Help 14 year old Sophie with her fight for her mobility!

One of my best friends Sophie has been battling with her health since she was in year 7 when she was first diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome.

She has severe tics, where she will punch walls during long and exhausting tic attacks, where she has broken her knuckles multiple times. Then later that same year she began to have non epileptic seizures, lasting anywhere from 1 to 22 minutes.

From then on her health only declined. She slowly lost her mobility, feeling in her body and is in unbearable pain 24/7. She is now diagnosed with 4 conditions. Tourette’s, FND which has caused her to lose feeling in her lower body, POTS causing fainting, and H-EDS has created the most amount of pain. Causing her to dislocate her bones if she puts to much pressure on them and pain hypersensitivity in her legs. She is slowly loosing her ability to walk.

She hasn’t been to school in over 6 months and in that time she was admitted to the hospital for three weeks for her pain. She’s constantly in and out of the ER for seizures and in the doctors office for various tests, blood works and scans.

Due to the severity of her conditions that are not typically debilitating her aids are not funded, the only aid she has is a borrowed hospital wheelchair. A new wheelchair would give her back her life, allow her back to school and to navigate her own home. She’s a wonderful girl and her disabilities have taken so much from her. This would give her back her freedom and her life.