Carter was born February 5, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland to Berine and Earl Carter Sr. He is the 2nd oldest of six children. Carter grew up in a family that had aspirations of having a happy family life. But, unknowing to his young parents, it would require selflessness and sacrifices. Unable and unwilling to fulfill the desires of the other, the marriage went downhill and life became tumultuous for the children. Read some of his story below and give your support.

Carter experienced severe physical and emotional abuse as a child. The kind of physical abuse the many times left him with open wounds or bleeding. Both of his parents, as children, experienced a form of abuse and each one bought that form of abuse to the table in raising their children.  At the age of 15, although his dad had already left the home when he was 13, he couldn't take it anymore so he moved out of the house. He moved into the house that he grew up in that was abandoned and nearly condemned. At that time, there was no heat, no hot water, no kitchen, nothing. The house was gutted on the 1st floor and had rats and fleas like nothing you could imagine. He eventually had to move up to the 3rd level of the house so that he could use a huge speaker to block the steps off to prevent these cat size rates from eating on his toes, while he was sleep, as one had done. 

While he was living alone, he still went to school everyday without any parental direction. He even went to worship God every week. He worked on the side to get money for himself so that he could eat. He always kept in contact with his younger sister, who was 13 when he left, and she would tell him of what she was going through at home living with his mom. He would get so bitter and angry with his mom for the abuse and neglect of his younger brothers and sisters. One day, after he confronted her, his mom told him that if he felt that he could raise the kids better than she, he could take them, so, he did. He and his four younger brothers and sisters, ages 14,10,7,3, lived in that abandoned house for a few months with him. His mom brought food one time but then he brought food that he had to keep in the trunk of his car because the rats would get into the food. He would take his brothers and sister to worship with him every week. 

Carter still managed to graduated from Mergenthaler High school in 1992. His dad didn't come to his graduation, which he was`hurt about that but his dad`did let him use his truck and on graduation night. He did nothing after graduation and didn't have friends because of his arduous life.  Because he focused on his brothers and sisters, he never foraged any friendships and people really didn't understand him and what he was going through. People felt like he acted more like peoples father, so it made it difficult for his peers to connect with him. They didn't know that at the time he was a father and was forced in that position. So, he focused on his own business and tried to make the best out of that. He loved doing home repairs, it made him feel closer to his dad that really didn't care anything about him at that time. He also could never comprehend making dollars per hour. He always went big or thought big, he didn't want to work for anyone. He did work for this guy for two weeks and the guy worked him so hard because of his amazing skills but at the end of the week he told Carter to split his $180 paycheck with another employee. Never again did he work for anyone. He was making really good money at a young age. From graduation to the end of that first year he made almost 34k. The next year from January to September, he made almost 81k. 

When his, then 14 year old sister Tyneshia turned 15, she moved back in with his mom after spending some time living with his dad. It was so hard for her. She lived on the 2nd floor and his mom lived on the 3rd floor behind lock and key. She never gave her a key to the house and his mom had two jobs. So, when his mom left out for work at 7am, she wouldn't be back home until 1 am that night, or the next day, after her 2nd job. His sister was either locked in the house for days or locked out of the house for days. If she wanted to get back into the house, she had to be on the doorstep when his mom came home at 1am. If she wanted to get out of the house in the morning, she had to leave out, with her mom at 7am. One day, he got a call, in February, from his sister asking him could she stay with him because she had been locked out of the house for THREE days, sleeping in the back yard! It was icy cold outside! He was so angry he went down there to get his sister and she moved in with him. He then found out that she dropped out of school and was in danger of not graduating. So, he went up to the school with her, told the principle all that was going on and he let her back in school and she was able to graduate. Tyneshia then continued to stay with him.

His life was more complicated than what is being told but this is just to give you a little idea about Carter. Many nights he could not sleep because of his thoughts racing through his mind and he would pray to God asking him to slow his thoughts down so that he could sleep. He never got involved in a relationship because he didn't have time and he knew that it was morally wrong to do if he was not ready to marry. All he did was work and raise children. For sometime, he began to notice that he was tired all of the time. He then began talking to this girl that he thought was really beautiful. He may have seen her one time, since that started talking, but they talked on the phone often. He was so consumed into his work and his energy levels were wanning.

Carter was making plans to move to Missouri with a client of his that wanted him me to be involved with some really big developmental projects. Well, he started to have doubts about Carter's abilities because he was, seeming to become really lazy. Carter struggled to work but eventually he thought that he was catching the flu. He also thought that he needed a change in scenery so, he went to Delaware to visit his mom's half sister for a week. While he was out there in Delaware, he got really sick so, he came home. When he got home he then had to move in with his mother because of not being able to work. Again, she lived on the 3rd floor and he lived on the 2nd floor. The only way she was going to allow him to stay there is that he had to pay rent. He was willing to do that but for some reason he was really sick and could not work. He was not keeping down food nor did he have the strength to do any work. His mom yelled at him everyday telling him to work and get money because she was struggling. He kept telling her that he was sick but his cried fell upon deaf ears, she never believed him.

