Liver Transplant Fund - Kathy Ruth Gilliland Laws

Kathy is a 59 year old wife and mother of three.  In 2010, she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. After a long and well-fought battle, the cancer went into remission. We now use the word "cure" after seven years. What should have been a "happily ever after" has since turned into nightmare for Kathy and her family. The chemotherapy treatment damaged her liver to the point of now desperately needing a transplant. She was lucky enough to find an excellent specialist in Memphis, a short hour and a half drive from her home in West Tennessee. Her husband, David, had a good job in Nashville, and he lived and worked there during the week. He gladly made the three and a half hour drive home every weekend without fail. While away, Kathy's youngest daughter, Sarah, has stayed by her side making sure that Kathy receives the correct medication at the correct times daily, and has too many times spent days sitting by her mother's side in emergency rooms and by hospital beds waiting for the doctor to tell her she could take her mother back home. Kathy's other children, Emma and Hunter, travel home as often as possible as they no longer live in the area. Kathy's oldest, Emma, works as an elementary school teacher in Middle Tennessee, and her son, Hunter, is currently in graduate school working on a degree in public health. Both are heartbroken, worried sick, and stretched thin doing their best to support their mother, father, and sister from a distance. While the situation has not been ideal, it was stable and worked for a little over three years until Kathy's health took a turn for the worst. David soon made the difficult decision to leave his well-paying job in his field of Aerodynamics to take a job in their hometown at a large pay cut in order to be home with Kathy and to support Sarah as his wife's 24 hour care giver. Before making the move, David and Kathy, as well as her doctors checked to make sure that the change in insurance would not affect Kathy's medical care or her ability to get the liver transplant as soon as possible. It seemed that everything would work well enough to keep Kathy with her current specialist in Memphis, as well as allow her to go through with a transplant when a donation was available. Unfortunately, her new insurance company quickly started sending letters to Kathy's family letting them know that they would not cover her transplant in the state of Tennessee. Even the testing needed to ensure that Kathy could survive the transplant surgery has been put on an indefinite hold until she and her family could find a completely new doctor and hospital in St. Louis, MO. Now instead of the hour and a half trip to Memphis, she will need to make an over three hours long journey, often weekly. This change has hit Kathy's family and support group hard, both emotionally and financially. That is why I'm here. I'm asking that you give anything you can to support this amazing mother and wife. Any monetary donation would go to help the Laws family with transportation to and from St. Louis, out-of-pocket medical expenses, and lost wages from time taken off to take Kathy to medical appointments. If you cannot give monetarily, please share this on social media. We would also love your prayers and positive thoughts. If you can do any or all of these things, we would be forever grateful. All of these gifts would help to make it possible for Kathy to spend many more holidays and birthdays with her loving family and to meet any precious grand-babies that may make an appearance in the future. I know that her children would consider anything you could offer a gift from God. Thank you for your invaluable time.