Cheryl Parker

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Cheryl's

Breath of Life page

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Hello and thank you for visiting,

The reason for this website is simple...

Bad things happen to Good people.

Since leaving the military in the early 80's, Cheryl had up to about 3 years ago spent her life as a working single mom, doing an amazing job raising 3 children (one doctor, one teacher, one still in school.), and being a Grandma to a growing tribe of grandkids.

Over the last 3 years Cheryl has developed crippling, incurable C.O.P.D. as a direct result of exposure to chemicals at a construction site while working at her job as a security consultant.

The firms responsible for this exposure promptly assembled their lawyers and it was soon determined that somehow, they were not responsible for any of Cheryl's injuries and Cheryl has never gotten a dime either in workmans comp. payments or from any settlement.

If it weren't for disability insurance that Cheryl wisely purchased years earlier on her own, (which didn't begin paying until one year after her permanent disability was medically determined),

Cheryl would be surviving on her SS disability check and as we all know, that is meant to be a supplement, not a primary income source and there is no way anyone can live on that amount of money.

As a result of this disease Cheryl now has difficulty even crossing a room and is permanently accompanied by her trusty oxygen tank and hose.

At this point her only option for long term survival is to replace both of her demolished lungs

Many people would have been understandably overwhelmed by all of this but not Cheryl.

She is more determined than ever to get through this and continue to be a part of the lives of her children and grandchildren.

There is just one problem...

Once the surgery begins,

Cheryl can consider herself to be in debt for roughly 100000 to 120000 dollars!

Her insurance covers no more than 80 % of the expected 700000 dollar cost of this surgery and the subsequent medications and follow-up care afterwards.

Simple fact:

Without these medications and the constant monitoring required by transplant patients after surgery,

Cheryl will die.

We intend to see that that doesn't happen!

While the odds of a few everyday people raising this kind of money alone are pretty slim,

we know that

Lord willing and with the help of this website and other venues,

We will find a way to come as close as possible to our goal.

Thank you for your time and thank you in advance should you decide to help

There are some options listed below for doing just that.

  Family and friends of Cheryl Parker are working  very hard to raise money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with transplantation.

  We have chosen in part to fundraise with NTAF - The Leader in Fundraising Assistance and Support for Transplant and Catastrophic Injury in part because NTAF provides both tax-deductibility and fiscal accountability to contributors. Contributors can be sure that funds contributed will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses. To make a contribution to this fundraising campaign:

Make checks payable to:
NTAF Southeast Lung Transplant Fund

Note in memo section:
In honor of Cheryl A Parker

Mail to:
NTAF
150 N. Radnor Chester Road, Suite F-120
Radnor, PA 19087

For secure credit card donations:
Call 800-642-8399 or click the "CONTRIBUTE NOW" button.

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Cheryl's Breath of life

For more information, please contact NTAF at 800-642-8399.

Thanks for your support!