Let’s Help TwilightMoms Help Justin Furstenfeld & Blue October!

The following is reposted from www.TwilightMoms.com with permission.

We at TT love both TwilightMoms and Blue October. I’m sure everyone knows that I personally claim Justin Furstenfeld as my fake-bff!!! I am very, very pleased to announce that Blue October will be able to keep their scheduled tour dates in Austin on November 20 & 21—and I am going!!!

Unfortunately, the rest of the concert is cancelled, meaning all the sales are lost and the charities aren’t getting the same awareness as they could’ve. So please read TMs post below and see how you can show Justin & Blue October your support. I will be donating on behalf of myself and TTIC…will you join me?

Amy’s Post:

Some of you will remember my blog post about Blue October’s Pick Up the Phone tour. Sadly it was announced yesterday that the tour has been cancelled due to the lead singer of Blue October, Justin Furstenfeld, being hospitalized. 

The Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009 has been canceled due to the hospitalization of Justin Furstenfeld, lead singer of the tour’s headlining band Blue October. Furstenfeld, who was also the spokesperson for Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009, is being treated for suffering from an extreme mental anxiety attack. His doctors have ordered that the tour—which was committed to reducing the stigma associated with mental health, depression, and suicide—be canceled to allow for his recovery.

“Mental health diseases are unpredictable,” says Furstenfeld. “And on the eve of this tour in support of a cause that means the world to me, I am in need of time to heal from a setback in my own personal life, which is severe enough for me to seek hospitalization. I hope that my action to seek the strength and safety of treatment will inspire others that are suffering to do the same.”

The Pick Up The Phone Tour was to benefit suicide prevention and was created through a partnership between the non-profit organizations To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), Postsecret.com, Synclive.com, and 1-800-SUICIDE—The National Hopeline Network.

My heart is heavy because of this news.  As you all know I’ve become a bit of a Blue October fangirl since Stephenie introduced me to their music through her playlists and the Breaking Dawn tour.  I know that I am not the only TwilightMOM that has fallen in love with Blue October and their music.  Even if you haven’t reached the same level of fangirly-ness that I have I know that most of the Twilight fandom has cried their way through “Hate Me” or “My Never” as we associate these brilliant lyrics with our beloved Edward and Jacob.

Almost immediatly after this news hit the internet there were discussions about how to show our love and support for Justin and the whole band.  We thought of get well cards and gifts but that didn’t seem to be the right fit. We wanted to do something that would be more meaningful and permanent than a card and a plate of cookies (although the cookies are very appropriate since so many of our members are Moms )

We know how important the cause behind the Pick Up the Phone tour is to Blue October so we felt that the best way to show our support and say thank you would be to raise money for the other organizations associated with the tour. Depending on the amount we raise we will either randomly pick one of the organizations or we will split it equally between them.  

We will be taking donations up through next Friday October 30th.  You can donate right here in this post via PayPal.  If you do not have a PayPal account and would like to donate through check please email me at Amy@TwilightMOMS.com and I’ll provide a mailing address. 

DONATE AT TWILIGHTMOMS HERE!!!

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  By Tonya, October 28, 2009 @ 4:13 pm

  BTW, if you happen to donate, there is a place where you can add “special instructions”, please mention your association with TTIC. Let’s see if our TTIC readers can raise some cash!

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  By Pam, November 11, 2009 @ 7:21 am

  I wish I could talk to Justin today, this gray cold dim day in the month of my birth. You know how he asks “but will it ever go away, just go away?” The answer is no and I don’t know if I can live with that answer anymore. Today is the second day I haven’t been able to get out and go to work, or even get dressed. I am drenched with tears, and my husband tells me “to do better,” and turns over on the sofa where he will remain until it’s time for him to go work. My mother couldn’t really talk freely because my brother is within earshot, and why that makes her not able to speak I’m not really sure, except that that’s been a thing that has always been in my family. Don’t talk now, later. What if later doesn’t ever come? And what if I have to go another day with my nightgown on inside out and my hand deathgripping my bottle of tranquilizers. I’m just doing time anyway, why not now instead of later. What if later never comes? My pain is so great at this moment that I am certain there is not one more miniscule place left in my body and mind that is not spilling out with it. Oh Justin, what will become of us?

  

  Mary Reply:
  December 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

  I think you haven’t understood what Justin is saying. He said, ” if your savings is drying and you can’t stop from crying you’ve got to SUCK IT UP!”. Consent From treatment, The Answers. you should listen to it.

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  By Tonya, November 13, 2009 @ 3:20 pm

  Hi Pam. I’m sorry to hear about your emotional pain right now. I know it’s hard when times are like this and you feel so anonymous and ignored. I would like to encourage you to visit http://www.pickupthephone.org/. Perhaps Justin would be proud of you if you do! He’s promoting this for just your type of situation.

  Hugs,
  Tonya

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