| On February 19th, 2007 WCBS-TV televised it's report by Dana Tyler called 9/11 First Responders: 'We're Dead Men Walking'' You can see the report by clicking HERE |
| Sean Hannity's America featured the Heroism & Patriotism of John Feal and his selfless work through his FealGood Foundation. Before you go to www.fealgoodfoundation.com please read this excerpted Newsday article. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<< Man to donate kidney to stranger Permanently injured Ground Zero worker met patient online By STACEY ALTHERR, Newsday January 7, 2007 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<< / / |
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Permanently disabled during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center, he dedicated his life to helping others. Now, he is giving even more than money or time - he is donating a precious kidney to a former New York man he met over the Internet. "He went to my Web site, www. fealgoodfoundation.com, and told me what good work I was doing," Feal said of Paul Grossfeld, a former Queens resident who now lives in Marlboro, N.J. After Grossfeld told him he needed a kidney, Feal didn't think twice. "I told him, I'll do it." Seven days after the terrorist attacks, Feal was working demolition at Ground Zero when an 8,000-pound steel beam fell onto his left foot. The man next to him fainted when he saw the blood spurting from the injury. Feal, an Army veteran from Long Island, N.Y., made a tourniquet out of his belt and yelled for help. After doctors at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan stabilized the foot with pins, gangrene set in. Feal lost half his foot. Through his recovery, he said he felt his life spiraling downward. He couldn't work, he had to cope with excruciating pain, and, most of all, he had to deal with the unending frustration of trying to get disability benefits. But Feal, 40, turned his misfortune into a will to help others. He started the FealGood Foundation, which helps injured Sept. 11 first responders and workers navigate the maze of paperwork for disability payments and medical treatment. He also raises money for those financially devastated by the event. Grossfeld, in the meantime, had his own crisis. He was in desperate need of a kidney. Grossfeld spent 25 years as a volunteer paramedic in Queens and later on Long Island, where he lived before moving to New Jersey. Two years ago, he was coaching baseball when a player told him he didn't look well. Grossfeld, 55, who has diabetes, was in kidney failure. He is now on dialysis three days a week. A transplanted kidney is his only chance for a normal life, he said, but every time it looked like he might get one, the opportunity fell through. Disillusioned, Grossfeld said he was surfing the Internet one night when he found Feal's Web site. He wrote Feal and asked whether he could link his Web site requesting a kidney to Feal's. "He called the next morning and introduced himself," Grossfeld said. "He said, 'You got yourself a kidney.' " Although they are not the same blood type, they said they have been deemed compatible by the renal transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan and will know in two weeks the date of the surgery. Copyright 2007, KnoxNews. All Rights Reserved. URL:http://www.knoxnews. com/kns/health_and_fitness/article/0,1406, KNS_310_5261842,00.html |
/ / / / / / / / / / / This is how WCBS-TV described the report on their website: 9/11 First Responders: 'We're Dead Men Walking' Years After Attacks, Many Face Reality Death May Be Near Dana Tyler---Reporting...Feb 19, 2007 12:36 am US/Eastern (CBS) NEW YORK...More than five years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the full impact of that day is still unknown. First responders who rushed into the collapsing buildings are dealing with health issues they believe could be just the tip of the iceberg. CBS 2 spoke to many who now say they are dead men walking. First responders charged toward ground zero on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, united in their mission. "I saw the second plane hit, both towers come down," Vito Valente said. "It went from day to night." "When things are at their very worst is when we are at our very best," Mike McCormack added. "It subsequently changed my life forever." Today, seven out of every 10 suffer from respiratory disease. And that's just the beginning. "My wife to this day is still pulling pieces of glass out of my back," John Feal said. "I have nose bleeds on a regular basis, ringing of the ears, can't sleep." CBS 2 spoke to just six of the 33,000 people who are now being treated after working at ground zero. As time goes by, new health problems emerge, some unexplained. "I have a rash that's in the back of my leg now," Valente said. "The fear is that most of us are going to get some kind of cancer in our esophagus," Feal said. They also suffer from massive migraines, unexplained rashes and aches and pains that defy explanation. Dr. Jacqueline Moline of Mount Sinai's Monitoring and Treatment Program said she's often powerless. "We're hearing the same complaints over and over and over again," Moline said. Mount Sinai monitors nearly 20,000 first responders on a continual basis. "There is no doubt in the minds of any of us who've seen the thousands of responders that their health had been adversely affected by these exposures," Moline said. For many, the picture is grim. "We will unfortunately outnumber those people who died on 9/11," one of the responders said. "Vito Valente is going to die. Mike McCormack is going to die." Valente needs a double-lung transplant. McCormack has a piece of metal embedded in his lung after volunteering for eight days at ground zero. McCormack found the flag that flew atop the Twin Towers. "It was 1,100 degrees, dark and dusty," McCormack said. Feal's foot was crushed from falling metal. "I ended up getting wedged in and buried beneath the ground," Feal said. Vinny Forras was honored by President Bush. He escaped after being trapped. Acts of heroism that came at a high price, physically and emotionally. "It's like walking through a door which you can never return from," one of the responders said. All of the men said they've had to show proof they worked at ground zero. All of them now also suffer from sleep problems. (© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) |
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a non-profit organization, is to spread awareness and educate the public about the catastrophic health effects on 9/11 first responders, as well as to provide assistance to relieve these great heroes of the financial burdens placed on them over the last five years. A secondary goal of our Foundation is to create a network of advocacy on 9/11 healthcare issues. We not only advocate for Ground Zero workers, but show others how they can advocate for themselves and help others through grassroots activism. |
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