--- Bosque Lover <nana321@earthlink.net> wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:28:10 -0600 > From: Bosque Lover <nana321@earthlink.net> > Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Urgent Request/emergency > To: USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com > > 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 > > > > > > ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== > To search the mail list archives, go to > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-SW > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/