Help Mel live a normal Life again!!!

I am a 20 year old who has decided to take on the challenge of the punch for purpose 2025 charity fight run by Otepoti Boxing Club. I am currently in a 10 week training camp to prepare for the fight on May the 3rd. I am doing this to push myself physically and mentally but to raise money for my cousin Mel who is currently fighting her own fight to get her normal life back!!!

My Cousin Mel King, (28) went to Germany for life saving surgery in September last year. Unfortunately as a result of the underlying condition Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome she has developed new compressions including May Thurner and neurogenic MALS and other underlying problems.

This does not mean the Germany surgery was unsuccessful. As a result she needs to get overseas for surgery. In September she will be going to Spain to get these new compressions fixed.

She is down to just 39kg, can’t eat very much at all and has no energy to do anything. She is suffering from debilitating symptoms and severe malnutrition.

A former fitness instructor at the gym I now manage, she is now just a shadow of her former self. Unable to work and live a normal life. It is very expensive to get her the help she needs but Gerard and Cheryl want their daughter back. Please help get her there. Any donation would be a massive help!

See ODT article-https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/health/i-can%E2%80%99t-eat-mystery-illness-ruins-dunedin-womans-life