• Good News in SH: Texas restaurant owner has put his business up for sale in order to help a young un
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[IMG]http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2014/01/08/1226796/994212-.jpg[/IMG] [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/08/texas-man-selling-restaurant-to-save-uninsured-employee-suffering-from-a-brain-tumor/"]Texas man selling restaurant to save uninsured employee suffering from a brain tumor[/URL] [QUOTE]A Texas business owner has put his restaurant up for sale with the hopes of saving a young employee who has a brain tumor and no insurance. Brittany Mathis, 19, told KHOU that she discovered a rash on her leg and the hospital determined that it was blood clotting. “So, they wanted to keep me and do CAT scans and MRIs and the next day they came in and told me I had a tumor,” she recalled. Brittany and her mother, Barbara, are both waitresses at Kaiserhof Restaurant in Montgomery. Neither of them have insurance, and the medical bills have been mounting over the past months. So, restaurant owner Michael De Beyer is hoping that someone will buy his restaurant in time for him to help the 19-year-old girl. “I just can’t be standing by and doing nothing,” De Beyer said. “I have to try something because it’s not right.” “Here’s a family, they really work hard they have a lot of stuff against them in the past and they are not holding their hand open they didn’t even ask anybody for help.” [B]No one knew that Brittany’s father, John Mathis, had a brain tumor when it ruptured and killed him in 2000.[/B][/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/michael-de-beyer-selling-his-restaurant-after-learning-teen-waitress-has-brain-cancer-but-is-uninsured/story-fnixwvgh-1226796991594"]Additional coverage by news.com.au on the story.[/URL] [URL="http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/01/michael-de-bayer-kaiserhof/"]De Beyer also owns (and is keeping) Wunderbar, a bar next door to the restaurant.[/URL] Barbara Mathis, Brittany's mom, is the manager for both businesses. Insured or not, this wouldn't have been cheap for the family. What a fucking hero.
Christ. Goes in for a rash and discovers she has a brain tumor. Good guy for doing this, shame he has to go to such lengths due to the US's broken system.
No fucking way. It's one thing to gather donations/pay their bills if you can afford it, but being willing to give up your bussiness that you worked for years for to help her? That's a whole 'nother level of good samaritan. Massive respect for this guy, hope it works out well.
Has he always been planning to sell it? Does he have more than one restaurant? Forgive the cynicism, I find it pretty unhuman-like for a married father of two to suddenly sell away all 17 years of his work just for one employee.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;43472306]Has he always been planning to sell it? Does he have more than one restaurant? Forgive the cynicism, I find it pretty unhuman-like for a married father of two to suddenly sell away all 17 years of his work just for one employee.[/QUOTE] The story does mention that he also appreciates that this means he'll be able to spend more time with his family, and I imagine he wouldn't be doing this if he wasn't financially stable. But even if this is a convenient excuse to retire and get a lot of good PR while doing it, unless he doesn't actually deliver on the commitments he's implicitly/explicitly made to the family, does it matter?
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;43472312]The story does mention that he also appreciates that this means he'll be able to spend more time with his family, and I imagine he wouldn't be doing this if he wasn't financially stable. But even if this is a convenient excuse to retire and get a lot of good PR while doing it, unless he doesn't actually deliver on the commitments he's implicitly/explicitly made to the family, does it matter?[/QUOTE] If it sells and he doesn't deliver he might as well emigrate cause the population of that town will probably publicly hang him.
Oh. Well, there's 16 seconds worth of research well-spent. [URL="http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/01/michael-de-bayer-kaiserhof/"]He owns the bar next-door to the restaurant.[/URL] He's [I]fine.[/I] It's named Wunderbar, too. And Brittany's mom is the manager of both the bar and restaurant. He's looking after his employees. Edited the OP to include this. I love this man. Gayly. I ain't even ashamed to say it.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;43472312]The story does mention that he also appreciates that this means he'll be able to spend more time with his family, and I imagine he wouldn't be doing this if he wasn't financially stable. But even if this is a convenient excuse to retire and get a lot of good PR while doing it, unless he doesn't actually deliver on the commitments he's implicitly/explicitly made to the family, [B]does it matter?[/B][/QUOTE] Well yeah that's what the title insinuated so it kinda does matter. He's a hero and I'm not discounting his actions as very little people would do the same. But just because it's a heroic (and heroic, not because she's surviving but because there's an actual hero in this story) cancer story doesn't you can be misleading under the pretext of "does it matter?", his actions alone are noble enough as it is. There's a difference between sacrificing your only source of income that your family and future family (e.g. grand-grandchildren) relies on all on a whim for someone outside that family and, always have been planning to sell one of your sources of income and then using those funds to fully cover someone else's treatment. One's masochistically-altruistic and the other is massive altruism. Wanting to know if he is masochistically-altruist as initially-erroneously implied doesn't mean I'm discounting his actions at all.
