Alania's road to recovery!

$4,182 donated
Given by 37 generous donors in around 3 months

This page has been set up to help support Alania, her 2 little sisters and her parents to ease the financial stress of everyday life.

Hawke's Bay

On the 13th of February Alania came home from school with a headache and an upset stomach, over the coming days Alania deteriorated becoming extremely lethargic, the doctors put it down to a gastro bug and Alania was sent home from the medical centre. 15th Febuary Alania was vomiting and was still lethargic and was becoming unresponsive. Alanias parents rushed her to the medical centre where they transferred her to ED via ambulance. Alania was admitted and spent 4 days in the childrens ward. On the 4th day they decided to do a MRI scan and sent her to Star Ship where they found that Alania had had 2 strokes in her frontal lobe. Alania has been diagnosed with cerebral vasculistis and cerebral isahemic frontal lobe they also discovered that Alania is missing a major artery that supplys blood to her frontal lobe and her frontal lobe is being starved of oxygen. Alania is required to under go x2 life saving brain surgeries at starship hospital to restore the blood flow back into her frontal lobe to ensure she can live a long and healthy life

Gemma Roberts' involvement (page creator)

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Use of funds

The funds raised will go towards supporting the family with day to day living costs whilst ensuring their other 2 children are taken care of while they take time off to support Alania in Auckland during her recovery. excess funds donated to star ship.

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Payee has been changed  22 September 2020

Posted by: Givealittle

The payee of the page has been changed to Nicole's Dad - John West.

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Latest donations

Emma
Emma on 22 Sep 2020
All the best Lots of love Emma,Dave,Lilly and Maja
$40
Christine
Christine on 01 Sep 2020
Sending love to you all 💜
$50
Jess
Jess on 28 Aug 2020
$50
Hayden
Hayden on 27 Aug 2020
All the best to you guys
$50
Trini
Trini on 27 Aug 2020
Wishing u a speedy recovery x
$50

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Created by Gemma Roberts
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Paying to a verified bank account of John West on behalf of Nicole Dalamere
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This campaign started on 20 Aug 2020 and ended on 20 Nov 2020.