Help Vicky find peace from pain

My name is Natasha. I was born and raised in Auckland and am a mental health nurse. I met the woman of my dreams, Vicky, in 2013. Our home is our little sanctuary and we poured our heart and souls into making it our little piece of paradise so we could get married in the backyard Nov 2015.

A car accident in Feb 2016 left Vicky unable to work with a long term disability, chronic pain and fatigue from CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) that predominantly affects her left hand. In a nut shell her nervous system is now super oversensitive and perceives just about everything (yup hand holding, gripping, carrying, hot weather, cold weather, seeing someone else in pain) as an intensely painful threat. We are now trying to rebuild and adapt our lives.

We are at the point where medical treatment has done/ is doing all that it can. We currently spend time and money travelling to hot pools to give her temporary relief and enable her to do physio for her hand/arm. We passed the first anniversary of the accident in Feb and are now accepting that CRPS will be a long term presence in our lives. I am fundraising for a spa pool so Vicky has access to the warm water at home when ever or however long she needs to help her day to day management of CRPS and give her a little peace from the pain.