Making Moments for Mum

Our family has recently been dealt a bad card in life.

Our wonderful, loving Mother has just been diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, or MSA. It's a progressive neurological disorder that is similar to Parkinson's disease in many ways, and it is terminal. It is caused by degeneration of nerve cells in several (or multiple) areas of the brain which can result in problems with movement, balance and automatic functions. With a prognosis of 10-12 years, the neurologists believe Mum has already had MSA for at least 8 years, so she only has about 2-4 years left with us, and she will only continue to get worse.

Mum's quality of life is so important to us and our family. She has a very short time left on this world, and we want to give her the best possible time we can, so she can enjoy what little quality time she has left without the worries of money.

We want to help her pay for her wedding to her loving, supportive girlfriend Coral in January 2015. We want to help pay for her medical expenses and we want to help pay for her funeral.

To do this we need the help of our fellow kiwis.

Any little bit helps, we know times are tough for everyone in this world at the moment but if you could spare anything to help our Mum through her Journey we would be forever grateful.

Much Love, The Street Sisters. xx