Friends of Nat Radwine - We Need Your Help, Today!
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The Emerald Underground was on the 2nd night of a busy St. Patrick’s Day weekend and Nat Radwine, our drummer, missed the gig, not feeling well the night before. Troy Roark sat in for him on drums. I checked my texts on the first break ….. “I’m just going to put it out there” the text began, it was from Nat, “I’m in really bad shape, I have Acute Myeloid Leukemia, I’ll be in the hospital at least 4 weeks.” My heart literally sank into my stomach, I gasped, “acute”, this diagnosis is a very tough one and a massive uphill fight – long, long term. Nat is committed to following the team of Doctor’s orders.
Many of you know Nat as a drummer and hand percussionist and real estate appraiser. Others know him from The Cross Fit Community and even others from Barnes & Noble, Custom Cup Coffee or his recent favorite coffee haunt Three Twigs Bakery. Nat has made friends from all walks of life and he and his family have been generous to those in need. They hosted a foreign exchange student from the Netherlands for a year. He has hosted/promoted bands, covering costs so that the people of Springfield could experience world class music. Almost 2 years ago his youngest daughter asked if they could take in a young woman who was in the US on an asylum visa and found herself homeless. That is how Natasha, a student at Lincoln Land, became part of the Radwine family. Name a holiday and the Radwines will have an extra seat at their family table filled with someone who had nowhere to go.
Many of you will remember, back in the day Nat and his brother David owned Crow’s Mill School where they had legendary bands and served memorable food. Nat’s heart is totally in his family (Carol, Zack, with Courtney and the grandkids, Zoe, Mira and “informally adopted” daughter Natasha), his dogs Stella and CoCo, his bandmates and his community. Now he needs our help. Being self-employed, Nat has no paid benefit time and his income stopped cold on March 16th when he was admitted to Memorial, where he remains, receiving treatment. He is fortunate to have good health insurance through Carol’s job but his ability to earn a living has been put on hold and treatments will be ongoing for months or years. Their youngest daughter Mira is a sophomore at SIU-E, and before this diagnosis, Nat and Carol’s plan was to keep working well past college expenses. A bone marrow transplant may be needed which would require him to be transferred to Barnes in St. Louis. When he was admitted to Memorial, doctors and nurses told them it would be a long road, but that is only beginning to sink in. The Radwine family needs our help. Can you be generous? REALLY generous? Can you help the Radwines? Nat and Carol have always been quick and generous contributors to any good cause, (including opening their home and wallet to others in BIG ways), and now they need us. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Please give the absolute best gift you can, put yourself in Nat’s place, or in Carol’s. Would you want to count on your friends to pitch in? And please PLEASE share this campaign with all of your friends and family.
Thanks so much from us, his Emerald Underground Bandmates, and from Nat, Carol, Zack (Courtney and grandkids), Zoe, Mira and Natasha
Many of you know Nat as a drummer and hand percussionist and real estate appraiser. Others know him from The Cross Fit Community and even others from Barnes & Noble, Custom Cup Coffee or his recent favorite coffee haunt Three Twigs Bakery. Nat has made friends from all walks of life and he and his family have been generous to those in need. They hosted a foreign exchange student from the Netherlands for a year. He has hosted/promoted bands, covering costs so that the people of Springfield could experience world class music. Almost 2 years ago his youngest daughter asked if they could take in a young woman who was in the US on an asylum visa and found herself homeless. That is how Natasha, a student at Lincoln Land, became part of the Radwine family. Name a holiday and the Radwines will have an extra seat at their family table filled with someone who had nowhere to go.
Many of you will remember, back in the day Nat and his brother David owned Crow’s Mill School where they had legendary bands and served memorable food. Nat’s heart is totally in his family (Carol, Zack, with Courtney and the grandkids, Zoe, Mira and “informally adopted” daughter Natasha), his dogs Stella and CoCo, his bandmates and his community. Now he needs our help. Being self-employed, Nat has no paid benefit time and his income stopped cold on March 16th when he was admitted to Memorial, where he remains, receiving treatment. He is fortunate to have good health insurance through Carol’s job but his ability to earn a living has been put on hold and treatments will be ongoing for months or years. Their youngest daughter Mira is a sophomore at SIU-E, and before this diagnosis, Nat and Carol’s plan was to keep working well past college expenses. A bone marrow transplant may be needed which would require him to be transferred to Barnes in St. Louis. When he was admitted to Memorial, doctors and nurses told them it would be a long road, but that is only beginning to sink in. The Radwine family needs our help. Can you be generous? REALLY generous? Can you help the Radwines? Nat and Carol have always been quick and generous contributors to any good cause, (including opening their home and wallet to others in BIG ways), and now they need us. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Please give the absolute best gift you can, put yourself in Nat’s place, or in Carol’s. Would you want to count on your friends to pitch in? And please PLEASE share this campaign with all of your friends and family.
Thanks so much from us, his Emerald Underground Bandmates, and from Nat, Carol, Zack (Courtney and grandkids), Zoe, Mira and Natasha
Organizer and beneficiary
Bill McKenzie
Organizer
Springfield, IL
Carol Radwine
Beneficiary