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Please help Sherri keep her and her new kidney transplant
alive!
My 28 year-old daughter-in-law has led one of the roughest
lives of anyone I have ever met, and yet, has done so with a smile.
Sherri was diagnosed at age 2. She lost both her mother 6 years ago,
and her brother at 11 to a disease, that she herself suffers from.
Deserted by uncaring relatives who are ignorant of the daily struggle
her life has been, she has lived with this disease that has taken away
any hope for a future. Sherri suffers from Alports Syndrome, a very
rare form of severe genetic kidney malfunction. In Alports, the
filtering system of the kidneys breaks down. The cartilage in the body
becomes damaged, often leading to hearing loss and problems in the
joints. Like her mother and brother before her, Sherri ended up on
dialysis, her life dependent upon a machine draining, filtering and
returning her blood. She sat in a chair for four hours, three times a
week, at a nearby hospital receiving dialysis. With no help from most
family or friends Sherri has had to face a loss of her kidney function
and a life connected to a dialysis machine. She also had to come to
terms with the death of her mother and 19 year old brother, which left
her without anyone to look after her or help her through such a
difficult time. Sherri's life and dreams have been on a constant
painful pause, even after a recent, a much-needed, kidney transplant.
Life has been moving very slowly to just plain stagnant for Sherri.
With no money to have the proper diet needed after a kidney transplant
as well as no money to get to medical appointments, pay for necessary
medications, or even her living expenses, Sherri tries to keep
positive for the sake of her new kidney, which she believes is a
blessing from God. Sherri has dreams of having a job and living a
somewhat normal life, but given her medical condition she has often
attended job interviews where she is viewed as being nothing more than
disabled. No return phone call was common despite how well the
interview seemed to go..
Due to such poor health through her
teenage years, Sherri has not had the opportunity to get a decent
eduction in order to be considered in the workforce. Sherri's goals
are to keep this new gift, a new kidney alive so that she can have the
life that most of us already have. This is a young woman who very
unfairly received the "short end of the stick" , developing
this extremely debilitating disease that would have kept her from
living until the age of thirty. All I ask is that
anyone in a
position to donate whether big or small, help Sherri, please reach out
to her by donating to help her with getting the food she requires, her
medical appointments, her medication and the funds she needs to be
able to survive. Any additional funds beyond her basic needs would be
used for education towards a trade so that she can have what anyone
wants...a job where she can earn money and make her feel good about
herself for the first time since her diagnosis.
Please help!
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