Chandler Brown

Chandler’s Future Hope – A Double Lung Transplant

Chandler Brown is a 24-year old living with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease that primarily affects the lungs and digestive system. Over the last two years Chandler has been hospitalized three times, he’s had to go on oxygen, and his lung function dropped to 13%. In January, Chandler was informed that he was in need of a double lung transplant.

Chandler has grown up in Greer, SC and graduated from Greer High School. He wants nothing more than to be able to live a normal life and get a job and be able to work like other peers his age. Chandler has tried to work several times but each time he would end up hospitalized. He has been through so much at such a young age — the decisions and struggles he has dealt with have been things no child should ever have to face. We are committed to seeing Chandler through this transplant towards a healthy and more normal future.

Transplants are lifesaving but financially draining. Chandler’s situation is complicated by rare bacteria, Burkholderia Cepecia, which requires him to travel to Cleveland Clinic to be evaluated by a specialized team of transplant doctors and begin the process of getting listed for transplant. For the evaluation, we will need to make several trips to Cleveland; one trip will be for a week. Even with insurance, Chandler is facing very high expenses in addition to travel for evaluation, including relocation expenses for up to a year to be closer to the hospital, post-transplant medications cost, caregiver expenses, and co-pays, lab fees and more. This is an enormous task and will be very demanding in every aspect on him and our family’s life.

To help with the financial burden of Chandler’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in his honor has been established with Help Hope Live, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law, are held by Help Hope Live in South-Atlantic Lung Transplant Fund, and are administered by Help Hope Live for transplant-related expenses only. Please consider a contribution.

Thank you for your prayers, support and generosity.

Gratefully,

Dawn Brown, Chandler’s mom
864-350-8866