October 25, 2016

Good morning people! I have completed all the stuff I needed to do to be on the transplant list at UNC! Come on out next week and help us celebrate at Chick-fil-a! And as always if you can’t join us feel free to stop by my fundraiser page and leave a little something (helphopelive.org

October 11, 2016

It is official our next event is with Chick-Fil-A on Hillsborough Road in Durham on November 2nd.! Please save the date and we will post more details as soon as we get them.

October 18, 2016

Hello friends and family! I thought I would give you guys a break after hitting it so hard for our first fundraiser. For the next one we will be working with Chick-Fil-A! I promise to give you plenty of notice for that one. We are also planning an online auction so if you have some sort of talent that you think people would be interested in experiencing please let me know. So far we have people donating financial advisory sessions, a home cooked dinner, from scratch cookies and much more! As always thanks and feel free to head over to my Help Hope Live page (helphopelive.org and make a donation. Have a great day!

September 26, 2016

Our fundraiser went really well. Thank you all for the support!

September 26, 2016

Today is the day! Come out to BW3 today, show a copy of the ticket, and 10% of your bill will be donated to our fundraiser. Remember if you can’t make it you are free to make your own wings and donate at our page. I look forward to seeing a lot of you tonight at 7:00PM! helphopelive.org

September 27, 2016

Good morning friends and family! One week from right now you will be waking up with orange lips and a deep sense of satisfaction knowing that you helped me. Remember next Wednesday to print out your golden ticket and give it to your server at BW3. Miranda and I are eating dinner at BW3 at 7:00PM and we would love for you to join us. If you can’t come you are welcome to go to my fundraiser page and donate what you would have spent 😉

September 14, 2016

Good morning people and happy Sunday! We are about a week and a half away from our first fundraiser at BW3 and so far the response has been great! Remember to come out at some point on 9/21, show your ticket to your server and enjoy some wings (or burgers, or a sandwich, whatever). You must give them a ticket for it to count. Oh and if you want some company Mandy and I will be having dinner at 7:00PM so please come join us!

September 14, 2016

Our first fundraiser is set! Come by BW3 in Durham on September 21, give them the ticket for Randy’s event, and 10% of your bill we be donate.

August 22, 2016

Good Sunday everybody! Friday I got to spend the entire day at UNC doing all of the heart testing that is required for me to be on the transplant list. They did not make me check in to the hospital so I am assuming that nothing is too bad with my heart. It feels good to be one step closer to getting my transplant.

For you folks in the Durham area please save September 21 on your calendars because it looks like that is the date we will be doing a fundraiser at the BW3 by South Point Mall. Details coming soon.

Tomorrow is the official start to my new semester at WCU. 4 semesters down and 3 to go!

Again I want to thank you guys for all the love and support I have received. For those of you who have not sent love and support what the heck are you waiting for??!!??

Randy.

August 12, 2016

So I came in to some not so good news today folks. It turns out my blood is not getting as clean as it needs to be after treatment (dialysis). How clean my blood is affects (effects?) how I feel and my overall health. The way they want to improve my numbers is by using a larger dialyser (no big deal) and by sticking EVEN LARGER NEEDLES IN MY ARM!!! If I don’t agree then they could tell my transplant doctors and that could come across as me not being complaint with could make them think twice about giving me a new kidney.

So bye-bye to Mr. Stabby and hello to Mr. Super Stabby! Happy Thursday!

August 6, 2016

We have raised $1,100 in 2 days! You guys are fantastic! It looks like we are going to have a beer and burgers event next month at a local business. As soon as we work out the details I will let all of you know.

Thank you so much for the love!

August 4, 2016

Hello friends! As most of you probably know I have been on dialysis for the last 2.5 years and as much fun as it has been it is time for a change. My best friend in the whole wide world Damon Thompson has decided to try to give me one of his kidneys for transplant next summer. I am humbled by his graciousness and I am looking forward to this next chapter in my life.

The cost of this little surgery is about $256,000 and I am fortunate that insurance will pay about 80% of it. As far as the rest we have decided to do a fundraiser through HelpHOPELive. HelpHOPELive (HHL) is a 5013C organization that will be handling all the money raised and we will submit the medical bills to them for payment from the fundraiser funds. This helps me avoid any problems with the IRS.

If you have the means to help me with this endeavor then please do and know that it will be greatly appreciated. In the future we plan to do events like an online auction to raise additional funds and to have some fun.

Thank you for taking the time to read this long damn post.

Randy.

PS I have a Facebook fundraiser page- www.facebook.com

and a page at Help Hope Live- helphopelive.org