Meitta Teage

Meitta Teage is a 35-year-old woman who is very ill. After six years of a mass sitting on her right adrenal gland, the struggle of uncontrolled blood pressure, diabetes, and congestive heart failure has led to her only hope for survival – the need for a heart and kidney transplant. Meitta is one of the most positive people you could ever hope to meet and she needs our help. The cost of a transplant is astronomical.

Meitta grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and studied Cosmetology at the Riverside Hairstyling Academy. She is a single mother of two children, ages 18 and 14. She was employed by EverHome Mortgage Company in 2010 until a company merger layoff in May 2014. Meitta started a janitorial business (J-n-M SparCleaning Service), but due to health problems could not continue to pursue her business.

In June 2014, she was hospitalized with congestive heart failure (CHF). Determined to remain financially stable despite her illness, Meitta sold cookies, brownies, and other various sweets around the city. In December 2015, she worked part-time at the Kangaroo Gas Station to keep from losing her transportation and provide for her family. Again, she was hospitalized with CHF. At that time, she applied for disability and has been denied several times. Resolved to succeed, she continued to work two part-time jobs but was forced to stop working due her heart failure. Finally, the surgeon decided to surgically remove the mass off her right adrenal gland, but after six years, the damage to her heart and kidneys was irreversible.

Family and friends are committed to supporting Meitta and pray that she will soon receive the “gift of life.” However, funding this lifesaving transplant is a monumental task. Even with existing medical insurance, this procedure is not funded. In addition to the surgery itself, there are sizable expenses including relocation to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville for a two-month period, copays, lab fees, and post-transplant medications costing up to $1,200 a month. This presents a challenge Meitta cannot meet alone.

To help with the financial burden of Meitta’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in her honor has been established with Help Hope Live, 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 to the full extent allowed by law, are held by Help Hope Live in the Southeast Heart/Kidney Transplant Fund, and are administered by Help Hope Live for transplant related expenses only.

For credit card contributions, please select the “Donate Now” button on this page or call 800.642.8399. Or:

Make checks payable to:
Help Hope Live

Note in memo section
In honor of Meitta Teage

Please send to:
Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center
100 Matsonford Road, Suite 100
Radnor, PA 19087

Your support is critical to the overall success of Meitta’s struggle. Please know that your contribution counts. On behalf of Meitta and her family, we humbly thank you for your kind consideration.