{"id":4,"date":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforcolemansfight\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:40:48","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;padding-left: 40px\">UPDATE: LISTED FOR TRANSPLANT \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb<span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--system)\">\u00a0Thank you to all the donors for making this journey possible. We love y\u2019all and will keep updating. God has a plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><br \/><\/a>My name is Coleman Drew. I am 27 years old, born and raised in Montgomery, AL. I have been my dad\u2019s right-hand man at his remodeling business for years. As my health has declined, I have found a new passion in doing short hauls for people. My hobbies consist of hunting, and I love all things ATV and of course older Cummins diesels. I was diagnosed at 18 months old with Cystic Fibrosis, spent most of my childhood in and out of the hospital setting. At the age of 15 I underwent a double lung transplant. My body took to these new lungs like God made them for me. For years I thrived. Doing the things all normal teenage boys do. Fast forward to now, I find myself in need of another double lung transplant. I am now awaiting yet another miracle that God can fit me with the perfect lungs once again.<\/p>\n<p>We have partnered with COTA for assistance with transplant-related expenses. Please consider donating to COTA in my honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) helps children who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support. COTA also works with individuals of any age with a single-gene disorder such as Polycystic Kidney Disease, Cystic Fibrosis or Sickle Cell Disease. COTA is the nation\u2019s only fundraising organization solely dedicated to raising life-saving dollars in honor of transplant-needy families. 100% of each contribution made to COTA in honor of our patients helps meet transplant-related expenses. COTA\u2019s services are free of charge and gifts to COTA are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: LISTED FOR TRANSPLANT \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb\u00a0Thank you to all the donors for making this journey possible. We love y\u2019all and will keep updating. God has a plan. My name is Coleman Drew. I am 27 years old, born and raised in Montgomery, AL. I have been my dad\u2019s right-hand man at his remodeling business for years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforcolemansfight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}