[URL="https://www.facebook.com/michael.debeyer.73"]Found his Facebook[/URL] in case anyone wants to send him kudos. Before anyone freaks out, I in fact found [I]two[/I] accounts that I'm pretty sure are him; however, the other one has a photo of him and his daughters for the profile pic, so I'm guessing that that other one is his private account. I linked to his "professional" profile, and I think I'm safe because this is presumably what he set this second account up for. Please leave his personal account alone. [editline]9th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Starpluck;43472468]Well yeah that's what the title insinuated so it kinda does matter. He's a hero and I'm not discounting his actions as very little people would do the same. But just because it's a heroic cancer story doesn't you can be misleading under the pretext of "does it matter?", his actions alone are noble enough as it is. There's a difference between sacrificing your only source of income that your family and future family (e.g. grand-grandchildren) relies on all on a whim for someone outside that family and, always have been planning to sell one of your sources of income and then using those funds to fully cover someone else's treatment. One's masochistically-altruistic and the other is massive altruism. Wanting to know if he is masochistically-altruist as erroneously implied doesn't mean I'm discounting his actions at all.[/QUOTE] Good point. I was curious about this myself so I really should've just rubbed the brain cells together and googled it up myself before submitting the OP (it was easy to find), but I figured he had to have some sort of backup plan. If he was suicide-bombing his own family's future for this other family, I don't think the papers would be giving him so much media attention, because that's just fucking weird and smells like there might be some sort of collusion waiting to be uncovered or something.
Bad news in SH: You have to sell things in USA to deal with a brain tumour this was like my first thought on this
[QUOTE=sambooo;43472512]Bad news in SH: You have to sell things in USA to deal with a brain tumour this was like my first thought on this[/QUOTE] Living the american dream. Life is a privilage and not a right.
Good News? :v:
They should make a kickstarter campaign... I know it sounds stupid, but if people are willing to donate thousand dollars for some game maybe they would do the same to save someones life...
What a hero.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;43472306]Has he always been planning to sell it? Does he have more than one restaurant? Forgive the cynicism, I find it pretty unhuman-like for a married father of two to suddenly sell away all 17 years of his work just for one employee.[/QUOTE] While in practicality you make a good point, there may be hope that this guy can reclimb the metaphorical ladder with the massive amounts of cred that the media will give him. (His wife may have talked to him about it as well, and may work a job as well) Either way, what a selfless guy.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;43473103]They should make a kickstarter campaign... I know it sounds stupid, but if people are willing to donate thousand dollars for some game maybe they would do the same to save someones life...[/QUOTE] Kickstarter doesn't do charity projects, Indiegogo supports this kind of thing if I remember correctly.
[QUOTE=sambooo;43472512]Bad news in SH: You have to sell things in USA to deal with a brain tumour this was like my first thought on this[/QUOTE] Exactly, I don't know what is good about this. Maybe it's sweet if you're an American, but for a Brit this is a horrifying.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;43472531]Living the american dream. Life is a privilage and not a right.[/QUOTE] I think you just brewed a shitstorm
[QUOTE=sambooo;43472512]Bad news in SH: You have to sell things in USA to deal with a brain tumour this was like my first thought on this[/QUOTE] Which is the case almost everywhere in the world, except for like a dozen of extremely progressive first-world countries
[QUOTE=sambooo;43472512]Bad news in SH: You have to sell things in USA to deal with a brain tumour this was like my first thought on this[/QUOTE] I know, it deeply disgusts me that this is even necessary. Literally anywhere else in the developed world you could get this treated without ruining your entire life.
Any way to donate to him and his employee?
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;43481136]I know, it deeply disgusts me that this is even necessary. Literally anywhere else in the developed world you could get this treated without ruining your entire life.[/QUOTE] So the options are, live a ruined life or die? Damn...
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