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My struggle with kidney disease started at the age of eight when I started getting really sick and was diagnosed with lupus nephritis. At the age of ten, I felt I was starting to get better when my mother started getting ill. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and lost her battle within a year. Without our mother, my brother and I were separated; I went to live with my Aunt and my brother went to live with my uncle. After completing grade school and high school, I received an academic scholarship to attend ASU. In Sep 2007, I was starting to get ill again and discovered that my kidneys had failed. It didn’t stop me, I continued to go to school and graduate from ASU with a degree in Family and Human Development with an Emphasis in Child Development. I’m now doing what I love and working as a Teacher at a Montessori school and I look forward to continuing living, learning, and teaching after transplant, but I need your help because transplants are very expensive.
Even with insurance, there are many transplant related costs that must be paid out of pocket including copays, caregiver expenses and the anti-rejection medications that I will have to take for the rest of my life. The medications alone can be several thousand a month.
To help with the financial burden of my uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in my honor has been established with HelpHOPELive, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax-deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the Southwest Kidney Transplant Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for transplant-related expenses only. Please consider making a contribution.
Please share my story with anyone you can. I would greatly appreciate any donation. My new kidney and I will love you forever. Thank you for your support!
Gratefully,
Blessy
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It cut my previous message off. I love you cousin and I pray that you get everything that you are asking for. I miss you guys. I actually stopped by uncle's a couple of months back and was going to knock on the door, but it was too many cars outside so I was scared LOL. I'm still at the same place so you guys can always visit and I will attempt to visit you guys really soon. I love you. Tell everyone I love them. You should still have my number my number never changed.
Lesley Aranda-Wyatt
Hey cousin I haven't seen you all in awhile
Lesley Aranda-Wyatt
It was really cool running into you. I will always cherish our baller days and I am happy to hear the transplant went well. It is nice to hear about what happened after our school days. I am so proud of all your endevours. Praying for the best! Take care Blessy. I will see you around :).
Darlene
From PUD to El Parque, from Tijuana to Last Chance... 13 years of friendship and you have always taught me to always take life in stride and to always be grateful. I am so happy for you amorphous! Here's to many more years of kare kare and bargain shopping. Love you!
Lindsay
Make checks payable to:
Help Hope Live
Note in memo:
In honor of Blessy Garcia
Mail to:
Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center
Suite 100
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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