Support For The Warner Family
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As many of you know, Chad's wife Gretchen, entered the hospital Febuary this year due to complications with her lungs. She is now on EMCO (a machine to aretificially keep her lungs going) in critical condition at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. We are starting this fund to help offset the financial burden the Warner family is facing. More than anything keep the family in your thoughts and prayers.
Thank you in advance for your concern, prayers and generosity.
For more information about Gretchen's past, here is an article she wrote about herself in 2012:
"My name is Gretchen Warner and i recieved a double lung transplant this past November 28 2011. I was diagnosed witht the autoimmune disease, scleroderma, in 2004. It affected my lungs more than any other part of my body. Over the years my lungs progressivly got worse. I began to see a doctor in Baltimore, MD in 2007. The doctor mentioned that a center in another state was now doing lung transplants for scleroderma patients that also had esophagiel disfunction. So, in October 2011 i traveled to be evaluated for a lung transplant. After a week of evaluations and three weeks of waiting to be approved, i moved to another state to wait for a set of lungs. I arrived on Wednesday, November 15 and on the morning of Friday, November 18th my lungs colapsed. I knew somthing did not seem right so I immediatly called 911. The ambulance arrived and took me to the emergency room. From then I did not regain conciousness for three weeks. I was informed by my surgeons and family that i was kept alive by an EMCO machine for 10 days and had recieved lungs that were too large for my body. So, they had to trim them to fit. I have two lobes on one side and just one lobe on the other. I was the first person to walk out of the hospital with this type of procedure. I spent a total of six weeks in the hospital after being told that i would be there for three months. One doctor referred to me as a miracle girl. I am now home in Kentucky and am very active. Where i was once unable to even dress myself without getting out of breath, I now jog and do zumba twice a week. My last visit to Pittsburgh for a check up also included an interview with the local news channel. You can watch it on Youtube when typing in Gretchen Warner lung transplant. Life is so much better and easier. Thanks to the Lord above, my great family, and the medical staff.
Thank you in advance for your concern, prayers and generosity.
For more information about Gretchen's past, here is an article she wrote about herself in 2012:
"My name is Gretchen Warner and i recieved a double lung transplant this past November 28 2011. I was diagnosed witht the autoimmune disease, scleroderma, in 2004. It affected my lungs more than any other part of my body. Over the years my lungs progressivly got worse. I began to see a doctor in Baltimore, MD in 2007. The doctor mentioned that a center in another state was now doing lung transplants for scleroderma patients that also had esophagiel disfunction. So, in October 2011 i traveled to be evaluated for a lung transplant. After a week of evaluations and three weeks of waiting to be approved, i moved to another state to wait for a set of lungs. I arrived on Wednesday, November 15 and on the morning of Friday, November 18th my lungs colapsed. I knew somthing did not seem right so I immediatly called 911. The ambulance arrived and took me to the emergency room. From then I did not regain conciousness for three weeks. I was informed by my surgeons and family that i was kept alive by an EMCO machine for 10 days and had recieved lungs that were too large for my body. So, they had to trim them to fit. I have two lobes on one side and just one lobe on the other. I was the first person to walk out of the hospital with this type of procedure. I spent a total of six weeks in the hospital after being told that i would be there for three months. One doctor referred to me as a miracle girl. I am now home in Kentucky and am very active. Where i was once unable to even dress myself without getting out of breath, I now jog and do zumba twice a week. My last visit to Pittsburgh for a check up also included an interview with the local news channel. You can watch it on Youtube when typing in Gretchen Warner lung transplant. Life is so much better and easier. Thanks to the Lord above, my great family, and the medical staff.
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