Can you help? Franklin Lakes man desperately needs kidney
Tony Matarazzo is a Franklin Lakes man who desperately needs a kidney.
He lives with his wife of 42 years, Eileen, has four children and nine grandchildren, with twins on the way to make it 11. He s retired, too, but owned a freight forwarding business.
Here s his story in his own words, which he emailed to me. My name is Anthony (Tony) Matarazzo and I’m asking for your help. I was born in Paterson, N.J. and grew up in Hawthorne. I was diagnosed with hypertension at age 40, and at nearly the same time began to have problems with gout and kidney stones. I had many gout and kidney stone attacks in my 40s until the doctors got me stabilized with the right medications. As is the case with other chronic kidney disease patients, the combination of hypertension and kidney stones is deadly for the kidneys.
A firefighter recruit who was following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather died on Tuesday after collapsing during training nearly a week ago.
Victor Melillo, 21, of Irvington, was jogging in the parking lot of the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Parsippany around 9:30 a.m. on March 4, New Jersey FMBA president Ed Donnelly told New Jersey 101.5. He was sent to Morristown Medical Center.
Melillo had no known underlying medical condition, according to Donnelly. He was a recruit with FMBA Local 14. It s just one of those tragic accidents. Young kid, way too young. You couldn t ask for better conditions to have some kind of situation, Donnelly said. You had 55 firefighters around him, some were EMT s so they started CPR immediately as he fell and continued CPR to the hospital and they wound up getting a pulse back at the hospital. He was oxygen deprived for just a little too long.
Awaiting life-saving heart transplant, Union City woman still staying positive
Adele Pullins. Photo courtesy of the NJ Sharing Network.
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In 2018, Pullins experienced some breathing issues that she thought simply was part of her bronchial asthma condition that she has struggled with since she was in high school.
However, things took a turn for the worse as she felt “extreme gurgling” in her chest and her nebulizer failed to provide any relief.
“I felt immobile and I could not breathe whether I was sitting, standing or laying back. I was very scared, and it felt like I was drowning from the inside,” Pullins said.
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