This an emergency announcement! It has been authorized by Rootsweb and the MSGenWeb Project AnnieG Jefferson/Claiborne CC ----- Original Message ----- From: Bosque Lover To: TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: [TXGEN] Urgent Request/emergency Please pass this on--this is Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net> Bettie <>< ------------------- With the wide circulation we can reach through a mail list, I wondered if you would please ask the people on the list to do anything they might can do to contact their local hospitals, news agencies or any other contact to alert them that if we do not find an A+ liver for my son within the next 24-48 hours, he will be gone. He is presently in the Surgical Intensive Care unit at Methodist Hospital in Houston and we have more than one plane ready to fly ANYWHERE in the country to pick up a liver and transport it or to transport my son to anyplace in the country where he might be transplanted. Our last hope and prayer is that someone that might be in a position or know someone that can help. This is my only son. As most know, my husband is also not expected to make it more than a few weeks or months and this is my only family. I simply must do what I can. We have already tried to get something on CNN, the AP, local TV, etc. but in a large place like Houston, I am afraid this is just another ho-hum story. The reason it would help to get to local hospitals around the country is because there are many possible organs that become available that are never used because the local surgeons will not harvest them unless there is the possibility they will be paid. I know that Larry Hagman, the TV star, got his liver because he paid to have it harvested. I am more than willing to pay the expenses of any local hospital that can help. As much as I hate to put my home phone on the WWW, I will do that and more to save my only child. My number is 713-523-3210. Any doctor that wants to talk to his doctor (Dr. Joseph Varon) can contact him either through the hospital intensive care at 713-790-6804 or through his answering service at 713-669-1670 Thanks, Nola ==== TXGEN Mailing List ==== The TXGEN-L/TXGEN-D mailing list is for announcements and the discussion of issues concerning the volunteers of The TXGenWeb Project. This is NOT the proper list for posting genealogical research queries.