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Join annual golf outing to help Sleepy Hollow woman with paralysis

On Monday, June 19, tee off for a good cause at the third annual golf outing at the Golf Club of Illinois in Algonquin to help Eileen Reedy, a Sleepy Hollow mother living with paralysis after a spinal cord injury. Enjoy a day of golf, cocktails, dinner, and silent and live auctions.

Eileen began fundraising with the nonprofit Help Hope Live at helphopelive.org in 2014 after a fall down the stairs left her with a spinal cord injury that paralyzed her from the chest down. Today, she requires 40 hours of private home health care per week and 12-14 weekly sessions of rehabilitation therapy. Fundraising also helps to offset the cost of expenses like home modifications, copays and new technology to restore mobility.

At helphopelive.org, Eileen's husband and caregiver, Rich, provides regular updates showing how donations influence Eileen's life. "She continues to improve every day," he wrote in March, sharing a new video, "but insurance and out-of-network expenses keep me up at night."

Proceeds from the golf outing will be donated to the nonprofit Help Hope Live in honor of Eileen Reedy to assist with some of her uninsured injury-related expenses.

It begins with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. at the golf club, 1575 Edgewood Drive. Registration is between 9 and 11 a.m. Cocktails follow from 4:30 to 6 p.m. with a silent auction from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Enjoy dinner and a live auction from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Register online at helphopelive.org for $175 or $700 as a foursome; $87.50 or $350 of that is tax deductible. Donation includes green fees, cart fees, range balls, prizes, lunch, four drink tickets for the course and entry to the cocktail party and dinner. Enjoy dinner only for $75 ($44.50 is tax deductible).

Entry includes one chance to win a car with a hole-in-one!

The golf outing is sponsored by Toll Brothers. More information about sponsorship can be found online at helphopelive.org or by contacting Martha Davis at (847) 590-5100, ext. 9713, or mdavis@tollbrothers.com.

Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law, and all funds raised will be used to offset Eileen's medical expenses via Help Hope Live's North-Central Spinal Cord Injury Fund.

Help Hope Live is a national nonprofit that specializes in engaging communities in fundraising campaigns for people who need a transplant or are affected by a catastrophic injury or illness. Since 1983, campaigns organized by Help Hope Live have raised over $124 million to pay patient expenses.

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