Censored 4 Asking Tough Questions

Censors Gag Tough Reporting

Part of the process of living is leaving your mark on the world. It is not an ego thing, from my perspective. Some of us leave a positive mark; others a negative mark. A wise person knows he can make a difference and he does his best to make that difference.

Eduardo Salazar Rivera is fighting tough odds. He has an illness that strikes one in a million, mostly children. Without treatment most die within 2 months. Those who get treatment with Gamma Globluin alone have a 20% survival rate; those who get the works, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, professional medical care in a hospital setting-have a 70% chance.

As if Eduardo does not have the deck stacked against him, there are three more factors working against Eduardo:

Hi is poor, so he does not have access to traditional medicine others do;

He is a Mexican National;

He is a Poor Mexican National in Mexico instead of the US.

In order to give Eduardo the best chance possible he needs the best medical care money can buy. Isn't that what we all want for the important people in our lives?

In order to get the best doctors Eduardo Salazar must have access to funding. Even if the entire procedure were free, it costs the family a lot of money to take care of a critically ill child. There are other brothers and sisters who need help. Care takers need taking care of, too.

I have hit a brick wall on getting help for a Mexican national in Mexico. Our neighbors to the south have not learned how to care for the poor. It is beyond our ability to change that. If Eduardo were simply Hispanic in the US, then there would be a lot more solutions.

There would also be more solutions if Eduardo were a Mexican National in the US. At least we would not be fighting the visa process. While we would still have funding issues, some organizations like the Catholic Charities are willing to help children in their region.

So that is what I said. Let's just say the message was not well received.

I appealed to the conscience of the American people and of the Latino press with disastrous results. Face it, Blogger is about one thing: namsy pansy reporting, a million articles on how to write a blog, be a good lover, make money...but the moment you become controversial in your writing, blogger boots you off of the bus.

That is what happened here. Where is Eduardo Sotelo and Univision with its most popular radio show Piolin Por La Manana? Where is US corporate sponsorship like Apple? Where are my fellow Americans? Where are all of the well to do who could come to Eduardo's help but won't?

Does Eduardo deserve the right to live? Would he deserve the right to live if he were your child?

Will you help?

We need volunteers to bring this case into the public. We need money to pay for medical expenses, legal expenses, travel and the lsit goes on.

We need people from all races and all nations to pull together and help save dying children, one child at a time.

When I ask these questions then the censors go to work. The ugly American, who has more than enough, won't help, and he does not want anyone to know it. That is part of the problem with Eduardo's fight. The true story about the rich American, the poor Mexican, never gets told.

Will you help?
Send your donations of money or things to be sold on eBay to:
Tim Paynter
120 South Kalamath St.
Denver, CO., 80223

Write or call if you are willing to donate time or can help us make media contacts-
Tim Paynter 720 951 1700, in Spanish 303 594 3035

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Eduardo Hemorhages--Operating Room In Prep

Geeez! Why does it have to be this way?

There was just a frantic call from Mexcio. Eduardo is hemorrhaging and the operating room is being prepared as I am writing this. The family is frantic, tears, disappointment, wishing it were not so, desperation, Christ not sure what to say. I know saying how I feel, or trying to imagine how frantic parents feel, is futile. Words never give it justice.

This is a story of a young man fighting for his life. He has HLH, a rare autoimmune disorcer. As with so many battles, sometimes it just seems a losing battle. If you beat one thing then there are five more coming at you.

Hope, faith, surrender, wiilingness to accept positive and negative out comes without pretending to understad why either must be so...

For those of you who have young ones fighting for their lives, you know how this is. Please keep 11 year old Eduardo Salazar Rivera in your prays this Saturday morning. You can write him and we will get the message to him, eduardoenvivo@gmail.com, that translates to Eduardo en life!

Don't Worry Be Positive!

Don't worry, be positive!

This has been a tough week for Eduardo Salazar Rivera who lies in the General Hospital in Durango, Mexico, fighting for his life.

Eduardo has a rare disease called HLH which afflicts mostly children. Survival rates are marginal unless treatment is begun quickly. Even then, we lose way too many little ones.

Eduardo has finished his course of five days of Gamma Globulin, an immune drug designed to help him ward off the cancer-like illness he has been fighting. If he is really lucky he will make a full recovery, the illness will go into remission, and he won't need the next treatment...chemotherapy likely followed by a bone marrow transplant.

If Eduardo is not lucky he is going to be really Unlucky. A lot of people with hearts of gold have been beating their heads against the wall trying to figure out how to get Eduardo the next phase of treatment if he needs it. There won't be a lot of time to figure it out. As things stand now, the $500,000 needed is so far out of the reach of everyone I know that is is not an option for Eduardo.

I have spent a lot of time being worried this week and not very positive. Watching a broken health care system, both in the US and in Mexico work, or better said, not work, has been frustrating. The cost of taking care of young lives is so high the solution society has worked out for us is to toss these little people aside as if they don't count.

Every child has the right to live.

So that leaves me with few options. Let go, let god. Accept the things I cannot change. Pray that God's will and my will are the same, and be prepared to accept God's will if they are not.

Don't worry. Eduardo, Be positive~

God speed, God Bless!

Everyone Counts, Every Child Has a Right To Live! Where is Univision, Piolin, The Conservative US Press?

"Every Child Has A Right To Live"

"I am pretty broken up" said Denver attorney Tim Paynter. "I have been trying to help a little kid in Mexico suffering from a rare, often fatal disease."

According to Paynter, the child might die if he does not get help soon.

The 11 year old boy, who is lying in a hospital in Durango, Mexico, is the victim of Hemophagocytic Limphohisti0cytosis Syndrom, or HLH.

