Results from Baltimore
We left Wed am for the drive to Baltimore. We had 2 gas stops, one lunch stop to run around and a stretch stop along the way. Makenna did amazing on the drive thanks to snacks and tons of movies. We arrived at the Ronald McDonald house around 8:00 p.m. The house was amazing and beautiful. The people were so friendly, warm and welcoming. It just so happened Ronald McDonald was serving dinner when we arrived. Makenna met him and took a wonderful photo with him, so adorable. We checked into our room and headed off to bed. It was a pretty good day, tired but good.We got up the next morning, ate breakfast at the house and then headed off to see the city before the hospital appt. We went downtown and walked around, ate at a nice little open air like mall and then headed off to the appt.We arrived at our appt about 30 minutes early to make sure we were ready to go. Makenna was dressed adorable of course and got lots of compliments. Her sparkly pink shoes always do that!!!! We were taken in about 2:15, triaged, weight, height, head measurement and placed in a room. We waited a good while till about 3:00 when a nurse practitioner, nutritionist, behavioral therapist and occupational therapist came in to get Makenna's history. I had typed out a month by month timeline of Makenna from day one to today. Thank god I did it really really cut down on the basic questions. They asked lots and lots of questions about what she does on a daily basis, how she reacts to situations, how eating goes, behavior concerns and much more. They left to get a highchair to observe her eating the meal I prepared. The nurse practitioner came back in and wanted to go over her growth chart as they are deeply concerned. I told her I was also concerned with her weight but I felt we were doing all we knew to do. They were not very happy with that I felt. About 15 minutes later a highchair arrived and we went for it. I prepared baked beans, oreos, crackers and bologna for her to "eat". She did wonderful and showed them how well she is doing. They counted all her bites and watched very closely. They wanted to see her eat yogurt which she did well. She also took drinks from her straw cup and showed how sometimes she takes a great sip and others are completely lost with her poor lip closure. They left again and returned with our verdict about 20 minutes later. This time the team came back and it also included a doctor.....He started off with his concern with her weight, again we agreed. He wanted to increase her amount and I told him she cannot handle that. If we even increase an ounce she vomits the whole feed. What is the point of that when we then loose all of the ounces we worked so hard to get down? He then suggested we change her G tube to a different type called a GJ tube. This tube would allow us to feed her the same way during the day with her G tube and at night with the J tube while she is sleeping. Right now we feed her by "gravity feed", we hang a syringe on her IV pole and let the food drip in by gravity, this takes about 25 minutes and goes into the G part of the tube which goes right into her stomach. With a GJ tube the J part of the tube goes into the intestines, we would feed her the same daily through the G tube but at night we would hook her up to a pump and feed her through the J tube with goes at a much slower pace and has to be monitored for blockages. We would be able to feed her more for catch up at night and since it goes into her intestine she would not be able to throw it up since her stomach will be empty and it will be going into her intestines. This tube will be more work and I am a bit nervous about the upkeep. The G tube we currently have can be replaced by us in a few minutes and is pretty simple now that we have it done. The GJ tube has to be replaced while an x-ray is being taken. A x-ray has to monitor the tube placement as it is worked into the intestines. So if she pulls it out or it needs changed we will have to make an appt to get it changed out. We try to stay away medically from the hospital as much as we can to give her a "normal" life so this just connects us back once again. They also want her to have an endoscopy to make sure all is "normal" on the inside. They want to check for allergies, inflammation and whatever else could be wrong on the inside. They then said my dreaded words "Inpatient Program". They recommended her for the inpatient program due to their deep concern with her weight and growth. They believe the inpatient program would benefit her more. We talked alot about the new tube and some brief info about the program. Then the team left and the behavioral therapist stayed with us to answer all our questions.She gave us a run down of a typical day in the program. The inpatient program is 8 weeks long at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute which is connected to Johns Hopkins Hospital. She would receive 3 set feeding sessions with a behavioral specialist, and speech and occupational therapy 2-4 times per week. The 3 feeding sessions would take place 7 days a week and speech and occupational therapy would be Mon-Fri weekly. The people were very nice it was a very long day and very stressful to take it all in. After touring the until it was 6:30 when we headed back to the RMH for dinner and to pack up for the trip home. I do believe the program would be best for her medically but for our family I have lots of concerns.PROS:Program for Makenna I believe would be really beneficial.CONS:Maison is not aloud in Makenna's room, for them to hang out we must stay on the