A Fellow Car Enthusiast Needs Your Help

[NYBugman]

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=384258

I urge you all to read through the entire Pelican Parts thread.

taken from the Pelican Parts thread:

Warren has Cystic Fibrosis (follow this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis). He's been in the hospital many times over the past years fighting off pneumonia and has beaten the odds by reaching the age of 57 years. This stay at St Paul hospital in Dallas has convinced him to finally become a candidate for a lung transplant which can ultimately lead Warren back to full health. Dr Rosenblatt (I believe the lead transplant doc) tells him that his other systems, heart, digestive, etc are in good order and he should be a good candidate.

There are two problems, time and money. The procedure will cost $400,000 to $500,000 and Warren is without insurance. The hospital will not consider him for a transplant or even the screening process to get on the list without the ability to finance it. He has some assets that can be sold to offset 30 – 35% of the cost, but that is not enough to get St Paul’s attention. The next problem, and this is much more critical is time. Warren’s Dr tells them that he expects time will run out for our friend in 3 to 4 months.

His sister Pat recently retired from her civil service job to care for Warren and act as his full time caretaker/advocate. Over the past few weeks, she has been weaving her way through the medical/health care system to find a way to get the transplant surgery paid for. She is currently checking into the Medicare/Medicaid system, bet we fear that the enrollment and qualification process may take too long.

Warren needs your help. Doctors, attorneys, medical case workers or others that know the system or have resources, please speak up and help our friend get through this.

If you have ideas, I can be reached by PM on the board, email (I only have email access in the evening) mark@markwilson.net, or by cell at 214 - four seven eight - 7272 or at work 214 - eight five nine - 6696.


OK, we are in full fundraising mode for Warren. The official paypal fundraising account for Warren is kvalent118@gmail.com. Paypal website is https://www.paypal.com/.

For those of you that want to send a check you can make it out to Kurt Valentine (KurtV) and he will deposit it into the Warren account. Here's the info you need:

Kurt Valentine
1100 Swifts Hwy
Jefferson City, MO 65109

If you can, please donate something to the fund, and keep Warren in your thoughts and prayers.

[Audiophil]

Wow, that is sad dude... a fellow German car fan. Let us know what the total gets up to.

For those of you with the American flags on your ride... something to think about.

[NYBugman]

Warren passed earlier today. Any monies donated will be used for his burial.

[Buglover]

RIP Warren

[Ghia_Roadster]

sad. so sad.

[my99vdub]

just plain tragic

[Rebelde33]

That poor thing. Doctors never really know how long someone is going to live. RIP