The Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation

Forget Me Not

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:15:04 +0000

By Terri Carlson I want to tell you about a very special little girl, Maryam. She was born in Iraq, with a deforming germ cell tumor on her face and because of her deformity, her father put her in a room, without food or water, to let her die. Her mother Rasha, a very [...]

Making a Difference

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:05:08 +0000

By Laurence M. Epstein, M.D. Nadia Al-Azzawi, a 50 year old woman from Baghdad, suffered for 3 years with recurrent fevers, sweats and weight loss. She was chronically ill, unable to work and trying to raise three children with no help. In 2003, she was having many black-out spells and a physician implanted a cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in her chest [...]

UPDATE: The Egyptian Twins

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:48:39 +0000

The cameras were rolling and the microphones were switched on at The Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation this September when former conjoined twins Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim Gad walked into our offices with their parents. It was an emotional reunion with these two dear boys who greeted us with loving hugs and kisses, enthusiastic [...]

Letters from Rwanda

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:31:39 +0000

Erneste Simpunga is an 18 year-old boy from Rwanda who was in distress with class III heart failure symptoms for 3 years. He was suffering from severe mitral stenosis and needed tricuspid valve replacement in order to live. Fortunately, a visiting cardiac surgical team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital was able to arrange his life-saving [...]

A Boy To Remember

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:32:37 +0000

By Eileen Tye I recall being fascinated when I was a kid by the Reader’s Digest feature called “My Most Unforgettable Character” that appeared in every issue. It was always an inspirational description of someone living up to his potential, and I admit to meeting some real interesting people in those pages. As an adult I’ve [...]

Ray Tye Honored: 2009 Justice and Compassion Award

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:36:28 +0000

The 2009 Justice and Compassion Award was recently presented to Ray Tye by Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of Boston in recognition of a life that exemplifies Catholic Charities’ mission of service to those in need. “During these hard times when so many are forced to rely on the services of Catholic Charities we see them do so [...]

The Journey of Doug Paquette

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:13:13 +0000

This story begins like so many others: A baby is born with a problem that medical science has not yet figured out how to handle. But instead of the expected tragic ending, our story plays out to a miraculously joyous conclusion. The patient is Doug Paquette, a 39 year-old man from New Hampshire, who was born [...]

Because we owe them something

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:25 +0000

From the time we were kids we’ve heard that we have duties and obligations to honor and fulfill. Over the course of a lifetime, those duties and obligations change for most of us and become more complex and difficult to embrace. Contrary to what some people think, the words duty and obligation are not synonymous. [...]

ALERT! Beware of Kevin Trudeau’s Book, Free Money

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:52:35 +0000

In his latest book, Free Money, author Kevin Trudeau gives faulty information about this Foundation’s mission, implying that we will pay for medical bills and prescription costs in any and all health-related situations. PLEASE BE AWARE that The Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation is dedicated to providing medical and surgical care to individuals who have life-threatening [...]

UPDATE: THE EGYPTIAN TWINS

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:50:26 +0000

<strong>If you were to count up the hours that doctors, nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists and others </strong>have spent with formerly conjoined twins Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim Gad since their marathon 34 hour surgery in October of 2003, you would come up with a total of years. In looking at the boys today, [...]