While I'm sure it's far more than they need at the moment, my take is that they (and you) should think of it as a "make life easier" fund until they're both back on their feet. As people have suggested, laundry, house cleaning, xmas lights, mowing (next year), etc. are all fair game if it helps them to not stress.

And if they're 100% healthy down the road and legitimately don't need it, I don't think anyone's going to be upset if they just donate the rest to a deserving nonprofit.

This place is great. Here is the prayer Joe and family prayed for Kathy last night, feel free to add your voices to it if you're so inclined:

Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving Kathy.
I thank you for sending your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ,
to the world to save and to set Kathy free.
I trust in your power and grace that sustains and restores Kathy.
Loving Father, touch Kathy now with your healing hands,
for I believe that your will is for Kathy to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit.
Cover Kathy with the most precious blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. Cast away all things that should not be in her.
Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus’ precious blood.
Let the fire of your healing love pass through Kathy’s entire body to heal and make new any diseased areas so that her body will function the way you created it to function.
Touch also her mind, emotions, and the deepest recesses of her heart.
Saturate Kathy’s entire being with your presence, love, joy, and peace and draw her ever closer to you every moment of her life.
And Father, fill Kathy with your Holy Spirit and empower her to do your works so that her life will bring glory and honor to your holy name.
We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.

Totally agree on all points, we don't know how long this may drag on. I had figured that any amount ending up not needed could go to the RA foundation or whatever they wanted. I'm sure they'll have a bill or two from this as well. Thing that got me uneasy is I had TLO (since he lives in the area) searching for services and outside of house cleaning he wasn't having much luck. I also haven't got back with Joe yet to find out exactly how he feels about all of this. Need to make sure I'm staying in my lane and all. Suppose it's mostly because y'all caught me off guard with your generosity and it got me a bit overwhelmed. I did not expect it to blow up like it did in one day. But make no mistake, you all are awesome.

Agreed. Use the money as you see fit to benefit Joe and Kathy in the best way possible.

Yeah, if they're out in the sticks, it might be a bit more limited on what options they have. Even so, it's there if they need it.

I wouldn't put too much pressure on yourself, either. We appreciate you taking the lead.

It is amazing what this group is capable of doing. It is not $3610.00 and there are 4 hours left.

Not at all. And, personally, I wouldn’t take issue if they kept it and applied it to regular carpet cleanings to compensate for all the times we’ve thrown up on their floors. :D

Hey now, I never threw up IN the house.

I did…. The second time. It was the next morning, the bathroom was occupied so I ran to the kitchen sink, because that did seem better than the floor.

The first time I was MUCH more courteous, I went down to my vehicle and threw up in the back of it.

The only time I puked down there was when I did some of the Luv's infamous antifreeze shots. We had borrowed a camper that year, I went in there to lie down for a bit, and it didn't take too long for the big moment to arrive. I didn't want to puke directly on the floor of the camper and I didn't have time to get out of the door or back to the bathroom. Luckily we had removed the crisper drawer from the fridge to make room for other stuff and it was right there so I puked in it. Good times.

I sent a name of a good guy that runs a cleaning service

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What they said! Great job for all of you involved pulling together to help them

Let's all be honest....when it comes to spouses, most of us got better than what we deserve.

Stevieray:

Please tell Joe that he and Kathy are in our prayers.

Oh I married up without a doubt.