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Carwyn Edwards - An Emergency!!!
URGENT: Please Please Support this Appeal!!!
Carwyn Edwards has probably done more to promote Wales in the USA than any other man alive. He inspired us and hundreds of others to take up the cudgel. He is now seriously sick in hospital with infective Endocarditis. If you have anything to spare please support this campaign!!!!
For those of you who don't know Carwyn Edwards let me just say that he was the most influential promoter of Wales in the USA for many years. He inspired me, Dave Parry and o thers to spend our time productively and promote Cymru. The news of his current medical condition is devastating!! We must help our own AND Carwyn Edwards is the first among us. His Wales Newsletter went out to 30,000 people a week long before AmeriCymru was born. I have donated personally and I will give more. Please help this online Welsh American pioneer in his hour of need!!
"He is suffering from Infective Endocarditis, which is a bacterial infection in the blood that settled on his mitral heart valve. This growth grew to abo ut 2cm, and then started showering blood clots throughout his body. This has led to him having his left leg amputated above the knee and he will also lose part of his lower right leg. The clots have also seriously damaged his kidneys and spleen and he is presently on constant dialysis. The clots found their way into his brain causing lesions and hemorrhaging. This brain injury is delaying the open heart surgery that he needs to replace his heart valve." https://www.gofundme.com/carwyn
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As a tribute to the man and his work I have posted a sample newsletter from November 2009 here:- News From Wales And The World!
Carwyn produced this weekly newsletter for many years and at the time it was the primary, and often the only, online source of reliable information about what was going on in the Welsh American community.
Diolch yn fawr Carwyn
(I have removed email addresses and telephone numbers as many of the promotions are no longer current. Website links in the newsletter may or may not still be extant.)
Carwyn was a great source of positive Welsh energy in the Phoenix area for many years. We spent many late-night hours after Welsh language classes talking about all things Welsh in Welsh, belly-up to a favorite bar. It's sad to see him in this desperate state. Fate is casually heartless and indiscriminate but this fund-raising effort will surely help his cause and rehabilitaion. Please give generously.