Welcome to the Angels for Amber website! This site was first created in 2001 for the purpose of fundraising to cover the living lobe donor expenses that we thought were necessary for myself at the time at Massachusetts General Hospital for a bilateral lung transplant. This was all due to the damages to my lungs from Cystic Fibrosis. The following year the Angels for Amber Foundation was created and fundraisers were planned throughout the United States, thanks to my family and friends, in dedication to my Foundation. My lung transplant was a blessing, especially after four and a half years on the waitlist, in November of 2005. I was a star patient in the eyes of the Doc’s and medical staff at MGH. Then, within less then a year I found myself in a terrible situation, in rejection and eventually BOS with no new treatments or options for me in the local Boston area. After careful search, my family had found an opportunity, Duke University Medical Hospital in North Carolina. Duke offered me a chance at a second transplant. After waiting approximately six weeks, most of which was inpatient, I got “the call” for my second chance at life in February of 2007. Now, three years out from that latest transplant and I can now call it a success. It has not only added years to my life, but the cliché “live every day to it’s fullest” is now my motto and recipe for life. To share my story with the World Wide Web is a privilege, one that I honor and appreciate. I hope others: patients, families, and medical staff alike finds my story inspiring and empowering, overcoming many battles, and ultimately surviving to relish each day that has been given.

If anywhere you are traveling throughout this website and you have a question or comment, please feel free to contact me. I have also added direct links to both the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Lung Transplant Foundation if you are interested in making a monetary donation. Thank you for taking the time to read the journey I have traveled through since my early twenties. I wish for all to live a happy and healthy life!