The fundraising goal has recently been updated per a conversation between Nicole and Rick Lofgren, COTA President & CEO. This letter below from Rick explains the recent change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greetings from COTA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to congratulate the COTA for Nicole M <\/em>volunteer team for beginning to raise funds for the campaign in honor of Nicole!<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I set the campaign fundraising goals with each of our families, I suggest a goal to COTA patients that I believe is needed for any patient\u2019s long-term expenses and transplant-related costs, and the goal generally reflects the next four to five years of out-of-pocket costs. For example, most of our patients will have $5,000 to $10,000 in annual co-payments, deductibles, and medications, as well as additional costs for an extended in-patient stay, clinic visits and a similar amount for travel to the transplant center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case I spoke with Nicole this past week and suggested that we raise the goal in this case due to the follow-up care and her need for another transplant. Because of this, I have changed the goal for the COTA for Nicole M <\/em>campaign to $100,000 to reflect what I believe will be actual costs going forward based on her ongoing transplant care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please know there are many factors in this and that I bear the responsibility of justifying this to anyone who asks, and am happy to do this as I believe that it is the right thing to do given Nicole\u2019s health status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you for all the work and support you have provided to this point, and please keep her in your prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fundraising goal has recently been updated per a conversation between Nicole and Rick Lofgren, COTA President & CEO. This letter below from Rick explains the recent change: Greetings from COTA! I want to congratulate the COTA for Nicole M volunteer team for beginning to raise funds for the campaign in honor of Nicole! When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/COTAforNicoleM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}