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Here is a partial collection of photos of items that I have collected over the last 10 + years.
I must now auction them / sell them , to pay for the two ER visits, upcoming, surgeon visits, and eventual surgery.

If you feel like you can give any of this art a good home……please let me know and know that your purchase goes to getting me fixed right this time.

Surgery is now scheduled for this Monday in Gainesville, a specialist will be fixing an incarcerated / strangulated hernia. (that is if we can raise 50% of the total)

If you would like to contribute some of your own art to be auctioned / sold off to help with this fund…PLEASE send all Artistic contributions to

Gemstone and Bead
Attn: Jessica Boggs
1937 Military Trail Suite 1
West Palm Beach, FL. 33409

Please enclose a note in or on the box that says “Glow Joe’s Surgery Fund” as she is working on a few other separate funds right now, and this will help avoid confusion.

If you would like more info on how to help, please contact me here via PM or phone 928-458-6595

Or Jessica Boggs via e-mail entirebyfire@gmail.com

Thank you all for your love and support.

I have had 3 operations to my abdominal area in the past 5 years, they have all been associated with a hernia, or a failed repair from a previous operation associated with a hernia.
I have been experiencing severe pain from the area of the previous operation, so begrudgingly went to the Shands ER in Gainesville. (After calling a couple local surgeons that refused to see me BECAUSE I’ve been operated on in the same location three times and was told by all and more that the only place for help of this nature is Shands Teaching Hospital Gainesville)
I have been to the ER twice in the last week (last Monday and Friday) on Monday I was discharged (without pain meds) with a “Hernia” which THEY CHOSE not to operate on because it is “an elective operation that is not an Emergency”.
Funny that…in Arizona…2 years ago with the same complaint…..The ER operated on me immediately….oh yeah….in Arizona….I had Insurance…….big difference.

Friday I went back in (Surgical center told me it could help) I requested and MRI so they could at least look properly at the site of pain…..No…they discharged me with “Unknown Abdominal Pain”.

Today, I call the Surgical Center and am told that my case has gone “to review” and I could hear something back from them as early as this Friday.

All funds go to paying my 2 ER visits, upcoming Surgeons visits and the surgery, prescriptions, and associated medical bills from this “experience”.

It is my goal to raise the majority of these funds by selling my art glass collection and finding each piece a happy new home.

ANY funds left over when all the bills from this “experience” are paid, I will happily donate to Beads of Courage to help them carry on with their mission.

Thank you for your love and support.

Joe Imler
Owner: Glow Glass LLC
e:mail: sales@glowglass.com
Phone: 928-458-6595

Here is a blog written with a lotta love from Marcy Lamberson:

My buddy, Joe Imler (Glow Joe) needs surgery and to pay for it, he is selling off his marble and glass collection, while others are donating glass art/beads/cash to add to his fund.

Joe is a cool guy. His Glow Powders are used by soft glass artists as well as his new rods for boro workers. I’ve always loved glow in the dark items and Joe is the one who has brought it to our glass world.

Well bleeep it, he needs a little help from his friends. It’s time to put on your shopping hats or donating if you prefer and help get Joe out of his painful situation.

Hop on over to his website that he’s set up specifically for the surgery fund, http://www.lapissolaris.com and join in the fun. I’ve already bought one piece and I’m still debating over another.

And of course I had to show this one Lewis Wilson piece that just makes me drool. It’s out of my budget, (and my birthday is nowhere close by), so I thought I’d post it in case someone who can afford it, can scoop it up.

See you tomorrow for more creativity, inspiration and glass chat right here, http://www.studiomarcy.blogspot.com