Leslie Lozano

Leslie Lozano is 51 and four years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare lung disease called Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome. The disease makes it increasingly difficult to move air into the lungs until the airways become so narrowed that eventually, constant oxygen therapy is required. Currently, Leslie uses oxygen at night to sleep and also when she is active, which is frequently as she manages a busy coffee house. The possibility of a lung transplant was always in the future playbook for her disease, but became a reality as her lung function declined this past year; Leslie is now on the active lung transplant list.

Leslie is currently working and will continue to do so until she gets her lung transplant. However after transplant, she will have to take a medical leave from work and she will need support from family, friends, and the community to with the out-of-pocket transplant related expenses including the costly anti-rejection medications that she will have to take for the rest of her life.

To help with the financial burden of Leslie’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in her 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 the North-Central Lung Transplant Fund, and are administered by Help Hope Live for transplant-related expenses only. Please consider making a contribution.

Thank you in advance for your well wishes and support.

Gratefully,

The family of Leslie Lozano