John Stamos From "Full House" Gives Back

                        

 

 

August 8, 2013

John Stamos isn’t just helping people find a love for Oikos Greek yogurt, but he’s helping others find hope.

 

In a story from US Weekly on August 7, Stamos revealed that he will answer a 19-year-old’s request while she battles a serious bacterial infection.

Stamos will take 19-year-old Kaitlyn Dubrow to Disneyland after her family and she requested to meet the “Full House” star.

 

He snapped a picture and sent it through Twitter of himself and Dubrow posing next to her hospital bed at UC Irvine Medical Center in California.

 

“I'm ONLY doing this cause they asked. I said no press. but this story is a must read- plus me and katie have a date to Disneyland,” he wrote on Instagram Dubrow was diagnosed with meningococcemia in February 2012, which is a serious bacterial infection linked to meningitis that spreads through the bloodstream.

She went to the hospital after she woke up with a splitting headache.
The infection spread and cut off circulation to her limbs. She has undergone about a dozen surgeries which have left her without arms or legs.

“She ministers to me, it’s incredible,” her father Don said in a New York Daily News article. “She’s so upbeat. She gives all of us so much hope.”

 

Her family started a fundraiser to take care of medical expenses and costs of rehabilitation once doctors can make sure she is stable. The effort raised more than $75,000 on Kickstarter but continues to grow on another website that her family created.