Zachary's Transplant Fund

Zak is getting a transplant on July 24th. This will be his second transplant. He had his first transplant when he was only 11 years old, March 7th of 2001. We were lucky enough that the kidney had lasted 12 years. But with recent hospitalizations resulting in fluid building around the heart and needed to be drained and then a week after that release he ended up back in the hospital with 2 liters of fluid in his lung and it was at that point that the doctors said there is no more putting it off. We need to start you on dialysis.


During all this time Laura, our mother, has had to take time off of work to care for him at the hospital and transport him to various doctor appointments. And now that it's time for the transplant, she's run out of Paid Time Off (PTO). Now she's safe from losing her job due to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). But this means all the time that she's at the hospital with Zak recovering and the doctor appointments following the transplant will be unpaid and leaving them in a hard place. They will have to travel from Stonington CT to Hartford CT (which is about an hour's drive as long as there's no traffic) twice a week for at least a month following the transplant.

Zachary can't drive because he is legally blind on top of many other medical problems that he has faced. Like I have previously mentioned he had a transplant when he was 11. But before that when he was 6 his spinal cord swelled into his brain and paralyzed him from the chest down and also completely blind. He spent months in the hospital and eventually regained use of his limbs but his site was 90% gone.

Please any way in which you can help would be greatly appreciated.