Funny as it may sound but, Carter was very cognizant of his breath because being a person that negotiated contracts, with his clients, he wanted his breath to be fresh and respectable. Well, he noticed that his breath began to smell and taste like ammonia. He hated the taste and the smell. So, he decided to go to the hospital. When he went into the hospital, alone, he was feeling very bad but his complaints, to the triage nurse, were that he was feeling bad and his breath stunk. LOL.  Minimizing his complaints, the nurse had him sit in the waiting room for parts of 5 hours! He was so ready to leave but he got into this really good conversation with this lady about the bible and she kept his attention until he then heard, "Earl Carter?" By this time, it was after 1am and they were just taking blood from him. They told him that he was in stroke stag and his blood pressure was 200 something over 140 something. Not knowing the seriousness of that reading, he wasn't worried.

When he went into the back, he fell asleep while waiting for the doctor to tell him what was wrong with him. So, while he was sleeping, this nurse came into the room and began to rub on his legs saying, "I believe in miracles, everything is going to be ok." She kept saying it and rubbing his legs. He was looking at her like she was crazy. Apparently, she thought that the doctor had already told him what the problem was but, he had not. Anyway, she left the room and then the doctor came in and he said to him, "You have acute renal failure." So, Carter said to him, "fix it!" He had no idea what it was and how serious it was. He then said, "I think you need to call your parents because I don't think you are going to make it through the night." Carter looked at him like he was crazy. He couldn't digest what it was that he said to him. After a few minutes, someone came into the room to take him to get some chest x-rays. He stood up to go, still thinking about what the doctor had said to him. After the continual ring of, "You may not make it through the night," ringing in his head, his legs got weak under him and he fell to the floor in tears.

Twenty years old and now Carter was told he was going to die and he needed to be on dialysis. His life looked so bleak. The doctors discussed placing a tube in his abdominal area or placing a shunt in his arm so, Carter decided to get the tube in his stomach so that he could do dialysis, for himself, to himself, every day for ten hours. Because they could not figure out why, at such a young age, did he have renal failure, the doctor asked him some questions. He asked him was he sexually active? Carter told him that he was a virgin. He then asked him, "Have you used any drugs?" He replied, "No." He then asked him, "You were not walking down the street, one day, and see a needle on the ground and say to yourself, 'Oh let me see how that feels'?" He told him, "No." He then asked him, "You don't have any reason to lie, do you?" So, he told Carter that he thought that he might have HIV AIDS. He did the blood tests and at that time it took seven days to get the results.

Carter was in anguish for the entire seven days waiting for the results. Carter knew that there must have been a new way to get AIDS because he knew that he had done nothing to get it and he didn't think that he could leave the hospital without knowing why both of his kidneys shut down. He made a promise to God, while he waited for the results, he told Him that he would never do anything to put himself in the position to get AIDS if it came back that he did not have it. He told him that how he was feeling about the possibility of having HIV AIDS and how horrible it was. If he did have AIDS, from that day on Carter knew that he was going to die and that was so depressing for him. After seven days the doctor came into the room and told him that he did not have HIV AIDS. He told him that he had "acute renal failure with an unknown etiology". 

With feelings of low self worth and severe low self esteem, Carter felt like nothing and none of his family was there for him! He knew, in the back of his mind, that the severe emotional trauma and stress that he experienced as a child is what caused his kidneys to fail. After 20 days, he left the hospital and moved back in with his mom and she didn't want him there. Now its February, he was in the house with no heat because the furnace had gone up and sleeping on a couch bed with no phone in the apartment. Every morning, for about two weeks, when his mom would leave for work, she would leave him the cordless phone but that soon stopped. He never felt so alone and so unloved.
 
He then moved out and in one year, getting only $350.00 disability every month, he lived in 11 different places and then became homeless. He then rented a room from a friend and was depressed so much because of his life but, he always kept a smile on his face despite what he was going through. One night when he went to bed he looked to the heaven and told his creator that he was tired. He really wanted to die. He told him that it was hard for him to believe that he could find the slightest bit of enjoyment out of life. So, he ended the prayer and went to bed crying.

The next day he was walking through the mall and his pager went off. He did not recognize the number so he called the number. When he called, the lady introduced herself and told him that his attorneys friend asked her to give him a call. She thought that he was against getting a kidney transplant. He wasn't against getting a kidney transplant, he just was not certain that the doctor's standard of a good kidney would meet his standards. She then told him about her experience in getting a transplant. Because he was a little apprehensive about getting a cadaveric kidney, (clinically dead person's) she then asked him if he had any brothers and sisters. He told her that he had 5 others but he did not think of asking any one of them. She asked him, "Why?" He told her that three years prior, he was told that the donor would have a scar about 8-12inches long and he did not want anyone of his brothers and sisters to go through that and be scared up like that for him. Well, she then told him that they now have a procedure call a "laparoscopic" procedure where they would remove the kidney through an incision of about an inch long. He then thought about it. He began to daydream about the possibility of getting a kidney and how his life would be. While he was daydreaming, she asked him if he knew which one of his brothers or sisters would be willing to give him a kidney? He started to think again and as soon as his mind began to begin to think about who would be willing, his pager went off. It was his sister Tyneshia! When he saw her number, he immediately cried. He knew that if anyone would do it, she would.

