4 Time Kidney Transplant Survivor needs HELP
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My friend's friend Tracey was born deaf and is a 4 time kidney transplant survivor! She turned 56 on Valentine's Day.
Tracey is all alone and will have her house foreclosed on March 16.
On top of all, Tracey is back on dialysis and does not qualify for a 5th transplant. The house she lives in in Upstate New York will be foreclosed on March 16, due to taxes and Tracey has nowhere to go....Yes, the state would assist her finding an apartment but the problem is that Tracey has 6 small tea cup poodles as well as an old boxer and of course, the state would not allow her to bring any of her dogs! I firmly believe, the dogs are the only reason Tracey is still alive.
Despite her deafness, Tracey always has been a hard worker. She started volunteering at a hospital in Brooklyn as a teenager. After high school, she went to community college and graduated as a nurse's aid. Later, she also went to RIT (Rochester Institute for Technology, a college for the Deaf) where she graduated in June 1992 for photography and color labs (she also was on the honor roll 4 times and twice on the dean's list). The graduation was actually AFTER her first kidney transplant in June 1991. Tracey let nothing stop her. After graduation, she worked for 5 years at Hobby Lobby in the framing department.
Of course, her other transplants, as well as other surgeries (a total of 35) would disrupt her working continuously. She had to move back with her parents in 2008. Her parents supported her and at one point Tracey was able to live in a trailer (with her dogs of course), but her parents had to sell the trailer to help her brother, which turned out to be a mistake...her brother lied and stole a lot from everyone...
Tracey's dad passed away 2 years ago on her birthday and her mother 5 weeks after. Tracey's dad was a retired police officer from NYC as well as a lieutenant colonel in the army. The house Tracey was left in alone, has a mortgage too big for her to pay, as well as the taxes, since Tracey only receives a small SSI payment. She has spent the winter in one room of the house with an electric heater because she can not afford propane gas (although she had paid for a new propane heater last year in hopes to be able to sell the house).
I am hoping so much that enough money can be raised to allow Tracey to find a small house where she can live with her cute puppies!!!
Just don't know what else to do! Called newspapers and e-mailed TV stations but it seems the story isn't exciting enough to get help???
Tracey is all alone and will have her house foreclosed on March 16.
On top of all, Tracey is back on dialysis and does not qualify for a 5th transplant. The house she lives in in Upstate New York will be foreclosed on March 16, due to taxes and Tracey has nowhere to go....Yes, the state would assist her finding an apartment but the problem is that Tracey has 6 small tea cup poodles as well as an old boxer and of course, the state would not allow her to bring any of her dogs! I firmly believe, the dogs are the only reason Tracey is still alive.
Despite her deafness, Tracey always has been a hard worker. She started volunteering at a hospital in Brooklyn as a teenager. After high school, she went to community college and graduated as a nurse's aid. Later, she also went to RIT (Rochester Institute for Technology, a college for the Deaf) where she graduated in June 1992 for photography and color labs (she also was on the honor roll 4 times and twice on the dean's list). The graduation was actually AFTER her first kidney transplant in June 1991. Tracey let nothing stop her. After graduation, she worked for 5 years at Hobby Lobby in the framing department.
Of course, her other transplants, as well as other surgeries (a total of 35) would disrupt her working continuously. She had to move back with her parents in 2008. Her parents supported her and at one point Tracey was able to live in a trailer (with her dogs of course), but her parents had to sell the trailer to help her brother, which turned out to be a mistake...her brother lied and stole a lot from everyone...
Tracey's dad passed away 2 years ago on her birthday and her mother 5 weeks after. Tracey's dad was a retired police officer from NYC as well as a lieutenant colonel in the army. The house Tracey was left in alone, has a mortgage too big for her to pay, as well as the taxes, since Tracey only receives a small SSI payment. She has spent the winter in one room of the house with an electric heater because she can not afford propane gas (although she had paid for a new propane heater last year in hopes to be able to sell the house).
I am hoping so much that enough money can be raised to allow Tracey to find a small house where she can live with her cute puppies!!!
Just don't know what else to do! Called newspapers and e-mailed TV stations but it seems the story isn't exciting enough to get help???
Organizer and beneficiary
Jacie Glud
Organizer
Splendora, TX
Tracey Martin
Beneficiary