A Dinner For Elizabeth

A dinner dance will be held to raise money for a seven year old local girl in need of help.

Elizabeth was born a healthy, happy baby. All was fine until her check-up at one year old. The doctors told her parents (Lali and John)the baby had elevated liver numbers and her kidneys seemed abnormal. Elizabeth was then tested and treated in many hospitals from state to state and country to country. But nobody could give them a diagnosis or a cause. Elizabeth became very ill and needed dialysis, which her mother did every night. Lali remains to this day Elizabeth's 24-hour nurse. Her life depends on daily medications (11 of them). Her final diagnosis is Tubulo-Interstitial Nephritis and Hepatic Fibrosis. Her liver function continues to deteroirate and she will need a combined liver and kidney transplant in the immediate future to save her life. She remians on the emergency waiting list for pediatric organ donation.

The dinner dance will be held Friday, July 10th at 7 pm at the East Dover Firehouse, 629 Fischer Blvd. in Toms River. Tickets are $40 each. All proceeds will go directly to Elizabeth and her family. Stafford/Toms River UNICO, an Italian-American service organization, is sponsoring the event