Help Gloria Fight Lupus & End Stage Kidney Disease
Help Aunt Gloria on Her Journey to Recovery
We are so grateful for all of your love, prayers, and generosity during Aunt Gloria’s transplant journey. She recently underwent a successful kidney transplant and is now in recovery. However, the road ahead comes with significant challenges, including securing affordable housing in Nashville as she continues to heal and receive follow-up care.
To help cover the costs associated with housing and ongoing medical expenses, we’re also accepting direct contributions via Cash App at $nobenig. Every contribution—whether through GoFundMe or Cash App—will provide her with the stability she needs to recover fully.
Your support means everything to us. Please consider sharing this link with your friends and family to help spread the word. Together, we can make a difference in Aunt Gloria’s journey to renewed health.
Thank you for your kindness, generosity, and continued prayers.
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Hello, our names are Shanelle Cole and Cheynae Coleman, and we are fundraising for our aunt, Gloria Mann. We know Gloria has many dear friends from her 25 years as Operations Manager at Emory University School of Law, her volunteer work with orphans in Jamaica, church, community, civic and social organizations though she has lost touch with many during the course of her illness.
Some of you know that Gloria was diagnosed with Lupus in 1996 and had to retire on disability in 2010. Since that time Gloria has lived on a limited income even as she cared for her mother, who died in 2021 at the age of 95 of Alzheimer’s disease. We know that many of Gloria’s friends are unaware of the extent of her medical, and consequently financial, difficulties. We have started this GoFundMe at the urging of some of Gloria’s friends who have said that they and others would be happy to help her financially to afford the care she desperately needs.
Gloria’s Lupus has wreaked havoc on much of her body, with the most serious consequences for her heart and kidneys. For the past 11 months. Gloria has been on dialysis which consumes 5 hours a day 3 days a week for end stage kidney disease. While this dialysis has kept Gloria alive, its side effects of debilitating cramps, nausea, weakness and blackouts have made life increasingly painful and difficult.
Most recently, doctors found a tumor on her left kidney; that kidney must now be removed. Dialysis cannot sustain Gloria long term. She now needs a kidney transplant. One of Gloria’s friends from her Emory days said, “Gloria was such a key person at Emory Law School. She took care of many functions that made the place run, but just as significantly she was a sounding board and comforting friend for scores of law students, staff and faculty.” Gloria has always been a caregiver-- to those at Emory, to the orphans in Jamaica, to her mother, and to friends in need.
We urge those of you who can help to please do so now. Though Gloria never married or had children of her own, she feels privileged to count former Emory law students, nieces and nephews, and hundreds of young men orphaned in a boy's school in Jamaica as her own. She has spent much of her life caring and giving to others. One of her greatest needs now is to afford caregivers, transportation and assistance with medical expenses. Her greatest desire is to again be able to do the service that brings her and others joy.
Please give as generously as you can. Of course the greatest gift anyone can give Gloria is a kidney. Yes, we all have a spare! If you are willing to be tested to see if you are a match for Gloria, please read more at the links listed below:
piedmonttransplant.org
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