Marshall and his donor, Karen Tyner, enjoy the sunshine and fellowship at St. Timothy's Spring Sprint - April 1, 2006.
Marshall Taylor, age 13, of Raleigh, NC needs a kidney transplant. The financial costs to his family and donor are overwhelming.
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Wayne Braun involves Marshall in one of his illusions during the Magic Show Benefit in September 2006.
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Marshall loves playing goalie. He hopes that his future kidney transplant will not keep him from playing college hockey, maybe at VMI.
World famous King Richard Petty, a Nascar legend, meets the not yet famous hockey player, Marshall Taylor at Victory Junction.
Kyle Petty greets Marshall at Victory Junction Christmas Party.
Your contributions and prayers will help keep Marshall in the game!
Marshall cheers for all those who have helped raise money for his kidney transplant.
Marshall Taylor's friends and family are raising money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with his kidney transplant. Marshall lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and is being treated at the UNC Transplant Center in Chapel Hill.
Marshall's family has chosen to fundraise with National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF) in part because NTAF provides both tax-deductibility and fiscal accountability to his contributors. Contributors can be sure that funds contributed will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses.
Marshall was born with his disease but was only diagnosed in August 2005. His kidneys will eventually fail completely and he will soon need a transplant. He is now having daily injections of a growth hormone and a weekly injection for his severe anemia. As he gets closer to a transplant date, he will have to take many other medications daily. After his transplant he will have to take immunosuppressant medications for the rest of his life.
Marshall has been evaluated and deemed a candidate for transplantation at the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC. Karen Tyner, his aunt from South Carolina, has offered one of her kidneys to Marshall and she has undergone many tests to insure a proper match. Funding for these life saving and life giving operations including the donor's expenses is a monumental task, as there are many medical expenses not covered by insurance. The Taylor family cannot meet this challenge alone.
To help ease this financial burden, a fundraising campaign has been established through the National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF) for Marshall's medical expenses. NTAF is a nonprofit organization that has been assisting the transplant community for over twenty years. NTAF administers all tax-deductible contributions for transplant-related expenses only.
The song you hear on this site was written and sung by Greg Nicholson of Songs of Love and is used by permission from Songs of Love. Go to their website to see how Songs of Love is helping brighten the lives of many ill children and their famalies.
"Don't take your organs to heaven; heaven knows we need them here!"
This site was made possible by a very generous donation. The anonymous donor said, "I want this site to help Marshall and as many other transplant patients as possible." We are honored and humbled as recipients of this gift and we will make every effort to insure that many others in the transplant community are helped through this site. If you have suggestions about how this site can best benefit the whole community, please go to the REQUEST INFO page and send us your comments.
