Fundraiser For Johnathan’s Billboard

Please consider a donation to Learn The Risk for a billboard featuring my son Johnathan Wurz. It will be placed in Syracuse, NY. I have been working with some beautiful people who are assisting in making this a reality. Although the final billboard has not been designed, it will look something like this. It’s being designed and implemented with the help of Brandy Vaughan from Learn The Risk and many other angels in our community.

This is the proof from a banner NYVAR and those wonderful people I previously mentioned are placing on Route 81 on a haywagon at the end of the month. I will provide the exact location details when I receive them.

Please feel free to share!! Thank you for your donation in advance and for bringing awareness to this issue.

🚩Super IMPORTANT!!! 🚩
When donating you MUST put in the notes at the bottom “Upstate NY Billboard”!!🚩

Thank you all!!

Donate here:
https://www.learntherisk.org/donate/

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NEW YORK RALLY & LOBBYING DAY FOR VACCINE INJURY & VACCINE RIGHTS: MAY 14, 2019-JOIN US!!

NEW YORK RALLY & LOBBYING DAY FOR VACCINE INJURY & VACCINE RIGHTS: MAY 14, 2019

S2994/A2371 eliminates the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school in New York.

Office visits to legislators ‪9 AM – 5 PM‬ • Rally on the West Steps of the Capitol, ‪11 am‬ • State Street and Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12224

Please join us for this critical event in Albany on May 14th to ensure our voices are heard. Our religious rights, parental rights and medical freedom will not be taken away by our government! We are excited to announce some of our speakers at the rally… and still more to come!! Stay tuned!!

*Sponsored by New York Alliance for Vaccine Rights

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Please get on the phone and call your State Senator and Assemblymember and politely ask the staffer if the legislator has a position on the bill. And then follow up with an email after your calls, many staffers may not pass along all the pertinent info you shared by phone. Use email to recap your stance and refute any points brought to your attention on the call that is misinformation & not true. Emails are read by the reps and will help to shape their views on this.

Their names and numbers are below. And briefly explain what the religious exemption means to your family and why keeping it is essential.

Please get on the phone TODAY and call the following members of the Assembly Health Committee and politely ask the staffer if the Assemblymember has a position on the bill. And briefly explain why the religious exemption is so important to your family and why our rights should be retained & the impact it will have on you should this pass.

Richard Gottfried, Chair, (212) 807-7900
Amy Paulin: (914) 723-1115
Linda B. Rosenthal: (212) 873-6368
Nader J. Sayegh: (914) 779-8805
Robin Schimminger: (716) 873-2540
Michaelle C. Solages: (516) 599-2972
Phil Steck: (518) 377-0902
Edward C. Braunstein: (718) 357-3588
Kevin A. Cahill: (845) 338-9610
Steven Cymbrowitz: (718) 743-4078
Sandy Galef: (914) 941-1111
Aileen M. Gunther: (845) 794-5807 and (845) 342-9304
Andrew Hevesi: (718) 263-5595
Ellen Jaffee: (845) 624-4601
Ron Kim: (718) 939-0195
Jeffrey Dinowitz: (718) 796-5345
Rodneyse Bichotte: (718) 940-0428
Peter Byrne: (845) 278-2923
Charles Barron: (718) 257-5824
Marjorie Byrnes: (585) 218-0038
David McDonough: (516) 409-2070
Andrew Garbarino: ( 631) 589-0348
Thomas J. Abinanti: (914) 631-1605
Jake Ashby, (518) 272-6149
Ed Ra: (516) 535-4095
Andrew Raia: (631) 261-4151

The media-driven hysteria around the measles is pushing out a constant stream of fear and misinformation which unfortunately has the eyes and ears of NYS legislators and is influencing their stance on S2994/A2371, the bill to eliminate religious exemptions. The time is now to take action – before it’s too late.

“Thanks” and “Giving” Can Never Go Together Again

In a couple days we will sit down with our friends and families and spend hours preparing for a meal that only lasts 30 minutes. For some of us, we are preparing for a day that we are asked to feel thankful, but all we can feel is numb.

For a grieving parent a holiday is a preparation of emotions and trying to decide how emotionally stable we think we are going to be that day. We try to avoid certain triggers that will cause us to cry in a crowded room and we stow away to the restroom when the air gets too thick. It is a preemptive decision to dive into an occasion where we are reminded that our child is not with us, but should be.

This is my first “Thanks” “Giving” without Johnathan. I’m not really sure if I can be thankful this year because for me it’s the taking that took place and not the giving. I feel selfish when I find myself at a social gathering because while I try to smile, I die inside. I can engage in conversation, but my mind is always traveling to one location-back to a time and place when my son was here.

In my mind, I laugh at the amount of food on the table that I know my son would never eat. He would stick his tongue out at the turkey, pick at the stuffing, and take a stab at the cranberry because it’s sweet-tasting. He would walk away dissatisfied while expressing his disgust at all food Thanksgiving. It was only when the desserts came out that Johnathan expressed an interest in sitting at the table.  I will peer across the table this Thursday searching for that face and come up empty as I search to define why I am thankful.

How do we prepare ourselves for anything anymore? Is it wise to just avoid everything or rather should we embrace the future and pretend in our minds that somehow our child is there with us in spirit? Both of these choices sound bleak and disheartening, but I push forward carrying nothing but my memories of a boy who will always be 4.

So if you find yourself sitting at the dinner table this Thanksgiving with someone who has lost their child please mention their child’s name. Share with them a memory of their child that will help them make it through the upcoming holidays. The worst pain a grieving parent can feel has already happened, but after that, it’s the not mentioning that continues to fester the wound.

There might come a Thanksgiving where I can be thankful again, but this year I can’t put the words together, just know that I am trying.