Help by making a donation
Tax Deductible Donations are being taken through the Eric Drew Foundation. You can send a payment directly from their site. On the Current Patient pages you will find a number of patients listed. Please go to Michael's profile and you will find a "Donate to The Michael Swift Fund" button where contributions can be made. Michael will get no less than 80% of each donation. Then the foundation will pay for medical treatments directly. Eric Drew is an active spokesperson for Umbilical Stem Cell Research.
Or, you can mail a check, made out to "Eric Drew Foundation" (write "Michael Swift" in the memo) send to:
The Eric Drew Foundation, Inc.
Michael Swift Fund
P.O. BOX 1949
Los Gatos, CA 95031-1949
Non-Tax Deductible donations can be made directly. If you do not need to write a donation off on your taxes, donating directly to Michael will help him to pay off the credit card debt incurred in paying for the Umbilical Stem Cells. While Dr Steenblock coordinated this Umbilical Stem Cell procedure, these were not purchased from him and were administered in Mexico, and therefore the cost of this can not be reimbursed by his clinic.
Click the link below to make a donation directly to Michael. 100% of these donations will help to pay for Michael's medical treatments. Or you can mail a check to Michael Swift PO Box 673, Captitola, CA 95010
Add a Donations link to your site
You can copy and paste this code to make this image link on your MySpace, web pages, or in emails. It will link to conqueringms.com:
<a href="http://www.conqueringms.org/donate.html"><img src="http://www.conqueringms.org/images/donate.gif" alt="donations link to conquering MS Multiple Sclerosis" width="271" height="109" border="0" /></a>
Fundraising Goals
The total charges from Michael's medical treatments through the Brain Therapeutics Medical clinic, and for the Umbilical Stem Cells, are listed below: None of these costs are covered by Michael's health insurance and he is needing a great deal of help to pay for them.
Total costs
$1,800 travel (flight, hotel, car)
$2,500 bone marrow transplant
$3,000 Neupegen injections
$300 Epogen injections
$900 1 month Human Growth Hormone injections
$13,000 CD34 and CD133 umbilical stem cells
$6,000 Mesenchymal umbilical stem cells
$1,000 10 hours of CVAC treatments
$28,500 Total charges (any and all help covering this amount is greatly appreciated and accepted)
Keep in mind that Michael gets 80% of the donations through the Eric Drew Foundation, but that donation is 100% tax deductible to the person donating. EDF will give these donations directly to Michael 's doctor, and then the clinic will reimburse Michael for the above mentioned treatments.
Donations received to pay for charges listed above
as of December 22 , 2007:
$3,950 direct donations to the Swift Family
$7,800 available from EDF