The following was posted on one of my favorite message boards. Please consider helping if you are able.
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(Please feel free to copy/paste this post on other boards or in your own letters. Please be sure to include a pre-addressed envelope with any letters to the Kennesaw, GA address below. - Thanks! )I am writing to solicit your help in providing hope to Ken Williams, along-time friend and colleague, and his wife Lisa. They are working hard right now, along with their three teenage sons, to raise funds for a heart transplant that will save her life.
After twelve years of living with cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes her heart to progressively weaken over time, Lisa’s life has become very difficult. A heart transplant offers important hope to save her life, and she is listed for the procedure at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Ken and Lisa have medical insurance, but because of the tremendous expense involved they must still raise $100,000 for her portion of the transplant-related expenses. This amount includes a lifetime of anti-rejection medications, biopsies, lab tests, physicians’ fees, and hospitalizations.
That is why I am asking for you to join those of us who are helping.
The National Foundation for Transplants (NFT), a non-profit organization with over 20 years assisting the transplant community, is working with us to develop and administrate fund-raising efforts on her behalf. A campaign honoring Lisa has been organized her in Atlanta, and will enable NFT to pay for the care she must have to live a full and productive life.
You can make a difference with your generosity to ensure that Lisa receives this “second chance at life”. Your donation is greatly appreciated and will help provide the support that is now desperately needed.
You may directly donate in one of two ways...
1. Please make your check payable to “National Foundation for Transplants”, and (this is very important) with the notation “In honor of Lisa Williams” on the memo line. Send it to...
National Foundation for Transplants
P.O. Box 440232
Kennesaw, GA 301602. Go to www.transplants.org, click on “Campaign Donations”, and choose "Lisa Williams" to make a secure online donation.
It will take you less than five minute to help with the gift of life.
If you have any questions about NFT or the fundraising campaign for Lisa, please contact NFT at 800-489-3863. If you live in Atlanta and can assist directly in our campaigns, please PM me or call me at 770-329-8921 to get put to work!
Thank you for your consideration, and for your help.
Peace,
Kevin Eicher
aka "Grayson"
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Thank you for anything you are able to do to help.
Posted by beenie at October 8, 2004 08:05 PM