Fundraiser for a kidney transplant
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Amado Management LLC is respectfully submitting a cry for help.
It is with a heavy heart that we submit this request for your help! One of our own, Sergio Cortes, is facing a life threatening illness! Sergio has been diagnosed with renal failure and he is running out of time! Without your help his chance for survival is minimal. His wife Mayra, who also works here at Amado Management LLC alongside him, is trying to raise as much money as they can to be prepared for the astronomical costs that await them. They must have at least $10,000 dollars in hand if he is fortunate enough to receive a liver transplant donor once his number comes up. If he does not, they will move on to the next candidate waiting in line.
We ask that you humbly reach into your monetary resources and give as much as you can! If 1,000 of you sent even $1, that right there is $1,000.00 dollars! We have faith and hope that our community, friends and family will not hesitate to assist this amazing family that has overcome tremendous obstacles, only to be faced with a health crisis! We would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation in anticipation of your generosity!
Amado Family and the Cortes Family thank you!
This is our story....
Sergio and I (Mayra) met for the first time in Colima Mexico, back in 2009 and soon thereafter became friends. One year later we married and in 2011, our first daughter, Ingrid was born. She was our motivation to get ahead in life! Trying to raise a family in Colima was not easy, our circumstances were difficult to say the least.
In 2013 we decided to come here to the United States being that I was a US citizen already. We assumed that because I was a US citizen, my child would automatically be considered a US citizen too but that was not the case. I so wanted her to be raised as a US citizen just like myself. Sergio did not even have a visa at the time so we were faced with the dilemma of what to do. I decided I needed to move to the Nogales border and work and establish my family! I had nowhere to live but my sister-in-law in Nogales Son. MX, who allowed us to reside in her grandmother’s house for 3 months and for that I am eternally grateful.
I then started on my “immigration” journey for my family. I decided I would not return to Colima and that I would stay and dedicate myself to establishing residency for my husband and for my daughter Ingrid. I was discouraged by so many, telling me this was IMPOSSIBLE but I would not give up!
I soon found employment in the US, praise God, we rented our own home in Nogales MX and my husband Sergio and our daughter moved from Colima to Nogales so that we could be together once again. Sergio would watch our daughter while I worked, making the daily trek back and forth from Mexico to the US for the next two years.
I was finally able to bring my family to the US in 2015! We were determined to make a life for our family and get ahead! We both worked hard to fulfill our goals of buying a home, car and to also have another child.
In 2016, my husband’s twin was diagnosed with kidney problems. We went back to Colima to go see him in 2017. When we got there, we were told that his brother needed a kidney transplant to survive. Sergio immediately decided to donate one of his own kidneys to his twin brother! They did not allow him to do so fearing that since it was hereditary, Sergio himself should wait and make sure he didn’t suffer the same fate. So they decided to wait….
While working here at Amado in 2018, Sergio too started to feel fatigued, his feet hurt so bad, the pain in his back was agonizing, the exact symptoms his twin had suffered in Colima. I made him an appointment with our physician and sure enough, he too had the same exact kidney health issues as his twin brother.
He went through tons of lab work and two days later when they got the results, we were notified at 9:00 pm as we were getting ready to go to bed, that his functioning levels were so low that he needed to be admitted immediately! There we were told his illness was chronic. His kidneys are half the size of normal kidneys, one measuring 6 centimeters and the other 7 when each kidney should measure at least 12 to 14 centimeters. He was hospitalized for one week and this is where our lives changed drastically! I had to stay with him at the hospital along with our infant, only months old. So, so difficult.
In December of 2018 he started dialysis. He is currently on a waiting list for a kidney transplant but we need to come up with a minimum of $10,000.00 to pay for the kidney transplant when it’s available for the surgery.
Aside from all the medications that Sergio needs to take to heal from the dialysis, there are tons of expenses that we have incurred with numerous physicians, specialists, and hospitals etc.
My family has helped us tremendously and I seriously don’t know where we would be without them!
Now our very own “Amado Family” where we are now both employed, is also supporting us with what we need. We are truly grateful and appreciative! We feel so blessed…..Thank you very much!
