Dear Friends and Family,

As many of you already know, several years ago I was diagnosed with end stage renal disease. For the past two years I have been on dialysis three days per week, four hours a day. This is keeping me alive. Though I am doing fairly well on this treatment, I am still unable to work. My doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville have told me that my only real chance at a long and healthy life is to receive a kidney transplant as soon as possible.

Due to the extraordinary expenses of transplantation, as well as my inability to work, funding this life-saving operation is a monumental task. Despite having Medicare, many of my medical needs are not covered and must be paid out-of-pocket. Some of these expenses are co-pays, deductibles, travel to and from the hospital, relocation at the time of transplant and I will be on a lifetime of anti-rejection medications. This presents a challenge I cannot meet alone and your help is desperately needed.