When Mitzi’s Table owners Matt and Susan Roth heard about the health issues regular customer Nicole Seefeldt was dealing with, they decided to take things into their own hands and help with a “cookies for Nicole” fundraiser.

For $2.50 customers could choose from among sugar, chocolate chip, chocolate white chocolate chip cookies or chocolate cranberry scones, with all proceeds going to Seefeldt. Roth said he hoped to raise $1,000 to assist Seefeldt with medical costs associated with her need for a double lung transplant. “It’s the least we could do,” said Roth who noted that Seefeldt was a Bethlehem Township resident who comes to Mitzi’s with friends often.

In a telephone interview Seefeldt said she received nearly $2,000 from the fundraising initiative.

Seefeldt is 38 years old and is a native of South Dakota who lived in New York City for ten years before moving to the Lehigh Valley five years ago. She says that she will go on a transplant waiting list in 2016 and that she’s been told it will probably take about six months until lungs become available and the transplant can take place.

Her lung disease affects women primarily and she said she was diagnosed about 12 years ago after one of her lungs collapsed. The genetic disorder associated with her disease causes benign body tumors, which in her case has manifested itself in the form of cysts in her lungs.

So far drug treatments have been the primary method for addressing the situation according to Seefeldt, who said she is currently on oxygen.

Seefeldt is also a stand-up comedian who does improvisational comedy at local theaters.