Boy’s Family Can’t Afford Transplant

We would like to comment on an article (“Family Seeks Funds for Boy’s Treatment,” Nov. 4) regarding our grandchild, Jordan McNeill of Fort Collins, Colo., who is awaiting a liver transplant and for whom we are attempting to raise funds to cover the huge cost of the transplant.

The article begins by stating that we, Jordan’s grandparents, “Bought one (a house) for (our) daughter, Noelle McNeill, and her husband to rent from them. . . . “ Since we are seeking help from the public to raise funds, we want people to know that we are not the rich family this would indicate. In fact, the house in Fort Collins is the only house we own; it was bought in 1990 for $80,000 with a very small down payment and has little or no equity at this time.

We rent our home in Anaheim and have both been laid off from our jobs within the past 12 months, though we are now employed. If we had any means whatsoever for raising even a portion of the $250,000 needed we would surely not be soliciting the public for help.

Jordan’s disease, tyrosinemia type 1, always leads to liver cancer and death and we are in a race with time to get Jordan a new liver before the inevitable cancer begins.

Jordan is registered with the Children’s Organ Transplant Assn. (COTA), a nationally recognized tax-exempt charity organization, which manages all contributions made in Jordan’s name.

ED and MARCIA HARRIS

Anaheim