Making A Difference


Over this past week; I decided to donate my writing skills, to help my cousin Jessica's aunt, Kari Galassi.
After I did a telephone interview with her and wrote an article on her story. I was trying to decide how I could help other people, with my writing skills.

I decided to start a second Blog, to help Organ Donor recipients to connect with people that can help them. The Blog is called Connecting Organs, I also started a Facebook page by the same name. I teamed up with my life long friend, Carrie Dalton. We will use the Blog to do a feature, on an Organ Recipient, in need of help. Our goal is to help as many people, as we possibly can.

Carrie and I have been personally effected, by End Renal Kidney Failure. We both have had people we were, or are close to go through Kidney Transplants. Right now, for Carrie it is her younger sister Sherie Dalton. Sherie is on a waiting list for a Kidney and going through Dialysis. Their parents, Leonard and Yvonne Dalton, are both transplant recipients.

Carrie and Sherie have grown up watching their parents and grandmother go through Dialysis and having transplants. I have known the Dalton family, since I was a child. Carrie and I have been friends, since I was in the fifth grade. I want to be able to help this family, in any way that I can.

Kari Galassi, lives in Bigfork, Montana. She is on Dialysis daily and waiting to have a Double Transplant, Kidney and Pancreas. I am waiting for approval from an Editor, to have her story on Yahoo.

I lived with someone who went through a transplant, in 1992. His name was Mark Schaff, I drove him to Dialysis, three times a week. He had a Kidney transplant after 11 months, then he had to take a pill everyday, to keep his immune system from attacking the new Kidney. Mark was my best friend and a dear friend to Carrie, he passed away from Cancer in 2009. For us to do this now, is a way to honor his memory.

Carrie and I have dedicated the Facebook page to the ones we know personally, please check it out. We do not have the resources to be a Non Profit, we have to use a Blog and a facebook page.

Bobbie
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