first floor in the lobby. Chasing them around for 8 weeks while they visit in a lobby sounds so overwhelming and sad to me.Makenna cannot leave the hospital for for 2 (4 hour) passes per week. We basically get to sign up our 2 times per week for up to 4 hours. We can take her anywhere as long as we return her. This sucks.The rooms are old and the accommodations for this 8 week living in a hospital experience is less than comfortable. There is a chair in the room for one parent to sleep in at night if you want to stay with your child. Every since Makenna came home my rule is "Makenna goes, I go". She is admitted so am I. I can't imagine leaving her alone scared in a hospital where so knows no one.The area around the hospital and nearby streets are less than appealing. It is a much different life and culture than what we are used to. We would be taking straight routes from hospital to RMH for safety reasons.I will need a helper 24/7 the entire time I am there for Maison. Since we cannot come above the 1st floor with me he will need to be taken care of at the RMH when I cannot be with him.I basically feel like I have to choose one child over another. How do you leave a crying scared baby in a hospital crib to go take care of another one? How do you leave your little 2 year old baby away from you when you are together 24/7 daily to take complete care of another one? I am having a hard time figuring this separation out.How do you leave your husband and complete support system, move to another city (scary) and go on an adventure you are terrified of? I don't know how to go through this without David and my Mom by my side. David doesn't get sick time so we have to do fundraisers for any time we can cover the cost of his check for that week to allow him to come stay with us in Baltimore. 8 weeks is a loooonnnnnggggg time to be away from your main supporters.We met another mom who is in the day program and compared the differences in the day and inpatient program with each other. She was very nice and helpful, it was nice to talk to another mom going through a very similar situation.We packed up and headed to bed. We headed out at 6 am on Thursday morning, this drive wasn't as fun but we made it home around 6 p.m. We were so excited to see Maison, we missed him like crazy. I HATE being separated from him, we are super attached. We were glad to be home and glad to go to bed.....So where do we go from here.....I am working on fundraising for the cost of the program:RMH (15.00 per day to stay there for 8 weeks= total cost around $900.00)additional food and living expenses to carry 2 separate households for 2 monthsco insurance, co pays and deductibles for the program and medical costplane tickets for transportation to and from Baltimoretime for David to be off and be with us during this rough timeI am working on a charity garage sale as my first adventure. My second adventure will hopefully we a charity dinner and silent auction later this summerWe have had several people offer to come out and stay to help with Maison and we are so very appreciative for this. We won't know an actual date till probably early October. They tell us our arrival would be late October or early November to start the 8 week program. This means we will be there for Thanksgiving and Christmas and maybe New Years. The thought of being separated from David and my Mom during the holidays is so sad. We are like one big unit when it comes to the kids and I am scared to go off and do this on my own.So here we are..... I am starting with raising money and going from here. Many people have asked how they can help and so far these are the ways I have come up with.1) Donated unwanted items to our charity garage sale set for July 18th2) Volunteer to help at the sale, we needs lots of help, even short shifts would help so much3) Sponsor a day at the RMH ($15.00 per day is the cost)4) Help set up the charity dinner and silent auction (going to be asking for help and forming committees as I have learned I cannot do it all, all the time, i have learned to admit I need help and that's ok)5) If you have time to come stay with me at the RMH, let me know and we will be setting up a calendar to makes sure all our weeks are covered6) Im sure more will come later, this is where we have stopped for now.I have been typing for an hour and have a very busy day tomorrow so I have to get to bed. Thank you to all of our friends and family members who care so much about our children. It means alot for all the support we have received through the last 4 years, it has meant the world to us. We continue to work hard for the kids daily and provide them with all the support they need.Pictures to follow soon.Good Night!!!!!!!!
Posted by Makenna & Maison Kurmay at 11:35 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Packing for Baltimore
Spent last night preparing the last of the paperwork for the trip. Well I thought the last.... Have been working on all of Makenna's medical and therapy records and creating a medical timeline for the doctors. I am so overwhelmed and nervous about what they will say. We have a 10 hour drive with no stops so with gas and eating probably about 12 hours. Mom is keeping Maison to make it easier on us, THANKS MOMMA!!!!! We will leave early Wed morning, our appoitment is Thursday at 2:30, we will begin our drive home early Friday morning. Praying the ride will go smooth and the appointment will go well. Makenna has started eating much better at home and I am so pleased and shocked!!!!! I will post what we found out at the appointment as soon as I can.

