Aloha from O`ahu, Hawai`i. Yes, this is where Honolulu and Waikiki is and I live only 15 minutes from town and even less to the Beach.

After being the only State in the Union without snow or record cold temperatures, you all will say "what does he have to COMPLAIN about?"

Well, to start, March 15, 2010 will be the 24th year DIAGNOSED HIV+, then and since, as an Educator to our Youth, & opening my own Not for Profit Organization called West O`ahu Hope For A Cure Foundation, Inc. So, you must be thinking life is good but only G-d is good, because one of the only medications left to keep me alive, killed my kidney function. I have had so many different tubes coming out of me, to keep me alive on a Ventilator, while I kept on pulling out the ports they were putting in.

Hey, I was full of Morphine, to the hilt, I certainly didn't mean to be a difficult Patient, and I had no idea what was happening, but it was MY dilemma, yet my Mother was by my side when I couldn't even notice and every day after, because FAMILY or in Hawai`ian your `Ohana is 1st and they are your #1 advocate, but now I need the biggest gift to ask for. "The Gift of Life" by donating your good organs to Patients who needs Kidneys, Livers, Hearts, Eyes, Ears and I could go on but I won't frighten you. I need your attention and help in this matter, OK!!

Six out the past eight weeks I have spent in the Hospital, including Christmas, Chanukah, my Birthday and New Years. I spent them in a Hospital fighting for my Life. I presently have been discharged and am on Dialysis 3 days a week for 4 hours, so 12 hours of my Life are spent cleaning and removing, what the kidney function has not.

I am in an extreme need for a Kidney Transplant, and the foolish interpretation of the semantics used behind Federal Rules, not a LAW, which of course would receive the STIGMA, Attitudes and Practices, including Medical, only make things worse! IT MUST STOP THIS YEAR SO I NEED YOUR HELP!

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION PAGE AHEAD, BECAUSE EVERY SIGNATURE COUNTS!

I have been turned down & denied the "Gift of Life" by the Transplant Team of the State of Hawai`i; The ACLU is working n this case as well. 

G-D BLESS YOU ALL!

Peace and Aloha,
Joseph Rattner, O. D., MHA, CSAC
Founder & President: West O`ahu Hope For A Cure Foundation, Inc. WOHFAC

"When it comes to Change, our Voices Speak in Numbers,
Once Change is Implemented, Positive Results Prosper" JBR