Need $/care post Transplant!
Donation protected
PLEASE KEEP DONATING!!! I STILL NEED $6,000. I can't wait to start a new year with a new kidney and a new Life.
My name is Charda Hastings. I was born and raised in Ballard and
graduated from Ballard High School with honors.
I have lived in the Laurelhurst community for going on 16 years.
I suffer from polycystic kidney and liver disease (PKD) and have been on dialysis for 10 years.
The disease is hereditary.
My grandmother died with PKD before there was dialysis. My mom became ill with kidney failure in 1971 when I was 5 years old.
My mother went on one of the first kidney machines, which was
inside a Sears toolbox.
At the age of 10 years old my mom taught me to sterilize and administer dialysis to her. I took care of her
and supported us with 3 paper routes. I took care of her until she
died when I was 22 years old.
I had many kidney infections when I was young. So the doctor
that was caring for my mom said let's test Charda for PKD. When I turned 18 years old, I started having high blood pressure problems. At 38 years old, my kidneys failed and I had to go on dialysis or die.
A Kidney Transplant is my ultimate goal. I need help to raise at least $8400 for Kidney Transplant After
Care.
Please help me have a chance to have this transplant. I'm so looking forward to a new year and a new life.
Donate it's the right thing to do!!!
Thank you so much.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
The rate for a care giver is $25.00 per hour. The University of Washington Hospital requires that I have a caregiver for 24 hrs per day for 3 weeks post transplant. Just the cost of caregiver is
$8,400.00, which I do not have. So I have decided to offer
instead a flat fee of $5,000 and would negotiate time for
caregiver to keep their own lives going by having some time to go
home, as long as they can be reached via cell.
Why do I need to ask for help? I have Medicare because I am on dialysis. We fought for this many years ago for the dialysis patients. If you have Medicare, you may not apply for the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Medicare will not cover the expense of a caregiver for 3 weeks around the clock.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
My caregiver will have to shop/make meals for me and make sure they are available to take me at a moment’s notice to the University of Washington Hospital. I also am including feeding said caregiver. I also know that there will be extra expenses, such as meds post transplant that will not be covered, which I will have to pay for out of pocket. Plan on paying for parking for each visit, which if I go in every morning for blood work will be expensive. Other items I have to purchase, for example are gloves, masks, infection control gowns, and wound care supplies and lots of Purell. I think this is just the very bare necessities I will need.
Unfortunately, I have many other illnesses besides kidney failure,
such as my patellar tendon reruptured 3 days post surgical repair and so i am in a wheel chair now for the rest of my life. Fibromyalgia, which I was diagnosed with in 1992. So because of the damage from Fibromyalgia and dialysis treatment, I have lived with severe chronic pain on a daily basis since 1992. One side effect of dialysis is neuropathy. Neuropathy is a very painful illness that affects your nerve endings. Unfortunately, if proper infection control is not followed, patients are at risk. I happened to get a very bad case of Van co-resistant staph infection in my blood stream.
I lost my lower left leg and foot and almost all of my fingers. I almost lost my life.
I was unconscious for 8-12 weeks.i Dialysis is very hard on your body. When I started dialysis I was 38 years old. I was told once by a doctor that one dialysis treatment of 4-5 hours is equivalent to running in a marathon. I have never ran a marathon but I can attest that I feel as if I have run many miles post dialysis every treatment. Dialysis is completely exhausting and after being on it for 10 years, I can assure you I no longer have quality of life. I come home after dialysis and I go to bed and I sleep until the next morning to recover even then I need the following day to just rest and I take a couple more naps. By the next dialysis day, I feel like I might recover but now it's time for dialysis again. So I start over.
Asking for help is not who I am. I was raised to work and take care of myself. But this is bigger than me and I need help if I want to live. AND I WANT TO LIVE.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
Written
and edited by: Beverly Hawkins.
My name is Charda Hastings. I was born and raised in Ballard and
graduated from Ballard High School with honors.
I have lived in the Laurelhurst community for going on 16 years.
I suffer from polycystic kidney and liver disease (PKD) and have been on dialysis for 10 years.
The disease is hereditary.
My grandmother died with PKD before there was dialysis. My mom became ill with kidney failure in 1971 when I was 5 years old.
My mother went on one of the first kidney machines, which was
inside a Sears toolbox.
At the age of 10 years old my mom taught me to sterilize and administer dialysis to her. I took care of her
and supported us with 3 paper routes. I took care of her until she
died when I was 22 years old.
I had many kidney infections when I was young. So the doctor
that was caring for my mom said let's test Charda for PKD. When I turned 18 years old, I started having high blood pressure problems. At 38 years old, my kidneys failed and I had to go on dialysis or die.
A Kidney Transplant is my ultimate goal. I need help to raise at least $8400 for Kidney Transplant After
Care.
Please help me have a chance to have this transplant. I'm so looking forward to a new year and a new life.
Donate it's the right thing to do!!!
Thank you so much.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
The rate for a care giver is $25.00 per hour. The University of Washington Hospital requires that I have a caregiver for 24 hrs per day for 3 weeks post transplant. Just the cost of caregiver is
$8,400.00, which I do not have. So I have decided to offer
instead a flat fee of $5,000 and would negotiate time for
caregiver to keep their own lives going by having some time to go
home, as long as they can be reached via cell.
Why do I need to ask for help? I have Medicare because I am on dialysis. We fought for this many years ago for the dialysis patients. If you have Medicare, you may not apply for the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Medicare will not cover the expense of a caregiver for 3 weeks around the clock.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
My caregiver will have to shop/make meals for me and make sure they are available to take me at a moment’s notice to the University of Washington Hospital. I also am including feeding said caregiver. I also know that there will be extra expenses, such as meds post transplant that will not be covered, which I will have to pay for out of pocket. Plan on paying for parking for each visit, which if I go in every morning for blood work will be expensive. Other items I have to purchase, for example are gloves, masks, infection control gowns, and wound care supplies and lots of Purell. I think this is just the very bare necessities I will need.
Unfortunately, I have many other illnesses besides kidney failure,
such as my patellar tendon reruptured 3 days post surgical repair and so i am in a wheel chair now for the rest of my life. Fibromyalgia, which I was diagnosed with in 1992. So because of the damage from Fibromyalgia and dialysis treatment, I have lived with severe chronic pain on a daily basis since 1992. One side effect of dialysis is neuropathy. Neuropathy is a very painful illness that affects your nerve endings. Unfortunately, if proper infection control is not followed, patients are at risk. I happened to get a very bad case of Van co-resistant staph infection in my blood stream.
I lost my lower left leg and foot and almost all of my fingers. I almost lost my life.
I was unconscious for 8-12 weeks.i Dialysis is very hard on your body. When I started dialysis I was 38 years old. I was told once by a doctor that one dialysis treatment of 4-5 hours is equivalent to running in a marathon. I have never ran a marathon but I can attest that I feel as if I have run many miles post dialysis every treatment. Dialysis is completely exhausting and after being on it for 10 years, I can assure you I no longer have quality of life. I come home after dialysis and I go to bed and I sleep until the next morning to recover even then I need the following day to just rest and I take a couple more naps. By the next dialysis day, I feel like I might recover but now it's time for dialysis again. So I start over.
Asking for help is not who I am. I was raised to work and take care of myself. But this is bigger than me and I need help if I want to live. AND I WANT TO LIVE.
http://www.gofundme.com/2a7xt0
Written
and edited by: Beverly Hawkins.
Organizer
Charda M Hastings
Organizer
