Please Help Glidalís Continue Systemic Lymphedema Treatment

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Please Help Glidalís Continue Systemic Lymphedema Treatment

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She is Glidalis Montanes, my best friend, a 55-year-old professional with a promising future and whose life a lymphedema changed. She taught at the university level classes of human resources, marketing and hospitality; she offered motivational talks and conferences on topics related to people with disabilities.

Her condition of Total Focomelia, absence of bones in the 4 limbs never limited her, but this systemic lymphedema has done so. She has been out of Puerto Rico for a year and 8 months, specifically in Orlando, where her medical team from Orlando Health Dr. Philips and Advent Health Celebration have done the inhuman to give her quality of life and learn to live with this new diagnosis that is not cured, but is controlled.

She has been hospitalized 4 times for cellulite, pneumonia and even sepsis all as a result of the lymphedema she has around her whole body.

I opened this GoFundMe because she still has one year of treatment left, she cannot travel, she cannot work and she has expenses that medical plans and some aids do not cover.

We want Glida to continue in her treatment, a specialized one and where they understand all her medical conditions; the same one she never got in Puerto Rico, I want to have my independent friend back, please help me.

Thank you, Lupe

In the attached photos you will see how she was and how it is now, there is information about her lymphedema and what it causes.

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Ella es Glidalís Montañez, mi mejor amiga, una profesional de 55 años con un futuro prometedor y a quien un lymphedema le cambió la vida. Ella daba clases a nivel universitario de recursos humanos, mercadeo y hotelería; ofrecía charlas de motivación y conferencias de temas relacionados a personas con impedimentos.

Su condición de Focomelia Total, ausencia de huesos en las 4 extremidades nunca la limitó, pero este lymphedema sistémico sí lo ha hecho. Lleva un año y 8 meses fuera de Puerto Rico específicamente en Orlando donde su equipo médico de Orlando Health Dr. Philips y Advent Health Celebration han hecho hasta lo inhumano para darle calidad de vida y que aprenda a vivir con este nuevo diagnóstico que no se cura, pero sí se controla.

Ha estado hospitalizada 4 veces por celulitis, neumonía y hasta sepsis todo a consecuencia del lymphedema que tiene alrededor de todo su cuerpo.

Abrí este GoFundMe porque todavía le queda un año de tratamiento, no puede viajar, no puede trabajar y tiene gastos que los planes médicos y algunas ayudas no cubren.

Queremos que Glida siga en su tratamiento, uno especializado y donde entienden todas sus condiciones médicas; el mismo que nunca consiguió en Puerto Rico, yo quiero tener a mi amiga independiente de vuelta, ayúdame por favor.

Gracias, Lupe

En las fotos adjuntas verán como era y como está ahora, hay información de su lymphedema y lo que ocasiona.


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Luzely Aviles
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Orlando, FL
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