Mabel Cleveland

Woohoo – Mabel Received Her Transplant!!
Now we need help with transportation costs for Clinic visits and other post-transplant expenses

Here is her story:

My Sister Desperately Wants to Live

Right now, my sister Mabel is in the hospital with lung failure due to Advanced Interstitial Fibrosis, a terminal lung disease. This is as serious as it gets. Her lungs are damn near useless. She is close to death. She has been hospitalized a half dozen times in the last year since her initial diagnosis. Each time, she almost died and brilliant, dedicated, compassionate medical professionals have saved her.

Blessings and heartfelt thanks to all caregivers, family and friends that have kept her going, especially the extraordinary people who work in the Emergency and Intensive Care Departments.

We are hoping she can be stabilized and go back home to wait for donor lungs to become available. It’s been a race against time this last year, trying to get her qualified and listed for a transplant before the disease kills her.

I brought Mabel here to Western Mass from Birmingham Alabama, where the doctors had essentially sent her home to die after her first serious hospitalization. She was unable to work and consequently lost her job, her apartment, and had to give up her beautiful, beloved dog Iris to adoption. Sis simply wasn’t capable of taking care of Iris or herself. We moved her here, and began the process of keeping her alive and restoring some quality to her life, by signing her up with Masshealth. Thankfully, the healthcare system here doesn’t just send you home to die.

Mabel has been approved by the transplant team and insurance will cover a double Lung Transplant for Mabel at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. As you may already know, there are a lot of expenses that even a nearly million dollar operation does not cover. The HelpHopeLive site (https://helphopelive.org/about/our-advantage/) explains these in detail.

My name is Phil and I have been my sister’s primary caregiver for a year now. I am doing all I can to support her with help from all of you. Thank you so much for everything you do and have done to make things better for Mabel.

Your contribution here is tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law, and will help this strong, beautiful woman get through her life-saving but arduous journey. She really, really wants to live. You can help make that happen.

Many people have already contributed to help us get reliable transportation. Now we are asking for your help to cover the expenses of supporting her through one of the most complex, profound and harrowing medical procedures out there – a double lung transplant.

So please make a donation right now, everything helps. And you know this is an urgent request, no one knows when donor lungs will become available, and all the docs are saying it HAS TO HAPPEN SOON!

Donating through Help Hope Live (https://helphopelive.org/about/our-advantage/) guarantees that your donation will be used properly.

So please make a donation now and know you are helping Mabel and the support team get through the upcoming trials and traumas.

Thank you and remember every bit helps!

Family and friends of Mabel Cleveland are raising money for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to fund uninsured medical expenses associated with transplantation.

Mabel has chosen to fundraise for Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility to the full extent allowed by law for contributors. Contributors can be sure donations will be used to pay or reimburse medical and related expenses. To make a tax-deductible donation to this fundraising campaign, click on the Give button.

For more information, please contact Help Hope Live at 800.642.8399.

Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 100
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
800.642.8399

Thank you for your support!