<div>My name is Shannon Lavell and I am here to ask for your help. Juliana, my daughter, has battled with severe auto immune disease, including ulcerative colitis, and now Crohn’s disease, since 2017. Fistulas have formed that cause severe infiltration of surrounding tissue. The results are severely debilitating when she eats. Her photos don't show what kind of burden this is for her. Since May, 2021, she has had fistulas. She is still on immune suppressant biologic injectable medication and the fistulas are still there. Other surgical efforts to repair the fistulas have not helped. Thank you for your attention to the following information. We a have found a specialized Doctor in India, and we are in contact with many people/patients who have had success with the same condition.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>In November 2020, Juliana was near death and had emergency surgery to remove her entire large intestine and the majority of her rectum. This left her with an ostomy bag (external bag to collect feces) for 6 months. Juliana is highly allergic to the ostomy bag glue. Her external belly was very painfully inflamed for six months.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Juliana was then able to have J-pouch surgery, where her small intestine is looped to create a kind of reservoir to act like a large intestine. This required 2 more surgeries that left her with her small intestine sewn to her rectum.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Since May 2021 she has struggled with fistulas (small leaks of fecal matter that burrow out near the anal canal). These fistulas are very painful and have left her with a lack of bowel control, pain and swelling when she eats or sits or stands for any length of time.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>If she wants to work, do yoga, socialize, or hike she must not eat that day, and must take anti-diarrhea medication.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>A variety of medications have failed to help the fistula problem, including: immune suppressant biologics and antibiotics. She has spent thousands on naturopaths and alternative therapies without much success due to the severity of her illness.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Her Doctors and Surgeon in Canada are saying a permanent ostomy bag is her only option now, and this would be a return to a chronic and very painful allergic skin reaction. There are no other options in North America.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Through her research, Juliana discovered Doctor Ashwin Porwal, a colorectal surgeon located in Pune, India at the Healing Hands Clinic. He is an extremely skilled and successful surgeon who has developed a technique to heal fistulas using a DLPL laser. He is published in many medical journals and has a world class clinic where he has a 99% success rate with over 3000 fistula patients.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><a href="https://www.healinghandsclinic.co.in/dr-ashwin-porwal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.healinghandsclinic.co.in/dr-ashwin-porwal/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.healinghandsclinic.co.in/dr-ashwin-porwal/</a></a>
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We have talked to several people from the US, Australia, Europe and Canada who have travelled to India to receive treatment successfully with Dr.Porwal. The technique is not yet available in Canada, or anywhere else in the world, yet.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>After almost 3 years of struggling with fistulas, Juliana has reached her breaking point where she is needing help before they get worse and potentially create abscessing, eroding of muscle tissue, or sepsis, as described by other people in this situation. Juliana is hopeful for timely intervention with Dr.Porwal to heal the fistulas. Juliana would not only lose about five more feet of her small intestine with an ostomy bag, attached externally by adhesive to her stomach, but she would live with red, burning reactions to the adhesive required for the bag.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We need coverage for Juliana’s medical expenses plus the cost of travel and a minimum 10 week stay for post surgery healing and follow up. She will need a caregiver to travel with her for post operation assistance.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Juliana is optimistic that Dr.Porwal can save her from having an ostomy bag and improve her quality of life so she can return fully to her life as an active Mother, Yoga Teacher and outdoor adventure enthusiast.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Before she became sick with Ulcerative Colitis/Crohn’s, she led a healthy and active lifestyle. We are praying for a miracle to get her back to living her best life with her family. We hope to get her to Dr. Porwal in Pune, India for his specialized intervention. This is by far her best option. 
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Thanks so much for your attention.
</div>

TINA GUILLOU

Howard Moss

patti milligan PhD RD CNS

Gillianne Richards

Jodie Schick

Anonymous

Tracy Lambeth Scott

terry mobile

Monica Widoff Allen

Catherine Fero

GURDEV ATWAL

Larhken B Carroll

Johanna R Ens

Graham Benson

Melvyn Coutinho

Patti & Curt Dorin

Urgent Need for Fistula Surgery

platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

user language is English and fund country: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

paymentProcessor

3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

ipAddress

Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

paymentProcessorAccountId

fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

Eligible for Profile Share Badge

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

Supporter Comments Eligible Funds

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

Users Receiving Braze KYC Validation Failed

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

email

appVersion

shouldBucketIntoExperiment

isEligibleForProfileBadge

partnerId

donationCadence

isActiveFundraiser

isPartner

isMobile

npoProfileOptIn

fundIsLinkedWithMeta

hasSessionDonation

categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

fundHasInstagramDeepLink

Native 11.3.0 and above

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

Urgent Need for Fistula Surgery

Still $5,025 to go. Help us build momentum.