Pat Scruggs

Help make a difference in Pat’s life and help him get a kidney transplant.
My husband, Pat Scruggs has had end-stage renal disease for more than three years and is currently on dialysis. Unfortunately, Pat did not take his doctor seriously about his health and as a result, high blood pressure and diabetes led to his kidney failure. Pat’s doctors have informed him that a kidney transplant is his only chance for long-term survival.
Pat is funny, smart, giving, encouraging, full of wisdom, and does not compromise his beliefs in God. He is a blessing to me and many others. Pat and I are also caregivers for my Mother who requires our daily help. Even with his own health issues, Pat still helps with Mom and many others — he continues to place others before himself.
Fundraising for this life-saving transplant is a monumental task. Even with insurance, we will need to raise over $60,000 for uninsured expenses,long term care and anti-rejection medicine. While he is on the active waiting list at two hospitals, we needed to raise $10,000 to cover his first six months of post-transplant expenses. We reached that goal by the end of 2011 after only fundraising for six months! To God me the glory! It will take an additional $10,000 to $12,000 annually to cover his medical expenses that are not covered by his insurance. I am asking for your financial help for us to be able to support his transplant costs and for him to live a healthier, longer life.
To help with this financial burden, a fundraising campaign in Pat’s honor has been established with HelpHOPELive (formerly NTAF), a nonprofit organization that has been assisting the transplant community for nearly 30 years. All donations are tax- deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the South-Atlantic Kidney Transplant Fund. They will be administered by HelpHOPELive for transplant-related expenses only. Please consider making an end-of-year, tax –deductible contribution today.
Make checks payable to:
HelpHOPELive

Note in memo section:
In honor of Pat Scruggs

Please mail to:
HelpHOPELive

Two Radnor Corporate Center
100 Matsonford Road, Suite 100
Radnor, PA 19087

For credit card donations: Please call 800.642.9399 or select the “Donate Now” button.
Thank you for your prayers, for spreading the word about Pat’s HelpHOPELive fundraising campaign to your friends and for any donation you are able to make.
Dianna Scruggs
[email protected]
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and He shall direct thy paths.
Psalms28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
We are climbing this mountain one step at a time and beliving Pat’s gift will come! God has a perfect plan for our lives when we trust and obey Him. The word says, “I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”