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Hello friends! This is the page for the friends of Randy Hackley to help support him getting a new (to him) kidney. Help Save Randy’s Life!

Randy Hackley desperately needs your help. At the young age of 46, Randy is facing end-stage-renal disease or kidney failure and is in desperate need of a lifesaving kidney transplant. A few years ago, Randy began the process of dialysis, and has been facing these lengthy and time consuming treatments ever since. Randy is undergoing extensive medical testing along with his best friend, Damon (pictured in the photo) who will be tested to donate one of his kidneys to Randy! A living-donor transplant will hopefully speed up the process of Randy receiving a new kidney. Without a new kidney, Randy will eventually run out of options, and sadly run out of time. Randy is happily married and enjoys spending time with family and friends. He is looking forward to the day he can go back to work, volunteer in his community, and spend time doing the things he loves to do. While a kidney transplant will save Randy’s life, the cost of a transplant is monumental. Randy is facing the high cost of his COBRA health insurance premium while he is out of work. Co-pays and deductibles, medical expenses, lab and testing fees, and out-of-pocket costs are quickly adding up for Randy. He is also required to take post-transplant medications to halt rejection that are needed for the rest of his life. Randy is out of work and his living expenses are quickly rising. Randy and his family are asking for your support during this critical and important time in his life. To help with this financial burden, a fundraising campaign in Randy’s honor has been established with HelpHOPELive, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax-deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the South-Atlantic Kidney Transplant Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for transplant-related expenses only. Your contribution is greatly appreciated. For credit card contributions, please call 800.642.8399 or visit www.helphopelive.org and search for Randy Hackley, Or:

Make checks payable to: HelpHOPELive
Note in memo section: In honor of Randy Hackley
Please send to: HelpHOPELive
Two Radnor Corporate Center
100 Matsonford Road, Suite 100
Radnor, PA 19087

Thank you ahead of time for your thoughts, prayers and support. Any donation amount, no matter how big or how small is one step closer to a brighter future for Randy. Gratefully,

Randy’s family and Community

Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. This campaign is administered by HelpHOPELive, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing fundraising assistance to transplant and catastrophic injury patients. Information: 800.642.8399. Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 888.830.4989. The license is not an endorsement by the state.

08/30/2022

Good morning people! I have not said much about my recovery because it has been so slow. I spent 5 weeks bedridden and it supposedly take 3 days of PT to overcome each day in bed. It is definitely a case where my mind wants to be out and about and my body says, "nah".

I know I'm lucky to be alive so I am using that knowledge plus the fact that so many others are worse off to give myself a healthy perspective. I can climb back and I will do so. I get to start taking some pills to get off this water weight this week and I start taking stuff to boost my hemoglobin. My wound may have reached the point where the vacuum pump comes off and I get this new technology (phages) put into the wound to finish healing it 😲.

So I'm ok and I will continue to get better. I want all of you that made it this far to take a moment and appreciate what you have. If you were able to get out of bed this morning, make your own breakfast, and go to work please appreciate it. I'm fighting to get there and I will never take it for granted again.

Randy.

PS Yes I still have my fundraiser and I'm bugging you because if you saw how much these antibiotics that I take daily are costing your eyes would melt. I have to take them for the next 12 to 18 months so I will likely never pay them off but I can try 😁

Randy Hackley desperately needs your help. At 51, Randy is facing end-stage-renal disease or kidney failure and is in desperate need of a lifesaving kidney transplant.

08/12/2022

https://helphopelive.org/campaign/11445/

Randy Hackley desperately needs your help. At 51, Randy is facing end-stage-renal disease or kidney failure and is in desperate need of a lifesaving kidney transplant.

08/11/2022

Howdy folks! I just had another bandage change and it went fine. The wound is so deep they can watch my digestive system 🥺. Good news I now only have to do this once a week 😁.

08/03/2022

Good morning friends feeling a little better today! The plan to get me home is shaping up but the cost to switch to antibiotics pills as opposed to IV medicine is ridiculous 😱. I going to need an A Team to do some break ins 🤔. Feel free to sign up 😁

07/30/2022

Well my friends things have changed drastically in my life. As you know back in May I got my transplant and after coming back from cardiac arrest things started to go well.

Before I went home I started leaking fluid from my incision site but nobody thought it was a big deal. As time went on it got worse and worse until they discovered that I had an incredibly rare bacterial infection that could kill me. For the last few weeks these doctors have worked their butts off trying to save my new kidney and to get rid of the infection. I have had a huge section of my stomach cut out and I am attached to a wound vacuum machine. I am on about 5 different anti-bacterial medications. We have reached the point where in order to give me the best chance of beating the infection I have to stop the anti-rejection medications so my body can fight. This will most likely cause my kidney to die and it will stay in place so I will have 3 non-functioning kidneys.

