Hello world of SG!
Very important post here as this affects one of our very own hopefuls!
The lovely hopeful and photographer that is @ladyfirefox will be having one of her legs amputated on the 22nd March and currently has a Gofundme set up to help with life post amputation so that she could find a suitable wheelchair or go towards a prosthetic.
She is very well loved in our community by hopefuls, staff and SG's and we all want her to have the best life possible!
In @ladyfirefox words:
On the week of March 22nd l will be undergoing a below the knee amputation. It's a long and complicated story, but I will try and keep it short for now and update with more detail later on.
I have lived with chronic pain for my entire life. I was born with a rare bone disease called fibrous dysplasia in my left fibula. There is no cure and throughout my life the pain has got worse and worse, now I use a walking aid.
8 years ago I found a lump on of the outside my lower left leg, one lump became two and soon after pain began. I was referred to hospital to remove the ’benign’ tumours, but they returned. After a biopsy I was diagnosed with a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma called aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumours). There is no cure.
Since then I have had another surgery which included a fibulectomy (removal of the fibula bone) and chemotherapy 3 times.
Needless to say after many years of chronic pain and chemo treatments I decided last Year I wanted to have my leg amputated. I have been waiting for a date for 5 months and the time has come.
There are expenses which come with living life as an amputee. To start with I am raising money for simple things to help me day to day. I want to buy a robust wheelchair suitable for a young and active person like me. I enjoy going to music festivals so an NHS issued wheelchair just won’t be suitable for me. A good quality, lightweight folding wheelchair can cost in excess of £1,500. I also want to buy an iwalk which is a device which you kneel on and strap into and will allow me to easily move around the house without putting a prosthetic on.
I have set my goal at £3,000, but If fund raising goes really well I could use it to purchase a more advanced prosthetic leg though these can cost up to £12,000.
Please donate what you can, even if every one of my Instagram followers donated £1 I would have enough to buy myself a fancy leg
Much love L. x
LINK TO DONATE TO LADYFIREFOX'S GOFUNDME
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