Melanie

About Melanie

PLEASE DONATE NOW to #MelaniesMissionToLive - a charitable trust fund created to fund specialised medical transport and world specialist, life-saving spinal and brain surgery for Mel (a 32yr old Newcastle University biology graduate from Cramlington, Northumberland) before its too late!! Due to Mel's complex underlying conditions (EDS and CCI) her only option for revision surgery to fix her broken fusion is to seek help abroad! WE NEED YOUR HELP
Today’s update So it’s been 4 days since I woke up from my medically induced coma….. The changed the broken cobalt alloy rod, and added a new one on that side also, so there’s three cervical rods on the left and the two already In situ on the right. I’m […]

4 days since waking

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So, tomorrow’s the big day… where I’m getting the remainder of my spine fused to mean I have a full spinal fusion from skull to pelvis. The nerves are real this time… I think it’s worse this time as I know exactly what to expect! I know the pain will […]

Halo fitted

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Hi. Molly here Mels mam. Mel went to theatre about 1hr ago. She was really nervous. I was told last time she had less than a 50% chance of pulling through and her body is a lot weaker this time. I will post tonight after the op and let you […]

Off to theatre

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