Brain on Fire 🤕😪 Rare condition : Auto immune Encephalitis. Please help my whanau in this difficult time 💜💜💜

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Hawke's Bay

Hi all,

We are wanting to help our friend out whos daughter has suddenly fallen ill, the family have had to watch her have seizures day after day in hospital for about the last fortnight. Cherish suffers a Rare condition called autoimmune encephalitis where the immune system attacks her brain but it's now affecting her other organs, our fairy's condition has gotten worse and she has now gone into a Semicoma and the family are now preparing to be transferred to Starship children's hospital . Our friend Christine is a solo mum of 4 and This is going to mean they are going to being separated for what could be weeks to months leaving her other children at home in Napier (school aged). We just want to be able to help so money wont need to be another thing to worry about during these tough times. This is the most we can do for our friend as we live in Christchurch and Australia and we know she wouldn't be the type to reach out. So we have taken it upon ourselves and whanau to take that first leep for help ❤️

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We are close family friends from Wainuiomata

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Food, Travel for other siblings to get there to visit, Accommodation for siblings stay, Rent for house back home

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TIMELY CONDITION   20 November 2020

Posted by: Christine Hawkins

With Cherish's slow progression Mum is now having to decide what to do with her other Children as they are missing Mum and being so far apart it's becoming hard for Mum to figure how to balance between being with their baby sister daily and thinking of going home to comfort her baby boys who are 12 and 4 now and again. Mums also now struggling to pay for extra bills that she would normally be able to pay if working. Cherish has a long way to go as with her condition, it is a timely one and with infections continously arising and her heart rate dropping, with 1 drop in her heart rate where compressions were needed and 3 more where she managed to get her heart rate up when her Dystonia hits full blown mode or her suctions set her off, it holds her underlying treatments back. She is still on a breathing tube and they are wanting to try for exacerbating. She has previously had 3 failed exacerbations due to her Dystonia and heart rate dropping. We want to help Mum get ahead of her Bills so that she can be comfortable for at least the next couple of Months as we all know Xmas is the hardest and after, and have that extra money to get her Sons up when and as much as possible. Christine has requested that the page stop as that is her as a person but we want to help her get as much help as possible as she would for us, so because she has requested, we will make this the last Month and a half to raise as much for her and her children.

Tayla Jade

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