Working on the dinner location and date

Time is coming and we are working hard to find a location and set a date for Makenna's benefit dinner. If you have any connections for a location PLEASE let me know. I am thinking a spot for 100-150 people would be great. We are looking at the sometime in the first weeks of October, right before we leave for Baltimore. We are working on a silent auction, various apperances and a great local band.

More info to come....

Benefit sale for little boy fighting leukemia

Please attend this benefit sale if you can. It was in the flyer last Saturday. Sale is past stilesville take US 40 (washington) into Amo turn right at 550 off of US 40, old car lot called clover car sales, turn right thats 550, follow that into amo, turn left at stop, amo center is on your left up ahead. Sale is for a little boy diagnosed with leukemia at 9 months old, he is still fighting and his dad just lost his job. I donated a bunch of stuff today and they have a pretty full sale. PLEASE GO IF YOU CAN!!! Sale is Fri and Sat 8-6!!!

Flyer ad: Amo: FRIDAY & Saturday 8am to 6pm Gavin Gendron Fundraiser Rummage Located at the Amo Community Building. A ll proceeds will go to Gavin 's parents for their expenses. Entertainment center, big oversized chair, bookcase, strollers, car seats, tons of really nice clothes. ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF! After you visit this sale, stop by the other community sales!

The Big Sale!!!

The big sale is finally over..... WOW what a day that was. We arrived on site at 4:00 a.m. to start unloading and setting up. The clock was ticking and our workers worked their butts off. We were setting up until the clock turned 8. Even with all the prior work and spending the entire day Friday sorting it still took so long. I am glad we worked on Friday to sort and organize, I can only imagine what it would have been like without some prep.

The day went GREAT!!!! Weather was great, helpers were great, it was great!!!! We were busy the entire day, we never had a break in the shoppers. I was so surprised at how busy it was and how packed the parking lot was all day. People were very generous with their donations and their offers on items.

Once we were set up we realized it would be impossible to price each item. We told people to bring up their items and make a reasonable offer because this was for charity. People did very well and most put their extra change in the donation bucket. I was almost in tears many times during the day as people said such nice things and send wonderful thoughts and prayers our way.

We had wonderful donations from the following businesses:
Hines Self Storage of Plainfield (provided us a free storage unit while we were collecting items)
White House Self Storage of Plainfield (provided us a free storage unit while we were collecting items)
Papa Johns of Plainfield (provided pizzas for our workers 2 times that day)
Dunkin Donuts of Avon (provided 3 dozen donuts for our early morning workers)
Brenda from the Hendricks County Flyer (provided a free garage sale classified ad)
Panera (breakfast treats)

We also are so very appreciative for all our wonderful donors. We received so many nice items to sell, which did bring us to a great total. Our total was far from what we guessed it would be, we were all so shocked.

Our volunteers were AMAZING. They worked so hard and were all so willing to help with any part of the sale. We even had some friends show up with extra helpers that was so nice. By the end of the day I couldn't walk much at all and without their help we would have been there until midnight cleaning up. It was a much needed break to have the help cleaning up.

While we were prepping for the sale on Friday and through the sale until Saturday night my wonderful friend Karen kept the babies. Karen took them happily from Friday am to Saturday am, then my regular babysitter (Sarah) volunteered to watch them during the day Saturday until she had to go to work. Then back to Karen's until Mommy and Daddy were finished about 7:00. Having them taken care of and happy while we worked was a wonderful gift. I cannot imagine having to do that with them in tow, it would have been impossible and miserable. Two little ones running around US 40 made my heart jump, I couldn't imagine having to have them there.

They did make an appearance towards the end of the sale. It was great to see them as we missed them since Friday am, but also good it was only for a short time. It was nerve racking to make sure they were in someones hands the ENTIRE time and not walking towards the road.
So you are wondering about our total............. We made $3200.00 after all expenses were taken out . WOW What a great start to our organization. I am so proud and so very excited.

We had some great visitors including the Plainfield Fire Department, surprise visits from clowns Stinky and Rags and wonderful friends and family who stopped in to show their support!!!!

I cannot tell you how thankful we are for the wonderful family and friends who made all this possible. We could not have done it without all the great donations and volunteers. We appreciate you so much and thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Next we will be working on the spaghetti dinner, silent auction and a GREAT night of fun. Stay tuned for details.

If you have any connections for such an event please email me as I will start looking for helpers to work on this next venture soon. If you would like to volunteer on a committee to make this a blow out event please email me, themmkfoundation@gmail.com

Until then I am sending millions of THANK YOU'S out!!!!!

Making signs with Grandma

Grandma working hard for us all day

Surprise visit from Stinky the clown

Stinky and Rags with the girls from IUDM

Plainfield Fire Department

My niece Kaley, My Dad and Sister in Law Marlena

Lauren, Eleanor, and Me

Shoppers at our italian charms tables

Karen and Makenna

Our family photo at the end of a very long day

Our cashier table and shoppers

The kids making their apperance

Nancy working the cash booth

Welcome

We are proud to announce the launch of our non profit foundation for Makenna & Maison. We formed the Makenna & Maison Kurmay Medical Foundation to raise funds for the kids medical treatments and extra therapies and activities. We work hard to make sure they both get every opportunity to grow and flourish outside of what is deemed"medically necessary" for insurance purposes.

Please bookmark this blog to keep up to date on our activities and the kids progress!!!! Also please add the foundations email to your list to avoid going into your junk files!!!! We appreciate all the assistance and love for the kids!!!

Foundation Email: themmkfoundation@gmail.com
Foundation Blog: themmkfoundation.blogspot.com
Donations: Donations can be made at any Huntington National Bank under the non profit name