One Breath Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide pre and postoperative resource information, and support for patient who have been placed on waiting lists for sold organ transplants. Solid organ transplant can consist of the following organs: heart, lung, liver, and kidneys. When a person is diagnosed with a disease organ they are often facing obstacles that stand in the way of them getting their transplant. One of the major issues is co-payments. Co-payments are needed to pay for testing that is critical to the patient for admittance to a waiting list. This is a problem that sees insignificant given the circumstance patients are dealing with, such as cooping with life threatening illnesses and managing overwhelming financial stress that is felt within the family. To One Breath Foundation, this is a battle it is more than willing to fight. Not only will One Breath Foundation help with co-payments after surgery for life sustaining medication, but is also helps the patients and families overcome these difficult times by providing emotional support. One Breath Foundation is mad up of transplant survivors who have been through the same experiences and have learnd to live again. Gloria Rodriguez is the founder of One Breath Foundation and also a survivor of a double lung transplant. On July 9, 00 she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) IPF is defined as a distinctive type of chronic fibrosis interstitial pneumonia. the most common symptoms is Dyspenia (difficulty breathing), but also include Nonproductive Cough, clubbing (a disfigurement of the fingers), and crackles (crackling sound in lungs during inhalation). Gloria had to learn to live with an oxygen tank (seven month prior to the diagnosis of IPF) everyday a week. For the first three years, she learned to live and deal with the disease but as time continued IPF progressed and she lost the ability to walk. In February 05 , Gloria was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension is an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery. Gloria seemed to be at her breaking point when she received a phone call. It was May 5, 05 and this was the phone call Gloria and her family had been waiting for, it was her time for another chance at life: they found a donor and Gloria immediately relocated to Northern California and was admitted to Stanford University Medical Center. After nine months of successful recover she started the support group for transplant recipients. Gloria started the One Breath Foundation meets every third Sunday of each month at the Norwalk Social Services Center. If you or anyone you know could benefit form One Breath Foundation Please contact Gloria Rodriguez at One Breath Foundation PO Box 59424 Norwalk, Ca. 90650 or email Glorry2God@aol.com