Donations Needed for Live Donor Liver Transplant

Susan Yellow Horse-Davis My Mother is in need of a Liver Transplant!

NTAF Midwest/West Liver Transplant Fund

Denver, Colorado - Susan Yellow Horse-Davis is the focus of a fundraising campaign to assist her with liver transplant related expenses. I hope that this email will add clarification to many.

Despite being sober for well over 15+ years, Susan does have cirrhosis and not only has been on the transplant list for a number of years but also has been symptomatic and had to have procedures done that are indicative of advancing stages of the disease and indications for a liver transplant. She was already hospitalized almost two years ago for life-threatening bleeding from esophageal varices meaning "varicose" backup of blood flow. It was very frightening because we could have lost her back then!

This concern is frightening to me as well. Somehow, we have to impress upon people through the moccasin telegraph that this is serious and was already serious before the liver cancer diagnosis has passed. This fundraising would have taken place even before that diagnosis - I think it just rallied us into action that was long overdue. An estimated $388,600 is being raised by Denver Native and Non-Native volunteers to assist Susan with uncovered medical and living expenses while recovering from the liver transplant over a 3-month period.

Susan is the daughter of Thomas Yellow Horse and Mary Friday Scares and the sister of Theresa, Gloria, Beverly, Sharon, Helen, Joe, Lucille, Rosemary, and Maria all living in the Denver area. Susan comes from a long line of Oglala Lakota Warriors through her grandparents Joseph Yellow Horse and Susie Patton, and Obed Friday Scares and Susie Pretty Weasel.

Susan is also a mother and a grandmother of 5. She and her husband, Grant Davis (Tlingit) have two children, Tahnee and Thomas. Their grandchildren, Kaia, Nitika, Samuel, Henry, and Lovella also need their "Unci" (grandma) to be healthy and strong.

To help defray some of the transplant expenses, a fundraising campaign has been established in Susan's honor with the National Transplant Assistance fund (NTAF). NTAF is a nonprofit organization that has been assisting the transplant community for over 22 years. All donations are tax-deductible and are administered for transplant expenses only. Donations are graciously accepted.

Make checks payable to: NTAF Midwest/WestLiver Transplant Fund

Note in memo section: In honor of Susan Yellow Horse-Davis

Please send to:
                    NTAF 3475 West Chester Pike-Ste.320
                    Newtown Square, PA 19073

A local committee of friends and family has been formed to create a variety of fund-raising activities for Susan's transplant expenses and volunteers are needed A.S.A.P. Individuals and groups interested in more information can email campaign manager Deborah Hunt, Ph.D. at [email protected] or call her at (303) 227-0865.

Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. This campaign is administered by the National Transplant Assistance Fund, a 501©(3) nonprofit providing fundraising assistance to transplant and catastrophic injury patients. Information: 800-642-8399.

**Indian Health Service or Tribal funding is not provided to liver transplant recipients. Susan Yellow Horse-Davis is raising money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with her liver transplant. Susan lives in Lakewood, CO and is being treated at University of Colorado Hospital.

Susan has chosen to fundraise with National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF) in part because NTAF provides both tax-deductibility and fiscal accountability to her contributors. Contributors can be sure that funds contributed will be used only to pay or reimburse medically - related expenses.

For more information, please contact NTAF at 800-642-8399.
To make a contribution to Susan's fundraising campaign, click the button to the right. To email this page directly to others in your community, who might wish to learn about Susan's campaign, click the "email" button and type in as many email addresses as you wish.
The National Transplant Assistance Fund is now taking secure online contributions by credit card to assist Susan with her transplant expenses. Her sister was not selected to be a donor and thus, the need for contributions has become even more critical. To make an online donation, please

1. go to the website http://www.transplantfund.org/index.cfm 
2. click on the "contributions" line in the left-hand corner
3. click on the gold disk "secure contribution"
4. click on the letter "Y"
5. scroll down to Susan's name

Or, you may go from the homepage on Go to a "Patient's Website on the left side."
Type in First Name "Susan" and Last Name "Yellow Horse-Davis" then to scroll to "liver" to get to the same secure A-Z index and make a contribution.

Your generosity helps sustains Susan's faith. Please forward this email to others who may want to help please!

Thank you for supporting Susan's Transplant!