A little while ago I posted something on social media about how I was gonna start donating to every crowdfunding campaign I saw for folks with medical bills — even if it’s just a few dollars — and pass them along in case others wanna do the same. The reason being, I get furious when I think that about people having to do things like create crowdfunding campaigns to pay their medical bills. To me, that seems wrong.

Well, this campaign’s special to our household, in that it’s one of my daughter Madeline’s friends, Kailee Reese. She was hit a couple of months ago with a catastrophic illness: Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES). From what my daughter says, it just came out of nowhere. One day she was fine, the next she was hit with seizures, rushed to the hospital, and put in a medically induced coma.

It turns out that’s how FIRES works. And most of the time it’s fatal. Kailee’s a survivor, though, and she fought through it. But she’s still in the hospital, has been for months, and FIRES is something that usually requires lifelong care. I can’t even imagine what the medical bills are gonna look like for this family, nor how they’re managing their jobs and day-to-day bills. But they are, and if you’d like to kick in a little to help out, this is a good one.

Donate here.

(And if you share this, my daughter asks that you use the hashtag #kaileestrong so that Kailee can see all the posts and tweets about her.)