Recovery for Jenny’s beautiful mind

On 22nd March 2022, Jenny experienced a massive brain haemorrhage. Jenny quickly became unresponsive and the decision was made to make an immediate air transfer to Wellington for emergency intensive care

Imaging of Jenny’s brain revealed an arteriovenous malformation. This is an abnormally configured network of arteries and veins - a rare condition that presents itself usually in the way it did for Jenny, on rupturing spontaneously, and with often severe consequence. After an agonising week spent stabilising Jenny while specialist teams united to plan her life-saving surgery, Jenny underwent 30 painstaking hours of time in theatre hoping to remove this life-threatening area of blood vessels precariously entwined throughout the brain

Jenny, Dan, and their children Wilder (5) and Solveig (3), are Americans who moved to the Wairarapa two years ago so that Jenny could study for a PhD at Te Herenga Wake Victory University of Wellington. Strict covid restrictions meant the family was left with the gruelling role of navigating their children through the painfully fragile situation alone, in limbo between Wellington hospital and home

We write in hope of support to raise funds to offer this wonderful family the financial cushion in which to concentrate on the most important things in life

Your help will go towards the practical costs of childcare, bills, rents etc. Let’s pull together to give what we can to alleviate, to some degree, the magnitude of this crisis with an uncertain future