Your help is greatly appreciated. Send Donations for the
Billy Mac Fund to:
Banknorth Massachusetts
280 Main Street
Groveland, MA 01834
Make checks payable:
The Billy Mac Fund - Banknorth
** Deposits can be made
at any Banknorth
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Thank You for your interest in making a
donation to the Billy Mac Fund
The Billy Mac Fund has been created to assist in the
progress of Bill MacDonald after a life altering accident resulting in
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). You can make a difference. Your kindness
and generous gift is greatly appreciated. The MacDonald Family
"We can do no great things - only small things with great love."
Mother Teresa
"Hope grows as we pass along love and help to one another".
How many people have Spinal Cord Injury? Who are they?
Approximately 450,000 people live with SCI in the US.
There are about 10,000 new SCI's every year; the majority of them
(82%) involve males between the ages of 16-30. These injuries result from
Work related accidents, motor vehicle accidents (36%), violence (28.9%),
or falls (21.2%). Quadriplegia is slightly more common than paraplegia.
Spinal Cord Injury has different levels of severity.
Bill's injury is of the greatest severity. He is high quadriplegia with a C4 injury complete. This creates the highest difficulty in daily living as well as the highest level of expenses involved. See the diagram below in order to understand the necessity for the Billy Mac Fund and your generous donation:
Average Yearly Expenses
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Severity of Injury
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First Year
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Each Subsequent Year
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High Quadriplegia
(C1-C4)
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$710, 275
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$127, 227
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Low Quadriplegia (C5-C8)
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$458,666
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$52,114
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Paraplegia
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$259,531
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$26,410
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Incomplete Motor Function at any level
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$209,324
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$14,670
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