Please help our daughter to eat and drink again and live a normal life

Mel has been diagnosed with May-Thurner syndrome, Nutcracker syndrome plus several other compressions, which will be diagnosed further after her scan in lieptzig (due to poor quality of NZ MRI he couldn’t confirm but could see more worrying ones)

Mel is a 27 year old female. She used to be a gym instructor and a retail manager.

This condition is real. It has completely changed her life, she was cheeky, bubbly and full of life. Now she is a shadow of herself.

After a year of being unwell and eating one meal a day (mushy weetbix) and now a month of not being able to eat or drink at all due to severe pain, things are getting urgent as she has lost so much weight, she suffers blackouts and numerous other health problems

Compression syndrome is causing so much heartache for so many young women. Please help us to save her life

Mel wants to recover so she can help more people that are going through this.

After a long time of being pushed from department to department at the hospital, several scans and numerous tests, their only suggestion was anorexia.

She went to a specialist in Germany who has found several compressions. NZ don’t treat or recognise this condition.

We don’t want her to die - so we are taking her to Germany. But it’s really expensive, you can’t put a price on your daughter’s life though.

We would be so grateful if you could help us.

If the amount donated does not meet the amount, it will all go towards the costs.

Our approximate fees expected are in excess of $120,000