Dear Family and Friends,
My sister and I are writing to you today to ask for your prayers and support for our brother, Joseph Ozoniak. As most of you know, he has been battling heart failure for the past thirteen years.
Since January 2011 he has had three major surgeries. The first took place at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC on January 21; Joseph had both mitral valve reconstruction and a Tri-Ad Tricuspid Annuloplasty ring procedure. Our brother’s weak heart was not able to benefit more than a few months from these procedures and in mid- May a pacemaker/defibrillator was implanted to assist his failing heart. At that time, doctors told Joseph that a heart transplant was his only hope for survival. On May 29, 2011 Joseph was fortunate enough to receive his heart transplant.
Updates (9)
December 20, 2024
As with most transplants complications happen. After surgery to break down kidney stones the kidney collapsed and I am now in need of a kidney transplant.
November 1, 2024
The life of a person who has had a transplant is not easy. Complications always arise. Recently I had to have surgery to remove large kidney stones, while blasting the stones to break them up, the surgeon hit the wall of my kidney and collapse the kidney, and from that day forward I have had to have dialysis to clean my blood. I am now on the kidney transplant list waiting to have a kidney transplant. The wait is 55 months in my area. I am on the list now a year. I really need a donor to come forth. November 2024.
