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Paula MacDonald

Middletown, OH

Paula MacDonald and she has been a dispatcher in Middletown, Ohio since 1999. She is an awesome dispatcher and is loved by everyone here. She has even won Dispatcher of the Year for our department in the past. Her husband has serious kidney disease for quite some time. He was working until the doctor told him that he needed to quit work, it was just too much for him.

Paula is the only income and they have two young children, ages 11 and 10 months. But there's a twist! Gar (Paula's husband) was told he would need a new kidney. So then the search began for a match. After several weeks of searching and testing it was found that Paula was the only match for Gar, she is giving him her kidney on January 2nd. Paula will be off work the whole month of January. They will both be down for quite a while, unable to lift anything including their baby, no standing etc.

I cannot imagine trying to take care of two very sick people and two small children without help. Myself and another dispatcher are coming up with ways to help. Teri Gibson, one of my dispatchers, has gotten a schedule together for food to be made and dropped off for every day of the week and I'm working on the money end of this since they have one income and two house payments. (the agency is working on a fund at a local bank - look for updates on the www.911cares.com site.)

Any and all help is appreciated in these trying times for them, especially with Christmas right around the corner. I can't think of anyone more deserving than Paula, she is the nicest, most genuine person here and I would love to make her life a little easier right now.

Cards, letters, prayers and donations are greatly appreciated. The address is:

Middletown Police Department
The MacDonald Family
Attn: Shelley Meehan
One Donham Plaza Middletown, Ohio 45042

Shelley Meehan - (513) 425-7721 - shelleym@ci.middletown.oh.us

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