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Charitable Plea - Can you help a 13 year old girl keep walking?

Charitable Plea -

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Alyssa is my niece, she is 13 years old, her nickname is Alycat, and she has a severe spinal deformation, which left untreated would result in her loosing her mobility. The condition is called Scoliosis and Alyssa has a 59 degree spinal curve which is only worsening as she grows, her shoulders, shoulder blades and hips are already being pushed significantly out of position, and she is wearing a rigid fibre-glass body brace 22 hours per day to hold her torso in the right position, which is painful.

In America scoliosis treatment is very advanced, and they offer a pioneering operation named Vertebratal Body Tethering (VBT) which essentially means screwing a cleat into each vertebrate, straightening the spine, and tightening a metal cable along the cleats to hold it straight, just like putting a brace on a teenagers teeth! This operation isn't available in the UK, on the NHS, or through any medical insurance available in the UK.

The cost of the operation is up to £140,000. My Sister and Brother in Law have already re-mortgaged their house in order to raise funds, but they just don't have anything like that kind of equity. So the point of this post is to fundraise, and to ask the members of this forum for any help they can give, I know how great bikers are at pulling together when someone is in need.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this and for any support you can give.

1. Simply make a personal donation using the Golden Giving, all donations will be processed through umbrella charity Tree of Hope, a children’s charity who exist to help in personal fundraising cases such as these, where setting up a separate charity wouldn't be feasible.

http://www.goldengiving.com/wall/project-alycat

2. Please share this link on your facebook pages and help raise awareness.

https://www.facebook.com/projectalycat

3. Are you planning a marathon, a triathlon, a tough mudder, a cycle race, and need a charity to support?

4. Are you a member of a club or organisation that could help?

5. I don't have a number five! Do you? We need fundraising ideas, and people to get involved, can you think of anything that would raise money for Alyssa's cause?

Thank you everyone for your support!