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Urgent Help Needed, Please Help Addison Bennett

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Addison's story;

In December 2018 at age 10 Addison was Diagnosed with severe Idiopathic Scoliosis. The Doctors at Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas wanted to schedule Surgery right away to fuse her spine and place rods in her back. This invasive and permanently debilitating surgery was not an option to us.
After lots of research and second and third opinions we discovered Scoliosis Care Center in Campbell California.
scoliosiscarecenters.com
After talking with the Doctors at Scoliosis Care Centers we decided this would be the path that we would take to try and avoid the invasive surgery the Doctors at Scottish Rite were insisting was needed to help our daughter.
Thanks to a lot of generous people and hard work on our part we were able to get Addison out to California to begin treatment. Addison was fit with a groundbreaking Brace called the 'silicone Valley Brace'. They also built a custom traction chair that places her spine in the correct position when she is strapped into the chair. Addison is required to wear the Brace 12 hours a day and is placed into her custom Traction Chair twice daily. 
When the Doctors at Scottish Rite Hospital first diagnosed Addison her spine had a 64 degree curvature. When Addison began treatment at Scoliosis Care Center in March of 2019 her curvature had increased to 73 degrees. To put this in perspective anything over a 40 degree curvature requires surgery according to the Medical Doctors at Scottish Rite.
Addison went home in March with her Brace and her Traction Chair and began the fight of correcting the curvature in her spine. This has been a painful process for her.
Addison went back to California in July to see how she was progressing and to have adjustments made to her Brace and Traction Chair.
We are pleased to announce that the curve in her spine was reduced to 58 degrees!! As you can imagine we are ecstatic over this and are very thankful we chose this path to recovery!
This journey has not been easy on any of us especially Addison. Health insurance does not cover any of the costs involved in this process. The costs are on us alone to bear and without help from others unfortunately would be impossible.
Addison is now 11 years old and will have to continue this treatment and multiple trips a year out to California until she stops growing. Each time Addison makes a trip to California the cost is about $8k. She will have to have another Brace made next year and that is very expensive as well.
We are asking for any help we can get during this Journey.
Please help Addison fight the fight of her life, she is a very special and wonderfully talented little girl and is very appreciative of those that have given her assistance.
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  • Raymond Blackburn
    • $50 
    • 12 d
  • Karl Sutter
    • $75 
    • 2 mos
  • Jan Hermstad
    • $50 
    • 7 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $150 
    • 7 mos
  • Mike & Wendy Floyd
    • $200 
    • 9 mos
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Chris Bennett
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Rowlett, TX

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