Ray Glass lll

Lil Ray Needs a Transplant and His Family Needs Your Help!

My grandson, Ray Glass III was born in March, 2014. Almost immediately the doctors noticed a problem. Ray has had multiple surgeries, procedures, tests and has been in the hospital for months on end. Ray had one kidney fail and has lost his other kidney to kidney disease. He will be placed on the transplant list as soon as he has gained the weight he needs to be eligible, which the doctors believe will be in six months. In the meantime, dialysis will keep him alive until he can get a transplant. The amazing thing about this little fighter is that he continues to smile through his fight.

Katie Fox, Ray’s mom works 60 hours a week, coaches her daughters baseball team, takes her older son to his practices and games while running to the hospital and keeping up with Ray’s medical needs. Needless to say she is run ragged with all of this; yet she keeps a smile on her face and a kind word for everyone is always heard coming from her lips. Ray Glass 2nd works full time on the road building silos. When he is able to be home, he is splitting his time with the two children at home, the hospital, and trying to give Katie a minute to herself. The children miss their brother so much when he is away at the hospital they cry for him to come home.

Transplants are life saving but financially draining. Even with insurance, there are many expenses not covered such as co-pays, caregivers, travel for pre and post-transplant medical visits and the costly anti-rejection medications that Ray will have to take for the rest of his life.

To help with the financial burden of Ray’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in his 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, are held by Help Hope Live in the Great Lakes Kidney Transplant Fund, and are administered by Help Hope Live for transplant-related expenses only. Please consider making a contribution to support Ray’s fight.

Please repost this appeal and visit Ray’s Help Hope Live webpage for updates and information on fundraising activities. Thank you for your prayers, support and generosity thus far. Please know that your contribution counts. On behalf of Lil Ray and his family, we thank you in advance for your kind consideration.

With sincere gratitude,

Kathy Davis, [email protected]