Long Islanders donate to Brentwood mom in need of double lung transplant
Annamarie Patterson, a Brentwood mom with scleroderma, is in need of a double lung transplant. She says she’s been denied three times because she lives in a shelter.
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Annamarie Patterson is a Brentwood mother of five in desperate need of a double lung transplant. She is in constant pain and her lung capacity is at just 40%.
She says she has been denied the transplant three times because of her housing situation: She lives in a shelter with her children.
The nonprofit Legacy Development Corporation has been helping Patterson. The organization started a GoFundMe to get her housing for a year.
The goal is $30,000 and after News 12 aired Patterson’s story, thousand of dollars were donated.
Lisa Adams, executive director of Legacy Development Corporation, said a News 12 viewer who’d seen the story showed up at her office with a very generous check.
The GoFund me is still thousands of dollars short of the goal as of Wednesday night.
Patterson is hoping for a Christmas miracle. She has a meeting with a hospital in January which she hopes will result in transplant approval.
She says she just wants to see her kids grow up.
