Help me donate a kidney!
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I am a Senior Reporter with Windy City Times-an LGBT publication based here in Chicago.
In December 2015, I read a story that my paper published concerning one of our readers LV Jordan (pictured right) who is in need of a kidney transplant.
LV and her beloved partner Challis were one of the first couples to wed after marriage equality became legal.
Challis passed away a few months later and LV was in the midst of trying to pick up her life from that devastating loss and resume her work for the community when she became ill.
LV is a fierce advocate, sweet and genuinely loving.
Her story struck me in particular because I was trying to do much of the same in 2015 after a divorce from my wife of four years that left me emotionally shattered.
LV deserves the same chance I recieved to turn loss into victory. I dont see giving one extraneous kidney to her as too high of a price to pay for that life.
I have been through all the candidate interviews with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My blood type is compatable with hers and there are no antibodies which concern the clinic.
I now need to travel to Rochester for three days of rigorous physical and psychological testing to make sure I am a good match.
The dates are April 11, 2016- April 13, 2016.
While insurance will cover the procedures, they will not cover travel and hotel expenses.
So I am reaching out to you generous folks to help cover that.
It breaks down like this:
Round trip driving to Rochester from Chicago: 702 miles. My car will do 300 on a full tank and if gas prices hold their current average of $1.80 then $60-70 in travel.
The hotel near the clinic is $93 average-per-night for four nights beginning Sunday evening (tests start early Monday and I'll need a good nights sleep) through Wednesday evening for a total of $372.00
I estimate food costs at $30-per-day for three days at $90.
TOTAL: $522.00
The remaining $78 is for the unexpected on the drive like a tire blow out.
Please help me give a wonderful woman a chance at life.
Of course there is no gurantee that the testing will confirm I am a good match but I have to try!
The original article is here:
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/LV-Jordan-still-seeks-kidney-donor/53793.html
Thank you all for your help! Please feel free to get in touch if there are any questions and share as much as you can,
If I am compatible, I am going to do this for her. After all, as I have discovered through my work as a journalist, the world can be changed even one person at a time.
Thank you.
Gretchen Rachel Hammond
In December 2015, I read a story that my paper published concerning one of our readers LV Jordan (pictured right) who is in need of a kidney transplant.
LV and her beloved partner Challis were one of the first couples to wed after marriage equality became legal.
Challis passed away a few months later and LV was in the midst of trying to pick up her life from that devastating loss and resume her work for the community when she became ill.
LV is a fierce advocate, sweet and genuinely loving.
Her story struck me in particular because I was trying to do much of the same in 2015 after a divorce from my wife of four years that left me emotionally shattered.
LV deserves the same chance I recieved to turn loss into victory. I dont see giving one extraneous kidney to her as too high of a price to pay for that life.
I have been through all the candidate interviews with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My blood type is compatable with hers and there are no antibodies which concern the clinic.
I now need to travel to Rochester for three days of rigorous physical and psychological testing to make sure I am a good match.
The dates are April 11, 2016- April 13, 2016.
While insurance will cover the procedures, they will not cover travel and hotel expenses.
So I am reaching out to you generous folks to help cover that.
It breaks down like this:
Round trip driving to Rochester from Chicago: 702 miles. My car will do 300 on a full tank and if gas prices hold their current average of $1.80 then $60-70 in travel.
The hotel near the clinic is $93 average-per-night for four nights beginning Sunday evening (tests start early Monday and I'll need a good nights sleep) through Wednesday evening for a total of $372.00
I estimate food costs at $30-per-day for three days at $90.
TOTAL: $522.00
The remaining $78 is for the unexpected on the drive like a tire blow out.
Please help me give a wonderful woman a chance at life.
Of course there is no gurantee that the testing will confirm I am a good match but I have to try!
The original article is here:
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/LV-Jordan-still-seeks-kidney-donor/53793.html
Thank you all for your help! Please feel free to get in touch if there are any questions and share as much as you can,
If I am compatible, I am going to do this for her. After all, as I have discovered through my work as a journalist, the world can be changed even one person at a time.
Thank you.
Gretchen Rachel Hammond
Organizer
Gretchen Rachel Hammond
Organizer
Chicago, IL