Jun 29, 2021
Former owner-operator Eddie Spearmon of Fayetteville, North Carolina, awaits a kidney transplant. He s shown here in a picture from the early part of this century provided by his daughter, Shakirah Spearmon.
What s in Eddie Spearmon s future? The former owner-operator turns 57 in early August, for one. If everything goes according to plan, he ll also soon be the recipient of a kidney transplant and begin recovery and a hoped-for return to the road, he told me this morning. After nearly six years away from OTR, he said, It’s in my heart, and I just want to get out there.
Spearmon, who s based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure in 2015. His daughter Shakirah Spearmon said this has led to dialysis treatments that now occur in six-hour sessions three times a week. If he doesn’t go to the dialysis clinic, he gets really sick, she said. Her father s predicament has been compounded by repeated surgeries to remove his kidne
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Robert Little Eagle Smith could be sent home from the hospital on hospice care this week because he can’t afford a heart transplant.
“If you don’t have the money, you don’t get an organ, you don’t get put on the list. That’s just how it works,” said his stepdaughter, Katrina Fetterolf Delgado. “When I read that I said ‘Wow,’ and when they said that regarding my dad I said, ‘That just sounds crazy. That can’t be right.’ ”
A heart transplant in the U.S. costs about $1,382,400, according to the nonprofit National Foundation for Transplants. Insurance usually covers around 80% of that, leaving Smith and his family with an estimated copay of over $260,000.