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Carly needs our care!

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Hi, we are a pair of friends who want to help Carly. She has always been a caring individual who supports her friends, colleagues, surgeons & patients as she is a fantastic and super competent operating theatre nurse. She is also a lovely mum of gorgeous Emily and Tom. Carly usually has everyone else’s back and she does not deserve what has happened in the past 12 months… ‘her back, let her down!’
She suddenly lost sensation in her right leg up to her waist and was told it was possibly just viral so for 2 months ending November 2016 Carly kept pushing herself, kept working, often struggling to stay upright but believing all would get better. Finally she got a second opinion and test results. She was told she has a T9/10 spinal cord injury with partial paraplegia and a T9 spinal cord lesion, no known cause and no known future cure and an unknown future journey. Carly has had to spend months in hospital prior to and after her spinal operation in February 2017 and has to regularly return there for physio and medical analysis and support. Hospital stays may be 40% of the year if her home cannot support her physically. This separates her from her lovely young children and husband as her family is on the Gold Coast and the specialist hospital is in Brisbane 100km from home..
Carly’s friends so want to help her and we have discovered several ways that we can assist …but all require finance! Carly & her husband have had to use the precious $$$’s that they had saved as a deposit to buy their first home on medical bills. Carly can now no longer work as the amazing operating theatre nurse she was (and still is!).
The items that can benefit Carly are
• A Bioness leg/neuro stimulator has been shown to help her walk better and maintain her muscle tone and reduce the hospital physio visits. This way she can assist to maintain her strength in her home environment. However, they cost around $10,000.00
• Carly was determined to keep moving on crutches but reality has arrived and she now accepts she needs a wheelchair to keep up with her children ….she does not want to slow them down. It also allows her to do her shopping and spend time out of home without getting exhausted and risking a fall. Good wheel chairs and scoots are also all close to $15,000.00
• Sadly Carly also has to move home as her rental property was put on the market. We want to assist her with packing, moving and finding a new ‘safe’ home.

All donations both great and small will help with the financial burden of Carly’s medical expenses during a tragic time for her and her family. All donations will be used to keep Carly smiling and physically supported. We have all the donations transferred to a debit account set up for Carly. We are blown away by how Carly stays positive and works so hard to continue to support those around her. Carly still wants to work in nursing and possibly use her current traumatic medical experience to assist others who are affected by their health.
She definitely does not want to ask for help but we want to ask for donations so we can HELP Carly...!

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” -Winston S. Churchill

Please give so Carly can make a living and keep that sparkle in her ‘eye’….
We hope karma will give you a great life after giving!

Namaste…Thank you ….Ingrid Smits (Brisbane) and Donna (GC) friends and colleagues of Carly...

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Ingrid Smits
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Balmoral QLD

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