Your help is urgently needed. Young Mason Thibault needs a lower bowel transplant. Here's how you can help. Please copy and paste the following text in an email and send it to your entire email list. Time is of the essence. The family needs to raise $60,000 to cover the excess expenses that insurance will not cover for this transplant. You can also right click on Mason's picture, save it to your desktop, then insert it in your email. WE can make a huge difference!

Maurice Atkinson

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Forwarding this email may help save 1 year old Mason Thibault's life 8/3/09

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Please email this to anyone that you think may be able to make a difference for Mason Thibault. Mason is the Nephew of our North Macon, Georgia, Officer of the year, Macon Police Department Officer Jon Wantz. Mason is a candidate for the organ donation waiting list...

Pulitzer Prize nominated Investigative Journalist Mike Donila has written an article on Mason & his family:
http://screamsfromtheporch.blogspot.com/2009/08/please-help-save-masons-life.html

Here is Mason's "Children's Organ Donation Transplant Association" Page, which includes donation instructions:
http://www.cotaformasont.com/

Maurice & Teresa Atkinson have set up a Facebook donation website for Mason:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/344345?m=8104e14f

Thank You Fox 24

Saving Mason

Kendall Herold

Story Created: Sep 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM CDT

Story Updated: Sep 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM CDT

A One year old child needs your help in his fight for life.

Mason Thibault is the nephew of a Macon Police Department Officer Jon Wantz.

Mason was born prematurely, and was later diagnosed with Necrotizing Entercolotis; an infection of the intestines that ultimately causes destuction of the tissues.

Mason has been placed on an organ transplantation waiting list.

Wentz added, "With 10-15% of his small intestine, he won't survive. If they took him off of the central line, he would most definitely die. So that's the big thing now."

Insurance only covers a small amount of the transplant, and Mason's family needs your help to finance the life or death surgery.

To help the family, visit www.cotaformasont.com, or his Facebook page at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/344345?m=8104e14f.