Friends and colleagues of a Dayton woman in need of a kidney transplant have established a GoFundMe page to help with expenses while waiting for a donor. Brittany Stanley is a mother, wife and is known by many customers working at the North Carson Street Starbucks in Carson City.
Brittany’s condition has worsened to the point where she is no longer able to work. Supervisor Corrine Taylor spoke Monday with Brittany, who is hospitalized with kidney failure and is on donor lists in both San Francisco as well as Salt Lake City.
Taylor hopes the community will contribute in anyway they can to help defray costs for her extensive care, visits, travel and the surgery.
GoFundMe account organizer Emily Neal has this to say about Brittany, her condition and the help needed:
Hi, my name is Emily, and I have created this GoFundMe for one of my best friends Brittany. I know times are hard for everyone right now, but I am hoping that with the work of all good, together, we can help an amazing family who deserves it. Brittany is a mother to a bright boy named Asher, an amazing wife to her husband Darren, a sister, an aunt and an absolutely amazing friend.
Brittany was diagnosed type 1 diabetic at the young time of second grade. Since then, it has been a brutal disease that has ravaged her body along with destroying multiple organs including her eyes, but most severely, her kidneys. Brittany is in the end stage, stage five kidney failure. She is in need of a transplant.
With that said, when being referred to for this transplant, she then discovered she had the opportunity to get a new pancreas, which would make her no longer diabetic and she would be given a prolonged life with her new kidney.
This is such an extensive and dangerous surgery, that she’s had to meet many quotas such as many exams, biopsies, weekly blood work, heart procedures, and losing 40 pounds, which she has all succeeded with doing.
After an extremely long journey, Brittany has finally been given the green light to go active on the transplant list, which Brittany is wanting so so badly so she is able to experience her son growing up. I reach out for help because after the extensive care for visits, traveling, and ultimately surgery itself, it’s impossible to afford nowadays.
Please, if you’ve come this far, anything and everything counts. And thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to read this.
Go here for the GoFundMe account page.
