Loving Mother Zoey, asks for public assistance to help change her suffering daughter Yasmin’s life with all the support you can give,..thank you!

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Zoe Dennet, a loving mum, has set up a page to help raise much needed funds for her little angel, daughter Yasmin (12) to have a new spinal surgery method in Germany (VBT) that will help to treat her progressing scoliosis condition.
 
This new surgery is unavailable in the UK.
 
Early in 2016 Zoe noticed that her daughter’s back was not straight, and was referred to the Sheffield children’s hospital where, Yasmin was diagnosed with a 37 degree cobb angle curve in her spine – Idiopathic scoliosis, which progresses rapidly for children during growth spurts. Yasmin was given a spinecor brace to wear 24 hours a day.
Later on in July 2017, an x ray showed that Yasmin’s curve had progressed to 50 degrees, even though she wore a brace. They were advised to expect that it would progress rapidly as she has further growth spurts . She has a very visible “rib hump” that measures 18 on a scolimeter (this is very high). She is in a lot of pain and is now very conscious about how she looks and is very anxious about what will happen to her as she continues to grow. Since finding out she has scoliosis, Yasmin has not been the happy go lucky girl she has been. Zoe is also very worried about her daughter’s mental state of mind.
 
In UK Yasmin can only get spinal fusion but this is not favourable when a child is still growing as it stops the growth. If they wait until she stops growing to have surgery, the curve will be very big and will impact her lungs and heart.
 
Zoe’s only hope is that yasmin has VBT surgery as soon as possible. She recently took Yasmin to meet with a VBT surgeon in Germany who advised that Yasmin should have VBT surgery as soon as possible as VBT is only effective when a child is growing and there is little time left to spare.
The family were also advised to treat the scoliosis as soon as possible as it is more complicated to treat large curves and rib humps. The VBT surgeon in Germany can do the surgery in January. Zoe will need to pay for the surgery in December but this is currently a problem for her.
 
With VBT, Yasmin’s scoliosis would be treated via keyhole surgery to install a small cord to “tether” the vertebrae where the curve is. The surgeons will reduce the curve significantly during the surgery and the tethers will continue to reduce the curve while she grows. Most importantly, this surgery would prevent the scoliosis from progressing. As VBT is a keyhole surgery, the recovery time is short and she would only miss school for 2-3 weeks.
 
Yasmin is just 12 years old and it Zoe’s heart to hear that she just wants her spine to be normal. As a mother she doesn’t want to see her daughter suffer anymore which is why she is pleading for assistance to raise the money to enable her daughter to have the VBT surgery asap before her remaining growth time runs out. Zoe is a single working parent with a small family and is really struggling to raise all the money after recently undergoing surgery herself last year for cancer.
 
The cost of the VBT in surgery is 40k and her goal is to raise £40k via the gofundme page. All assistance will be really appreciated if you can donate and help a mother achieve her goal of giving her daughter a better life.
 
Zoe has pasted a link to an article about VBT (also called AVBT) in case you want to learn more about this new surgery that is very effective for treating adolescents that are suffering with idopathic scoliosis.
 
http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/Services/A-Z/ScottishNationalSpineDeformityService/Spine%20Conditions%20and%20Operations/Pages/Anterior-Vertebral-Body-Tethering-(AVBT).aspx
 
Zoe and Yasmin are eternally grateful and would like to thank everyone in advance for all the help that they can give. Zoe Dennet

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