Please pass this on--this is Nola Duffy <nduffy(a)patch.net>
Bettie <><
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With the wide circulation we can reach through a mail list, I wondered
if you would please ask the people on the list
to do anything they might can do to contact their local hospitals, news
agencies or any other contact to alert them that
if we do not find an A+ liver for my son within the next 24-48 hours, he
will be gone. He is presently in the Surgical
Intensive Care unit at Methodist Hospital in Houston and we have more
than one plane ready to fly ANYWHERE in the country
to pick up a liver and transport it or to transport my son to anyplace
in the country where he might be transplanted.
Our last hope and prayer is that someone that might be in a position
or know someone that can help. This is my only
son. As most know, my husband is also not expected to make it more than
a few weeks or months and this is my only family.
I simply must do what I can. We have already tried to get something on
CNN, the AP, local TV, etc. but in a large place
like Houston, I am afraid this is just another ho-hum story.
The reason it would help to get to local hospitals around the country
is because there are many possible organs that
become available that are never used because the local surgeons will not
harvest them unless there is the possibility they
will be paid. I know that Larry Hagman, the TV star, got his liver
because he paid to have it harvested. I am more than
willing to pay the expenses of any local hospital that can help.
As much as I hate to put my home phone on the WWW, I will do that and
more to save my only child. My number is
713-523-3210. Any doctor that wants to talk to his doctor (Dr. Joseph
Varon) can contact him either through the hospital
intensive care at 713-790-6804 or through his answering service at
713-669-1670
Thanks,
Nola