Paynter says he consulted with experts in the field. They said the child needs aggressive treatment or he may die. In this case, aggressive treatment includes chemotherapy and possibly a bone marrow transplant.

Hospital General De Durango in Mexico wanted payment in advance for an expensive medication called gamma globulin. The family forked over $400 a day for 5 days in advance, on threat of the child being sent home to die.

"Unless he receives help Eduardo will probably die."

Paynter said the expert from the Histocytosis clinic in Cincinatti, OH, which is likely the foremost clinic in the United States for HLH, said Gamma Globulin alone is rarely adequate to preserve life.

"Treatment could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars."

"After talking to the expert, yesterday, I found out treatment could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!" My lord Paynter said, a tear falling from his eye. "We thought we were doing great coming up with over $2,000 in a few days."

Paynter said he has been frantically knocking on doors full time during the past week trying to find funds for the child.

"Every door I knock on gets slammed in my face!"

Paynter said he called Catholic Charities when the family needed the initial $2,000.

"We only help people in this country"

"Sorry, we only help people in this country" she said.

Then he called the Good Will, was referred to the Salvation Army who sent him back to Catholic Charities, Then he called the Shriners. They don't do this kind of work and if they did, it would be in Mexico for a Mexican boy.

"'I have treated a lot of Mexican children' the guy on the other end of the line told me defensively. He did not get the point of my post."

The guy with Angel Flight did. Angel Flight are volunteer pilots who transport sick people at no charge.

"We don't knowingly transport illegal aliens" the voice on the other end of the line told Paynter.

"At least that guy understood I was talking about Mexican nationals in specific, and not Hispanics in general."

"It was the presumption that the Salazar's were illegal because they are Latino and coming from Mexico that bothered me." said the attorney. "I am sure the chap had the best of intentions. He is so conditioned by the plague of hate that he could not see how his assumption was offensive."

"I can't even get the Mexicans to give to Mexicans." Paynter said and then explained his play on words.

He says Mexcian Nationals who have immigrated here legally won't help. He said he has been knocking at the door of Piolin Por La Manana, the most popular radio show host in the Latino world, to no avail.

"To be fair to Eduardo Sotelo, the person behind the Piolin personality, I presume I have his company email, which is another story. I also presume he read the email. Here is a guy who advocates for Latino sick and oppressed and I can't get a response."

The attorney added, to be fair to the community that knows the Salazar family, Latinos and others, the giving has not stopped. If they know us they give. Why is it poor people are the ones to always give?

The Denver attorney has sent emails to Mark Hurd at HP. No word. Can you imagine what Fox News, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and god forbid, Lou Dobbs would give? Nothing. What do you think?

"No one cares about a Mexican."

The American public says it does not discriminate against Mexicans. Paynter says what we really mean is we don't discriminate against Hispanics. But discrimination against Mexican nationals who are in this country is rampant. That is what we call discrimination based upon national origin.

"You can't discriminate against either one, race or national origin."

"So why should we discriminate against a terrified mother as she holds her child, screaming in pain, just because they are Mexican nationals in Mexico? Maybe we can't save every child, but we can save Eduardo Salazar. Maybe tomorrow it will a child near you who needs the help.

"If You don't like the title, why not get out your check book and help Eduardo?"

"If you don't like the title to the piece, then why not get your checkbook out and help this kid out? If you don't do it right now you will probably forget..."

"You see" Paynter said, finally relaxing as he sat back in his char, "When it comes to our children, everyone regardless of race or nationality has something in common. We agree, Every child has a right to live. Especially if that child is mine."
Donations can be sent to:
Tim Paynter
In trust for Eduardo Salazar Rivera
120 South Kalamath St.
Denver, CO., 80223

If you can't send money, why send something you don't want, and we will put it on eBay?

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Just a note, I am interviewing myself in this piece. I have not found anyone who has the guts to do it for me, or for the country.

Marked Iimprovement-US Citizens Stingy

I was relieved to hear my new friend in Mexico is doing a little better. He has been fighting against all odds. We are concerned he is not getting enough treatment and the little better that he is doing will not be enough.

Friend Erin Kennedy from Castle Rock, Colorado, has been working non-stop. She has been consulting with doctors at Children's Hospital in Denver. There is talk of a medical visa. We are lucky to have Erin on our side.

"There is talk of a medical Visa."

I was looking at Eduardo's picture today, and he is so thin. This is a kid that had a lot of energy and a lot of heart. I have a difficult time understanding why god makes these decisions, but I know it is not in my hands.

I have a harder time understanding why my fellow Americans, especially the people of Denver, have been unwilling to respond. I kind of understand it in a way. I have taken the same attitude many times. I was afraid of getting scammed, I was selfish and justified being stingy because I did not know the victim.


"I have a hard time understanding why my fellow Americans, especially the people of Denver, have been unwilling to respond"


When I say people of Denver, I am talking about those who do not know us personally. Those who are familiar with the Salazar family have been very generous. They understand how serious this is and how much we need the help. The problem is, most of them are poor people and their is a limit to how much they can give.

Our latest thought is an Internet auction. If people don't have money they surely have something they don't want. I spoke with the eBay on-line help people and for the first time I can say they were zero help. After getting transferred five times I finally gave up. At least I have know we can't use the word charity. Heck, this just came up, how would we be a charity already?

"If people don't have money they surely have something they don't want and can give."

I am a Strong believer in higher powers. I don't know what my higher power wants from me, or for Eduardo. I don't know what the future holds for anyone. If God wants Eduardo, as he will want all of us one day, then so be it. I must do my part, and we are all asking others to do their part. Maybe that really is nothing. What do you think?