Mother In need of a Double lung transplant

Story

Hello I am Athena. My mother is Aracelis Manso. She is 45 years old and a mother of 3 children and 3  grandchildren.My mom is fun and vibrant and always willing to be there for people when in need. She is a single mom that takes good care of her family. In 2015, my mother became very sick with pneumonia in both of her lungs. In the following months she was not getting better despite a good diet and exercise. They ran tests and discovered that she had an autoimmune disease that attacked my mom’s healthy lung tissue leaving them with Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) and scarred with fibrosis. In 2017, she had  contracted the common cold that lead to respiratory failure and she was in ICU for week. She had recovered from that but the disease has worsened. This disease is progressive and terminal. She is now oxygen dependent due to the decline of lung capacity and has developed pulmonary hypertension as her heart is now working harder to make up for the lack of lung function. If she does not have a transplant her other organs will begin to fail. In light of this  downturn, she has been placed on the UNOS organ transplant list and is in need of a double lung transplant. This is the only cure. Mom is still working full-time and maintaining her healthcare benefits so that she may continue her visits to the transplant center in New York and her team of doctors that help manage the disease and prepare her for transplant. They recently told her that the medications were already starting to cause complications with her other organs. It gets harder every day to move around even with oxygen. Her need for the transplant is getting closer. Even though she currently has health insurance a double lung transplant is costly and a lifelong medical need for best chance of survival. Medications alone will cost hundreds per month. She has to do labs and testing every other month just to keep things under control. My mother is a fighter to say the least. She tries her best to maintain her health to stay on the transplant list. The costs are becoming overwhelming and we worry that there will not be enough funds to make this transplant and treatment happen. We are reaching out to you in hopes that you can help in my mother’sfight against Interstitial Lund Disease (ILD). While we would appreciate reaching the goal, anything you give will be helpful and most appreciative in this fight. Please help me in raising $100,000 to save my mom.