Her mother says watching her struggle is 'soul detroying'
She said: “She’s young and she’s just one of the nicest kids. If I’m not very well, she still tries to help me even when I say no. We are quite close because she’s 22 but hasn’t fled the nest and still needs my support. It’s full on looking after her, because she has a lot of drugs and can’t take anything orally, I have to crush them for her. It’s tough because she just wants to be normal.”
The family are now raising £40,000 for a gastric pacemaker, which will 'drastically improve' Emma’s life and let her live a normal life. The treatment will allow her allow her to eat as normal - without her throwing up straight after. Helen said:"When Emma found out the cost of the treatment, she just burst into tears. I told her we would do whatever it takes, even if that means remortgaging the house or selling our pensions. But Emma disagreed and said it wasn't right, because she said that we need to live and our pensions are what we have worked for. Then she asked why an alcoholic can have a liver transplant and somebody that smokes can have a heart transplant.
Helen is doing everything she can to raise money for the treatment - including breeding a litter of puppies.She said:"We bred one of our dogs in COVID, but you can't breed them until they've had two seasons after because it's classed as puppy farming and that's not fair. She was able to be bred this year, so we decided to try again to see if we could raise some money and we managed to sell six.
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