He thanked the lady and got off of the phone. He composed himself, to the best of his ability, but he kept crying. So, with a little rattle in his voice, he called Tyneshia. She, apparently heard something in his voice and she asked him, "Whats wrong?" He then told her that he needed to ask her something. She said, "I'll do it!" He said, "Tyneshia, you do not know what I am going to ask you." She said, You want a kidney, don't you?" He said, Tyneshia, you have to think about it. She said," No!" While he was crying, so hard with shock and feeling that God was directing this, she said, "I want to do this. I hate seeing you like this, I miss spending time with you, I want to do this. Find out what I need to do, I want to do this." Long story short, they were transplanted two months later.

The kidney lasted for six years. Carter travel all over the United States, even as far as South Africa. He took very good care of himself and his doctors told him that whatever shut down his original two kidney's destroyed the one that his sister gave him. He then started dialysis again. Very depressed and missing more of his life now than he did before he lost his kidneys the first time. After his first transplant, he did everything that he always wanted to do except getting married. He travel almost the world. He loves to travel and he has made so many friend all over the place. Well, now he's on dialysis again and he has to go to a unit to get dialyzed three days a week. He can not work, can''t travel, Carter feels like he's in jail but, he copes.

Because Carter struggles to take care of himself because he is unable to work, to be industrious, and so that he can eventually get married, he wrote this book entitled, "Thoughts Of A Man." He wrote this book because Carter knows what it feels like to want to be loved. He know the impact of not having the love of one or two parents, in your life growing up, can have on a young persons ability to identify love. He knows what it feels like to THINK you are doing things that would get you love to only find yourself alone, empty and in want. In his travels he was very sensitive to the plight of many young women today. Looking for love in all the wrong places and, unknowingly, making choices that will make it difficult for them to ever find the love that they so desperately deserve. Also, knowing what it is that he needed, as a man, from a woman and how those qualities would enable a woman to raise children that would thrive because of the love from a mother. Not finding it and seeing the toiling of women looking for love is what moved him to writer this book. It is his hopes that if women understand the fundamental makeup of a man, she could successfully navigate through her dealings with a man to facilitate her getting what it is that she wants and need from a man. 

Carter is now in dyer need of a kidney transplant. He found a lady, who he never met before, who is willing to donate a kidney to him (Georjean Moore on Facebook) and he is scheduled to get another kidney transplant, hopefully very soon. ( He Hopes) Carter really can not afford to take care of all of the responsibilities associated with getting transplanted. "It is so hard when your mind is young but your body is limited".

It is his hopes that anyone who is willing to assist in any way, whether it be to purchase a book or to make a donation by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page, would do so. If there are any updates on anything pertaining to his being transplanted, he will post the day that he is scheduled to get transplanted. He would love it if you were to write him or to send a card if you'd like. Carter has plans to write another book about his life. He want everyone to know that he love his mother no matter what and he loves his dad too. He truly has deep love for his brother's and sister: Trinee, Tyneshia, Janai, Priya and MauSean. He also loves his five nieces T'Keyah, Ty'Anna, TreShaun, Kayla and Ryan. There is nothing that he would not do for any of them.

Carter thanks you for your well wishes and please enjoy his book. If you would like to purchase his book, click here. If you just want to make a donation to assist Carter with his transplant expenses, click the "Donate" button.

Thank you for your support.

                                            UPDATE

As many of you all know Carter was scheduling a kidney transplant via the University of Maryland Medical Center because he has a donor that is willing to donate to him to save his life. The donor has the same blood type but because Carter has antibodies that will fight her kidney, he is unable to get her kidney. Undeterred the donor, that he just met over the internet was sadden by the news. She and her family had come to have affection for Carter because of communicating with him often and visiting him with her husband back in September. They informed Georjean that they had this program that she could still donate in Cater's behalf. Meaning when she donate her kidney they will give it to someone else only after they find one for Carter and the surgery would take place at one time. Excited about this, they both entered that program. They were told that he would be transplanted before Christmas 2009.

As many of you all know Carter was in the hospital for ten days since January 4, 2010. He recieved a text message from Georjean that the Donor Exchange Program was suspended! This news was very disheartening to Carter because now he will NOT be getting a kidney transplant that he so desperately need.  Please Call the University of Maryland and pressure them to restart the Donor Exchange Program and mention his name. The number is 410-328-5408 You can speak to Michele Klein or Her assistant Sharon Bell... And please if you can show your support financially please donate on the link below or click here to purchase Carter's book...