Patrick Clarence Pennington

West Mansfield, OH

Great Lakes Transplant Fund

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My name is Patrick and I have been a Paramedic for the last 28 years.

I have been battling Pulmonary Fibrosis for the last two and a half years and then was hospitalized for Covid pneumonia last January. Covid left irreparable damage to my lungs. I was told I need a lung transplant to live any quality of life. Pulmonary Fibrosis is a lung disease that results in stiffened lungs making it hard for me to breathe. There is not cure. I am asking family and friends to join me in this fundraising for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to assist with critical expenses including lodging for possibly up to 3 months after the transplant.

I have dedicated 28 years of my life to prehospital medical care. This was my childhood dream and my pleasure as an adult. My cherished accomplishment has been as a husband of 26 years, father to three wonderful children and grandfather to three awesome grandkids. I always continue to strive to be the best at whatever I’m doing. I have worked up till the last six months. The damage to my lungs worsened and my shortness of breath increased finally andI became unable to continue working.

I have health insurance but many transplant expenses are minimally covered or not at all. My monthly cost after surgery will increase with the new anti-rejections medication I will take for the life of my new lungs.

Donations to Help Hope Live can help ease the financial burden of a transplant and allow me to focus on a healthy recovery and a long life ahead with my wife, children, grandkids and family.

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Family and friends of Patrick Pennington are raising money for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to fund uninsured medical expenses associated with transplantation.

Patrick has chosen to fundraise for Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility for contributors. Contributors can be sure donations will be used to pay or reimburse medical and related expenses. To make a tax-deductible donation to this fundraising campaign, click on the Give button.

For more information, please contact Help Hope Live at 800.642.8399.

Thank you for your support!

October 10, 2023

It has been a little over a year since my double lung transplant. It has been a rough busy past year of testing, labs, hospital admissions, doctor appointments and driving back and forth to all of those events. None would of been possible without the best caregiver a person could ask for in life, my wife Tammy. She has been my guardian angel and has worked overtime looking out for my best interests when I couldn't do so. I will never be able to repay her for all that she has done for me.

As of today October 10th, 2023, I am fighting weight loss, and kidney failure. They both are being overseen by appropriate physician for care. I finally finished Cardio/Pulmonary rehab. between all the hospital admissions, doctor appointments and all the set backs it took longer then usual. I kept pushing forward sometimes slowly but I didn't quit even when I wanted to. I now do it all at home.

Even with all I have gone through I wouldn't trade it for anything. I have a second chance to live life. A better quality life than I had ever had prior to transplant. More updates to come.

January 28, 2023

I APOLOGIZE FOR THE UNEXCUSABLE LATENESS OF THIS UPDATE ON MY HEALTH AND EVENTS WITH MY PULMONARY FIBROSIS.IHAD THREE OF "THE CALL" BEING DRY RUNS. ON THE FORTH "CALL" THE DOCTORS AT OSU TRANSPLANT TEAM FOUND A MATCH FOR ME. ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2022 I WAS BLESSED WITH A DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT.. THE TRANSPLANT WENT WELL BUT I STILL SPENT FOUR MONTHS PLUS IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF SECONDARY PROBLEMS I AM IN PULMONARY RESPIRATORY RG TTO BUDGET AND REHAB AT THIS MOMEN.T I AMALSO TRYING TO REGULATE MY MEDICINES AS TTHEY ARE STILL ADJUSTING THEM FOR THERAPUTIC PERFORMANCE.

September 24, 2022

Well, got my fingers crossed received my fifth call tonight for transplant. Hopefully this will be the one.

September 13, 2022

Today was still part of that rollercoaster ride. I was called in yesterday afternoon for another possible organ donation for my double lung transplant. This is call number 4 and again it ended up being a "dry run". My emotions have been a whirlwind. My family have been beside me and we try to stay strong together. All I can think of on these dry runs is the family and friends that have lost someone special. That someone special was willing to give a stranger a chance. I pray for every one of those organ donors who give selflessly. They give hope, love and life to someone else.

September 13, 2022

I know I’m not very good at updating like I should. I honestly can say that it is never dull. You always feel overwhelmed but you don’t stop because you want to feel better. The last month or two has been a roller coaster ride. Today I am back at hospital for the fourth time for a transplant. I’m praying for the donors generosity and for their family. I pray for God to continue to give my family strength in this stressful time. Though this is the fourth trip here, it hasn’t changed the emotions. The wait, the fear and the anxiety are all there and real. There is also the hope that this is the one. The one that will give me my lungs new life so that I may live life.

May 25, 2022

Finally got started on pulmonary rehab. Slow process when compared to prior sessions. They also have me on oxygen via nasal cannula during exertion and I also wear at night. I trying to adjust to having to have oxygen with me where ever I go.

January 5, 2022

Just a quick update on what has been happening up till today. The doctors have put me on oxygen for exertion. Normally the oxygen for carbon dioxide happens flawlessly in healthy lungs, keeping up with demand. The damage done in my lungs is hindering this process causing increased shortness of breath. I also only have one more required test before being put on the transplant list.

December 13, 2021

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October 5, 2022

We love you and Tammy so much.

Bill and Michelle Zigarevich

January 17, 2022

Pat, on behalf of the members of IAEP Local R7-11, please get well soon!

James Griffith

December 15, 2021

Love you, Pat ❤

Samantha Manns

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Radnor, PA 19087

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