It is with a heavy heart that we submit this request for your help! One of our own, Sergio Cortes, is facing a life threatening illness! Sergio has been diagnosed with renal failure and he is running out of time! Without your help his chance for survival is minimal. His wife Mayra, who also works here at Amado Management LLC alongside him, is trying to raise as much money as they can to be prepared for the astronomical costs that await them. They must have at least $10,000 dollars in hand if he is fortunate enough to receive a liver transplant donor once his number comes up. If he does not, they will move on to the next candidate waiting in line.
We ask that you humbly reach into your monetary resources and give as much as you can! If 1,000 of you sent even $1, that right there is $1,000.00 dollars! We have faith and hope that our community, friends and family will not hesitate to assist this amazing family that has overcome tremendous obstacles, only to be faced with a health crisis! We would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation in anticipation of your generosity!
Amado Family and the Cortes Family thank you!
This is our story....
Sergio and I (Mayra) met for the first time in Colima Mexico, back in 2009 and soon thereafter became friends. One year later we married and in 2011, our first daughter, Ingrid was born. She was our motivation to get ahead in life! Trying to raise a family in Colima was not easy, our circumstances were difficult to say the least.
In 2013 we decided to come here to the United States being that I was a US citizen already. We assumed that because I was a US citizen, my child would automatically be considered a US citizen too but that was not the case. I so wanted her to be raised as a US citizen just like myself. Sergio did not even have a visa at the time so we were faced with the dilemma of what to do. I decided I needed to move to the Nogales border and work and establish my family! I had nowhere to live but my sister-in-law in Nogales Son. MX, who allowed us to reside in her grandmother’s house for 3 months and for that I am eternally grateful.
I then started on my “immigration” journey for my family. I decided I would not return to Colima and that I would stay and dedicate myself to establishing residency for my husband and for my daughter Ingrid. I was discouraged by so many, telling me this was IMPOSSIBLE but I would not give up!
I soon found employment in the US, praise God, we rented our own home in Nogales MX and my husband Sergio and our daughter moved from Colima to Nogales so that we could be together once again. Sergio would watch our daughter while I worked, making the daily trek back and forth from Mexico to the US for the next two years.
I was finally able to bring my family to the US in 2015! We were determined to make a life for our family and get ahead! We both worked hard to fulfill our goals of buying a home, car and to also have another child.
In 2016, my husband’s twin was diagnosed with kidney problems. We went back to Colima to go see him in 2017. When we got there, we were told that his brother needed a kidney transplant to survive. Sergio immediately decided to donate one of his own kidneys to his twin brother! They did not allow him to do so fearing that since it was hereditary, Sergio himself should wait and make sure he didn’t suffer the same fate. So they decided to wait….
While working here at Amado in 2018, Sergio too started to feel fatigued, his feet hurt so bad, the pain in his back was agonizing, the exact symptoms his twin had suffered in Colima. I made him an appointment with our physician and sure enough, he too had the same exact kidney health issues as his twin brother.
He went through tons of lab work and two days later when they got the results, we were notified at 9:00 pm as we were getting ready to go to bed, that his functioning levels were so low that he needed to be admitted immediately! There we were told his illness was chronic. His kidneys are half the size of normal kidneys, one measuring 6 centimeters and the other 7 when each kidney should measure at least 12 to 14 centimeters. He was hospitalized for one week and this is where our lives changed drastically! I had to stay with him at the hospital along with our infant, only months old. So, so difficult.
In December of 2018 he started dialysis. He is currently on a waiting list for a kidney transplant but we need to come up with a minimum of $10,000.00 to pay for the kidney transplant when it’s available for the surgery.
Aside from all the medications that Sergio needs to take to heal from the dialysis, there are tons of expenses that we have incurred with numerous physicians, specialists, and hospitals etc.
My family has helped us tremendously and I seriously don’t know where we would be without them!
Now our very own “Amado Family” where we are now both employed, is also supporting us with what we need. We are truly grateful and appreciative! We feel so blessed…..Thank you very much!
Organizer
Sergio Cortes-Cordova
Organizer
Nogales, AZ