To help Robin with the financial requirements for a life saving double lung transplant please contact her at www.gofundme.com/Saving-Robin or you can make a donation to the Robin B. Jackson Donation fund at the Wells Fargo Bank of Calhoun. There will also be a Robin Jackson Brown benefit open to the public for October 6th at Oostanula Community Center. Look to the Calhoun Times calendar for more information
It started with a cough. While recovering from a stay in the hospital, Robin Brown Jackson asked the doctors to look into her dry cough. She’d never smoked a day in her life. Tests were run and she was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis.
“My cough wouldn’t go away. They found a dark place on my lungs that turned out to be the problem,” said Robin.
For most people with Sarcoidosis, living day to day is manageable and 95 percent of those with the disease will go into remission, but for Robin, damage to her lungs worsened.
“I was diagnosed in 1993 and for a long time I was able to stay active but in the last three years it’s gotten progressively worse,” she said.
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