Fight for Sandi to get her life back!

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Help Sandi get her life back! A mum of two, needing frequent pain management treatments in Australia to live a "normal" life.

Wellington

Kia Ora friends, whanau and strangers.

Todays update Sunday 13th April is not what we were expecting to post.

Our goal post has changed with urgency.

As Sandi enters her 3rd week at Wellington Hospital her ileostomy bag has failed and needs to be removed and a Chait tube to be inserted to start eating again. It has literally been months since she has had any proper sustenance. She is now dangerously underweight. We received the news on Friday that she has a large benign brain tumour.

She started chemo yesterday in the hope to reduce it in size. She will have another blood test in 4 weeks to check the prolactin levels, if it is still high she will have another MRI to check the size and plan surgery to remove it. We need to have the Chait tube done urgently in order for Sandi to eat again to gain weight for what could be upcoming complicated brain surgery. We hope to get Sandi the Ketamine treatment immediately after the Chait tube surgery to help with the CRPS that is currently crippling her. She is back to using a wheelchair and mobility aids.

Wellington Hospital cannot guarantee she can have the bowel surgery urgently due to an already overloaded urgent waiting list and have advised us to look at going private. We cannot wait for ACC to fight us on this once again. While this is all happening two children are desperate to have their mum home.

Link is in the comments if you would like to donate, anything and everything is appreciated ❤

Jasmine Yoi's involvement (page creator)

I'm Sandis friend, and have been through this medical journey from the start. Seeing her go through this has been extremely hard. All she wants is to live a life pain-free with her family, and we feel this is the best/only option for pain management.

Use of funds

Covering the costs for Sandi to return to Pain Specialists Australia until our voices are heard here in NZ with the hope either ACC will help fund or we can manage to access the treatment here. The money will be used for flights, accommodation, and the ketamine treatment.

Latest update

SANDI NEEDS SURGERY ASAP 25 April 2025

Kia Ora friends, whanau, followers and strangers. Today’s update Friday 25th April.

Our goal post has changed again.

Sandi needs surgery ASAP.

We have found a private hospital willing to do Sandi-Leigh’s chait tube surgery.

Southern Cross hospital in Wellington have quoted the surgery at $25000-28000 approximately. We are currently waiting for an appointment date. Sandi-Leigh doesn’t have health insurance and will never meet the criteria to have it.

Unfortunately the public system is already stretched and under the pump with huge wait lists and unless it was deemed an emergency, they won’t be able to fast track her.

Sandi is still only drinking ensure, 2-3 times per day is all she can manage and water. The lack of adequate nutrition is detrimental to her current health. She has lost a staggering amount of weight since she’s been unable to eat and her energy levels are non existent and mobility leaves her extremely exhausted and drained.

Once Sandi has had the surgery, we are hoping she can get the ketamine infusions as soon as she’s well enough to fly.

We are now looking at trying to raise/find $40,000-$45,000 for both surgery and ketamine infusion.

ACC have yet to give us definitive answers. They are failing her. They are taking their time even though they know there’s urgency with this surgery and treatment. Their communication and commitment to Sandi has been extremely poor. We can not wait much longer. We need to act now.

Any help is appreciated.

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