Am I upset? Yes sir! I have spent so much time and effort trying to get a kidney and it now is spoiled because of an infection that approximately 5 people at UNC get a year.

Am I giving up? F NO! I have spent almost 9 years of my life trying to live without dialysis and I am not letting some damn bug stop me! I have been through so much pain and stress in this fight and yet I am still here. This happens to people and I happen to be in the position where I have such a strong community of people to help me through this time. If this has to happen then it is better to happen to me because I can take it.

So I will spend another week or two in the hospital. I will keep getting these wound changes (which hurt like hell) until I can get through them without IV pain meds. I will go home with the wound machine and I will rehab and go back on dialysis. After a year to a year and a half I will be able to get off antibiotics and I can go back on the list for a transplant.

I am keeping my fundraiser open because it has been unbelievably expensive trying to beat this thing. My goal is still to get a kidney and stop dialysis. These few months without dialysis have been glorious and I will do anything to get back to this point.

I will not be beaten. You people have supported me so much through this time that I feel there is a reason for me to still be here. I am a fighter and I am going to keep fighting!

I love y'all!

Randy.

https://helphopelive.org/campaign/11445/

07/16/2022

Another wound cleaning today. This is probably the most painful but necessary thing I have to do. Ripping thick ass tape off of a deep hole in my stomach just sucks. The thing is I need to do it to make sure I'm healing. It's really hard to have gone through all the dialysis stuff to now almost die from a microscopic bug. I guess I need to learn to be more patient because there is nothing to do but to wait to see how/when I heal. I appreciate all you fine folks that have reached out to me just to say hello or to wish me the best in this journey. I have also learned to let some people go because despite how long we have known each other they just don't get it.

Enjoy your weekend friends. I going to enjoy that I don't have another dressing change until Monday. Sometimes it is the little things that get you through 😊

07/08/2022

Good news- Morris the kidney is working just fine. Bad news- I am one of the 5 patients a year at UNC who pick up an extremely drug resistant infection in the transplant incision. This could cause them to remove my working kidney so I can stop taking immunosuppressant drugs in order to fight this with full force. I will be living in the hospital for the next few weeks while they operate to take out infected tissue and pump me full of antibiotics.

I feel fine. No fever so the infection isn't in my bloodstream. I know this could be terrible but things are leaning towards this just being a long fight (up to one year to completely eradicate). I am just tired of having to deal with medical crap and I'm long past being ready to go back to full time work.

Y'all are helping me so much by offering me well wishes and support. One of the good things that came about with Facebook is the ability to reach out and care for others rather easily with no more than a few kind words.

Thank you guys for being my rock. I'm going to get through this because I'm the guy with the wallet that says "Bad MF'er" 😉

Love y'all

Randy.

PS I am truly fine so don't go acting like I am kicking the bucket. This is really just annoying more than anything else and the only thing that hurts is the surgery to clean it out and they give me awesome drugs for that 😉

06/20/2022

Well I spent the last 5-6 days of the last 2 weeks in the hospital (don't get diverticulitis). Morris seems to be fine and I get my staples out Thursday 😊

06/09/2022

Just spent a day at the hospital in the ER/triage. Everything that I was worried about turned out to be normal. There are NO rooms at UNC. If I (transplant patient) can't get a room in 24 hours trust me you can't. Try Hillsborough if you need the ER.

05/28/2022

I didn't do dialysis on Wednesday. I didn't do it Friday and I won't do it Monday. Tuesday I get a port put in so they can get blood out of me and at that time they might end dialysis for good 😊

05/23/2022

3 weeks post transplant and I just did my first 5K. If you took that to mean I went 3.1 miles by car today you'd be right 🙃. I am doing OK and my weight is almost down to my pre-transplant weight which means all the crap they pumped into me has almost dissipated.

So I have had people ask why my fundraiser is still going. Fair question so please understand that I am still doing dialysis 3 times a week which is 15K a month. Plus now I am taking about 45 anti-rejection type pills a day. This will all be more manageable in 3 months when I can go back to work but for now it makes things tight.

Y'all have a most plesant day and keep those well wishes coming. I truly believe they help me get a little better every day :)

https://helphopelive.org/campaign/11445/

05/15/2022

One day shy of 2 weeks with this third kidney (yep, you keep your other two). In some ways I feel better because peeing takes out way more toxins than dialysis. In other ways this really sucks because of the incision pain and my body just doesn't work. I get tired walking to the kitchen and back. I see a lot of tv in my future. And some books I have been waiting to read 😁

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