Tove needs help

Hi there,

I'm creating this fundraising page for my forster mother Tove.

Tove frequently goes to the ends of the earth for the people she cares about She needs to have surgery every 2 months due to sexual assault and trauma, each surgery she has seems so reveal something new that needs to be repaired.

The assault exacerbated some underlying conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS

Doctors and specialists kept dismissing her as she has an extensive medical history (her first surgery was around 6 years old) being called a "too complex case", has CMT; A degenerative condition causing muscle wastage, tendon atrophy and nerve death, starting in hands and feet, creeping up the limbs and her alternative appearance, eg tattoos, piercings and bright dyed hair.

She was bounced around different apartments in the healthcare system before, luckily with determination and not wanting to quit she's found a really good GP and surgeon who try so hard to ease her pain, but sadly due to being medically neglected, her condition as irreversible.

The money raised through this page will be going towards transport to and from hospital/ GP appointments and specialty dietary foods.

Winz isn't doing enough for her.

She's a single mother, chronically ill and unable to work but yet she advocates for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, young trans and queer people and really just anyone who needs help.

If you call and ask her for help she'd move hell or high water to help get the care you need.

Here is a link to her Vice article that shows some of her work despite massive mental and physical trauma.

A trigger warning though, this mentions being sexually, physically, emotionally and mentally abused.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjykm4/morgan-marquis-boire-how-a-sexual-predator-thrived-in-new-zealand

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope you can help by either donating or spreading this link around