WHAT I LOVE DOING FOR OTHERS
I am an Advisor to the Board of Directors of the REST House for Women (https://restconnection.org/), in Quakertown, PA, a 501c3 organization, to help women in need of a fresh start, from an unfortunate relationship or other unexpected life circumstance.
In 20I9 I founded and run the Widows/Widowers Support Group of Bucks County (https://www.meetup.com/widows-widowers-support-group-of-bucks-county/?_cookie-check=KmwVwYEhwj1iMkO-) which has grown to more than 300 members. We meet twice weekly by Zoom and have periodic gatherings to support each other through our grief experiences.
My company, Funding4Flippers LLC (https://www.funding4flippers.com/), finances the purchase of distressed properties for renovation and then sale to young families so they can start and grow their families. It is very rewarding to see the faces of young couples purchase their first home.
I privately mentor young people to help them start, run and grow their fledgling businesses.
Also, I am in the process of setting up organizations and funding to provide low cost housing to Penn State University and University of Delaware for the next 50 to 100 years.
HOW A KIDNEY WILL GREATLY AFFECT MY LIFE
A kidney transplant will enable me to continue and grow the work I do for others as well as help me enjoy my life.
HOW YOU COULD HELP ME:
You can help me simply by sharing my story on social media. Sharing would be like throwing a life preserver into the water to save me from drowning. You wouldn’t even get wet. But you would be helping to save my life.
Persons interested in speaking directly with a living person about donating on my behalf (no commitment) can reach out the kidney donor interest button above.
You can also find out more info under, "considering kidney donation" via NKDO's
website
HERE. (https://www.nkdo.org/considering-kidney-donation.)
KIDNEY DONATION BASICS
A kidney transplant will restore my health and will allow me to live a normal life again. A kidney transplant will enable me to live a long healthy life and continue helping others.
Most people have two healthy kidneys but can live a normal active life with only one. For that reason, kidney transplants have become routine in saving lives of people with kidney disease. Kidney donors typically spend two days in the hospital and soon resume normal activities.
ABOUT KIDNEY DONATION
You do not need to be a match in order to donate a kidney for me. In fact, a direct donation likely would not be an optimal match for me. But, if you are healthy and eligible to donate, you could donate a kidney that would go to another person for whom you are a better match while giving me a “voucher” for a living kidney to be donated by someone else whose kidney would be a better match me (like a trade that benefits two or more kidney patients – each patient would receive a more optimally matched kidney). The National Kidney Registry has facilitated more than 5,000 such matching transplants.
Your voucher would be activated upon your donation. I would be prioritized to receive a living kidney in an upcoming transplant chain, typically within twelve weeks after your donation.
And, since each voucher donor starts or helps to complete a unique “kidney transplant chain,” I would receive a well-matched kidney, and your kidney would initiate a linked chain of compatible best-matching kidney transplants enabling two or three additional kidney patients to receive their own kidney transplants.
Read more about the Voucher Program
HERE.
(https://www.kidneyregistry.org/for-centers/voucher-program/)
For convenience you could donate near your home at one of about 100 kidney transplant centers nationwide affiliated with the National Kidney Registry.
To find a transplant center near you, see this list
HERE. (https://www.kidneytransplantcenters.org/)
