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Yard sale and food cook-off in honor of Adelia Harris |
| Adelia Harris, 21, needs a heart transplant to survive. In April, she was diagnosed with heart failure and was told her heart was functioning like the heart of a 90-year-old woman. Doctors began aggressive treatments in hopes of stabilizing her condition, but her heart was already severely damaged. |
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| Publish Date: 09:12AM 11/10/09 |
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In October, Harris received a heart pump to sustain her life while she awaits the transplant.
A heart transplant costs approximately $775,000, and that’s only the beginning. Even with health coverage, Harris faces significant expenses related to her transplant. She will need follow-up care and anti-rejection medications for the rest of her life. These medications can cost as much as $5,000 a month, and they are as critical to her survival as the transplant itself.
To overcome these financial challenges, Harris turned to the National Foundation for Transplants (NFT) for assistance. NFT is a nonprofit organization that helps transplant patients raise funds to pay for medical expenses.
“We work with patients like Adelia every day,” said Lauren Wilmer, NFT fundraising consultant. “It’s truly heartbreaking to see someone so young face such tremendous expenses related to the transplant she needs to survive. At NFT, we help patients raise the necessary funds to live a full and happy life.”
Volunteers are planning a yard sale and food cook-off to help Harris with her expenses. The event will take place Saturday, Nov. 21 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Aye’s Kinderoo Care, 213 Vanboklen Street in Eastover.
The event includes a yard sale, fried fish, hamburgers and a cook-off with local entrepreneurs. For more information, please contact Ethel Greene at ethgree@aol.com or 803-353-2705.
To make donations in honor of Harris, please visit www.transplants.org and click on “patients we help” to search for her. If you prefer to mail your contribution, please send your gift to the NFT South Carolina Heart Fund, 5350 Poplar Avenue, Suite 430, Memphis, TN 38119. Be sure to write “in honor of Adelia Harris” in the subject line.
About NFT
NFT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in Memphis, Tenn. that has been helping transplant patients overcome financial obstacles since 1983. NFT provides fundraising expertise and advocacy to transplant patients by organizing fundraising campaigns in the patients’ own communities. In the past 26 years, NFT’s fundraising campaigns have generated nearly $56 million to assist patients.
NFT currently assists more than 800 transplant candidates and recipients nationwide. For more information about NFT, please call 800-489-3863 or visit www.transplants.org.
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