So right now we've only got 5 "reliable" (read: there everynight, on time, ready to rock, with stable connections) healers in Hamfist.  That's right, only five.

Garreth
Vulk
Katibug
Closer
Caliroll

In many circumstances and on a number of boss fights, we need no fewer than eight (8) to make it a smooth kill.  Of our "less reliable" healers, we have:

Alydis
Clos
Cisper (only recently due to university)

So basically, if the stars align and we butcher a holy goat we can expect to have a smooth raid.  Otherwise, we will be dragging our feet and praying to whatever gods might be listening that we can actually kill something on a given night.

Off-spec, limited-attendance, and alt healer options are also limited:

Luchs (T4 geared w/ some experience)
Turth (T4+ geared w/ some good experience)
Irnub (T4 geared w/ little healing experience)
Antiquite ON CORETWO or CISPER
Magieck
Warion (when LF1M isn't raiding)
Captnopants (when LF1M isn't raiding)

Basically, what I'm posting this for is this:

I'm begging that any guildie that is a qualified healer, that has run with us in the past, consider the option of helping out as often as they can.  We want to kill Illidan.  At our current pace and rate, we won't.  It's that simple.  At our current pace we cannot kill him.  We're losing so many healers and bleeding so much loot because of it, that it's going to become a festering boil of raid non-progression that will be hard to shed, without a little help from our guildies.

I know a number of people grow tired of healing, get sick of it, would rather do something else.  Grass is always greener, etc etc.  But please, those of you who have ever helped heal in a Hamfist raid and have extra time that you CAN spend helping us out while we're searching for about 1027994 more healers, we would really deeply appreciate the help.

So on a night that we're asking for more healers, and you see the call and you're dinking around on an alt - please give it a moment and think about possibly helping the 7th highest-progressed guild on the server get one step closer to Sunwell.  Because at our current speed, we'll never get there.

Thanks.