Why We’re Here
This is my mom, Didie.
She has Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, a rare lung disease that requires her to have a double lung transplant. She has never smoked or taken diet pills, which lead the Dr’s to suspect it’s from a hole in her heart, that she’s had since birth.
She has lived with this disease for many years and has been on numerous therapies. She was placed on the Lung Transplant list in October. So now we wait for that life altering call.
We long for the day where oxygen and medication hoses no longer trip her up constantly. We long for the day where she can be spontaneous again. We long for the day where she can be Didie again.
After the transplant she will be on approximately 30 medications each day for the rest of her life. These medications are very expensive, running about $1000/month; and that’s after insurance pays their portion!
Therefore, we are starting a fundraising campaign to help her offset these costs.
We hope you’ll take a look around the site, get to know who Didie is. Don’t forget to leave a comment, we’d love to hear from you!
Sherri (Didie’s Daughter & Caregiver)
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Go Team Didie!!!!!
We love you Aunt Didie….
Leigh-Ann,Carey
and the Mangia Amigos!!!!!
Hi Aunti Didie!!
We’re one of the Mangia Amigos and we’d just like to wish you great courage and send you our love and support.
Leigh-Ann and Carey are great friends and their family is “our” family.
We wish you a joyous holiday season with your family.
Love,
Billy and Jeannie Morgan
My husband and I will contribute towards the accommodations in Tucson for Didie and Sherri for the 2-3 months they must remain there after the transplant. We still need to raise a lot of money and hope others will donate too. We wish her the very best for a long life ahead.
Hi Sherri,
Just wanted to let you know we keep your mom in our hearts and prayers everyday and have for a very long time as well as all of you. Take care.
Dave & Margie
We are wishing you all the luck in the world. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Go team Didie!!!!!! Love, Bob and Emmeretta Sanders
What a fantastic idea! Parents are priceless. Didie is definately in my thoughts & prayers. I will send tons of positive and angel healing energy. De Anna is one of my dearest friends and always speaks so highly of you Sherri. De Anna, if you drop me a bunch of “Where Did You Find Me” cards in the mail – I will make sure to blanket this side of town! Happy Holidays & Best Wishes for a HEALTHY 2008.
PS Have you thought of creating an electronic version of the card (ie; that people can forward via email)…good way to reach even more.
Hi Didie,
My name is Dayna and I am a good friend of DeAnna’s. I wanted you to know that I am an organ donor. I think it is irresponsible not to be a donor. I want to encourage everyone that reads this web site to consider that we can save people’s (like you) lives by making this choice.
I will speak of you, and this web site, to people I know and pray that you get your wish. It is clear you are loved and are still needed on this planet.
Love, Dayna
Hi Didie,
We wanted you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers. May this Holiday season be the best for you.
Love Always,
Don and Nancy
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you all the best and keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.
With much love,
Richard, Debby, Cobi, Kacie Furcolo
Dearest Didie,
Think back to the rolicking four corners on Davis Avenue. Yes, it is I, Kathie from 159. I believe we lived in the same house…at different times, of course. Didie, you look wonderful. Has 40 years really gone by? Carole told me about your medical problems, and I told her to tell you to hold out lots of hope. She may have passed my story on to you, but I’ll give you the highlights. I had just retired, planning to enjoy life on my meager (teacher’s) pension when I learned I had cirrhosis (NASH, non-alcoholic steat hepatitis, a condition most common in women of a certain age). Nevertheless, something needed to be done. I waited 6 years for a liver in Philadelphia. Then my heart decided to join in the fun. I needed an aortic valve replacement. My family, as you may recall are from the Midwest, urged me to get a second opinion at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. I did, and they sent me to the Mayo Clinic in Florida. In 4 months (Feb. 2005), I had a liver transplant (an unknown donor) and a heart valve replacement (I call her Elsie because it’s from a cow) in the same long operation. Now here’s where I come to the good part…I am doing great! Oh, Didie I wish for your transplant to come soon. I know how tough the waiting is. Carol told me you have a wonderful doctor that you have a lot of faith in. That’s so important; I’m glad you found him. I expect you to keep up the good fight so that I can visit you just as soon as I have enough money to buy a ticket…unfortunately, it’s no longer just a walk across the street. Have a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year…this could be your year!!! Love to you. Kathie
Aunt Didie:
Our thought and prayers are with you everyday. We wish we could be with you all this Christmas like so many years in the past. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy HEALTHY New Year.
Love Ronnie, Noah and Jacob.
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