Help our girl be pain free!
Our 15 year old needs hip replacement to be pain free...... please help
Cambridge, Waikato
My daughter was diagnosed with Idiopathic Chondrolysis at 13 after years of knee pain becoming worse. After 4 admissions to hospital in chronic pain over 2 years (with 3 of this in the last 14 months), they are now struggling to get her pain under control without the use of opiates! She is only 15, has had to give up her sports, she was a regional tennis player and A grade netball player and sports were her life.
Being a teenager and not being able to join in or socialise like her friends has hit her so hard and now with constant pain she has no quality of life.
Surgeons told her she would need to manage her pain for another 25 years!!! My daughter wants her hip replaced now to be pain free and give her some quality of life back.
The waiting list is excessive as there is also a backlog due to covid.
Please help us go private. We have medical insurance but need to pay the $500 excess and provide her with ongoing support and aftercare, hydrotherapy and medical appointments @ additional cost.
Sue Dela Rue's involvement (page creator)
Desperate mum
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Insurance excess for surgery and ongoing hydrotherapy and medical appointments.
Latest update
5.2 weeks Post Op and doing so well! 9 July 2022
We just had to thank you all again for helping get Gabi where she is today, PAIN FREE!!!!! (and a lot more opportunities now). Gabi is on week 5.2 post op and is going leaps and bounds (not literally ;) ). The other hip is going the same way, however, it is no where near the level of the one she has just had replaced (lets pray its years away!)
We picked up her bone last week from the hospital (yes she was curious and wanted it back!) She has it on her bedside cabinet and has named it Bartholomew!
Gabi has now ditched the crutches, has joined the local gym and is doing a trial shift back at work to see how she goes, we are sure she will be fine, although it we know she will be tired! She is now focussed on which career path she would like and is veering towards medical (possibly surgery!)
She is amazing and determined and we are so proud of her!!!!
She is hoping that getting back to work will give her the opportunity to do all those things teenagers love to do, pay for her gym membership and save for her first car as she will be able to go for her restricted licence in a few months time (time flies!).
Anyway - you were all a big part of her journey and we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts xx We all couldn't have got through his without your huge support.
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Thank you Rose xx
Thankyou so much! Gabi would like to visit you and misses Flossy! xx
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