Jim is in the hospital again getting tuned-up. His four weeks of being home, came to an end Tuesday night. Ajax cried for thirty minutes straight after Jim left ..On a good note, he will be feeling stronger for his all day visit with the University Of Maryland Transplant Team on Sept 25. The hope of a lung transplant is getting closer by the end of October Jim will have finished all the pre-transplant testing. If this dream of being able to breathe comes true, Jim has hopes of returning to the Hill again to advocate for affordable health care .  

I would like to thank all of you for your continued support and donations to COTA in honor of Jim. We have some angels working in Vienna where Jim grew up to help raise funds for COTA, Becky Ballenger and her daughter Ashley Ballenger .  Love all of you !