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Friday, May 3, 2013

Communities Rally Behind Woman in Need of Lung Tranplant

The Drama Group, based in Chicago Heights, is hosting, 'A Night For Josie,' a fundraising event to help offset H-F High School graduate Josie Nordman's medical bills. Nordman is in need of a lung transplant.

After a month in which the Homewood-Flossmoor community banded together to help Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduate Josie Nordman through local businesses, they're rising to the challenge again, with the help of neighbors in Chicago Heights, digging deep. On Saturday, May 11, the Drama Group of Chicago Heights, 330 W. 202nd Street, will host, 'An Evening for Josie,' in an effort to continue raising money for Nordman's treatments. Nordman suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that has left her with less than 15-percent function in her lungs.  "We heard about Josie and we just thought, 'How can we not help,'" said Tina Zagone, a spokersperson for the Drama Group. " After hearing about the struggles of Nordman, the community came …

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

How You Can Help Save a Homewood Girl’s Life

19-year-old Josie Nordman needs a lung transplant to survive but the famly can’t foot the $75,000 bill on their own.

This article was updated at 5 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2013 Josie Nordman of Homewood was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a chronic and frequently fatal lung disease, when she was only four months old. Now, at 19, the Northwestern University sophomore is left with only 22 percent of her lung function. Last December, she was added to the lung transplant list. A transplant is her only hope of surviving. Unfortunately, that hope comes with a hefty $50,000 to $75,000 price tag for the family after insurance is taken into consideration. “We are struggling to pay our monthly bills due to so many medical costs that we have no idea how to come up with this kind of money,” Josie’s mother Nicolle Nordman said on Facebook. “We need a miracle …” Nicolle …

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11:22 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013

https://www.facebook.com/events/191898460955961/?context=create This fundraiser has been set up by a 1988 HF graduate who was a perfect stranger to me until yesterday. She saw an article about Josette Nordman and wanted to help. Her name is Caryn Monis. I am so touched by her and her kindness I don't even know what to say. Here is more about her: I graduated from HF back in 1988. I live in …   more ›

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