About Brieanna Yowell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"One of my goals is to be able to cheer again because when I cheer I forget about the pain and struggling I have to deal with in my life. I always feel like a different person when I cheer. Instead of the sick Brieanna, I feel like the strong Brieanna who can stand up to anything."

Brieanna Yowell has Cystic Fibrosis for which there is no cure. Like many girls her age, she is a cheerleader, but she cannot always participate in the strenuous activities that the rest of her team members accept as routine.

After years of treatment , in October of 2007, Brieanna's doctors recommended the double lung transplant, which will take place at Shands Children's Hospital, an affiliate of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

The cost of a transplant can often exceed $500,000 for both the operation and the post operative aftercare. Friends of Brieanna, with the assistance of the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA), have come together to assist Brieanna and her family through this trying time, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!