Cheryl and Denis Hall

15 years ago Denis Hall started his own business.. He wanted to offer an honest and reasonable priced
service to the people in his community, focusing on helping out our Senior citizens.
D.R. Halls LawnCare was born on this premise
Over the years he has not raised the price on services offered and many times would not charge
someone when they were struggling to make ends meet. In 2011, Denis joined the GreenCare for
Troops/SnowCare for Troops a program to help out our military with free lawn and snow needs.
Our Dad built a business he was proud of and that provided for himself and our Mom.
This all changed in a blink of an eye.
The road so far:
On February 27, 2019, we received a phone call that our dad was in the hospital. Our hearts stopped.
Our mom told us that he was having trouble breathing earlier in the week and had moments where he
could not move. They went to the doctors immediately, after many tests he was admitted to the
hospital. The tests showed that our dad had severe high blood pressure and that his kidneys were failing
but not just failing he was in End Stage Renal Failure and that would change my parents life forever. My
sister hopped on a plane the next day and flew from Colorado back home to Ohio. She knew what was
about to come next and the thought of not being with her family to help in any way possible, was killing
her inside.
The next several days were filled with teams of doctors coming in every hour to inform us of his status
and the plan. My dad had suffered 2 heart attacks that damaged both the left and right sides of his
heart. The kidneys were damaged in the process and now are not able to clean out his blood and
provide the necessary support for his body to survive. Our dad was placed on 8 different medications
while the doctors came up with a plan. After taking a biopsy of his kidneys, they determined he will not
only need heart surgery but will need a kidney transplant.
The Plan for the road ahead:
Our dad’s body needs to get stronger, currently his body will not handle a heart surgery. If the doctors
attempt to fix his heart he will die from the stress of the surgical trauma. The only way our dad’s body
can get stronger is with the hemodialysis that he has to completed 4 hours a day 3 times a week. Where
he sits in a chair and has his blood pumped out of his body through a machine to clean the toxins out
and back into his body. The machine acts like kidneys cleaning and filtering the blood.
The doctors will assess his status in a month and hopefully his body, after the benefits of the
hemodialysis doing for his body what his kidneys can not, hopefully he will be strong enough to tolerate
an angioplasty. If he can endure the next couple of months and he makes it through the heart surgery,
we look towards a new kidney. He will need a kidney transplant, which is also a hopeful plan. In the US,
according to the National Kidney Foundation:

● Over 3,000 new patients are added to the kidney waiting list each month. 

● 13 people die each day while waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant. 
● Every 14 minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant list.  
● In 2014, 4,761 patients died while waiting for a kidney transplant. Another, 3,668 people
became too sick to receive a kidney transplant. 

Our dad is a young 62 year old who has a wife, 2 daughters, a grandson, and wants to live to see future
grandkids. Our father owns his own lawn care business, and the sole provider. He is not a wealthy man
but he makes an honest living doing the hard blue collar labor that built this country. He will no longer
be able to work, he gets tired walking 25 feet to the bathroom, minimal stressful events raise his blood
pressure more which puts stress on his body. He can not currently work, and may not be able to work
again. He is a man who always provided for his family, and now that is taken from him. If he survives the
next couple months and the heart surgery is successful then we then have a possible, on average, 4
years of waiting for a transplant. In the meantime, our father will not be able to work.
Through all of this, the worry and anxiety of how to survive financially wears our parents down.
Cheryl, our mom is a giver she is always helping everyone . She believes in volunteering and has given
her time over the last 32 years to the kids in the North Olmsted school system. For the last 17 years, she
has donated her time to the North Olmsted Athletic Boosters in many ways. Her main position is
coordinating volunteers and running the Concession Stand at the high school. Our Dad has always
helped her behind the scene, for many years you would see him in the back of the concession stand
serving up Hot Dogs, moving the heavy items and helping out in many ways. If you know our Mom you
know she doesnt stop and if you ask her why she will tell you “its for the kids.”
Our Mom is unable to work at this time because she has to be the main caregiver for our dad,driving
him to Dialysis 3 times a week, managing and taking our dad to doctor appointments and making sure
he takes the countless medication as prescribed because with the diagnosis of End Stage Kidney Failure
there are times when it can cause mental confusion. So not only is our dad suffering with a 99%
blockage in his heart and End Stage Kidney Failure but he now has memory loss and confusion.

Prayers and good wishes are very appreciated.