Help Seanna eat again

MEET SEANNA 💜🌻

Seanna is 15.

She should be worrying about school, friends, boys and her future. Instead, she knows ICU, feeding tubes, central lines, blood cultures, anaesthetics and surgeries far too well.

Her life changed after COVID in January 2022. She simply never got better.

What followed has been four years of trying to understand a body that seemed to unravel one piece at a time.

First came hEDS, POTS and MCAS. Then an extraordinary collection of rare abdominal vascular compression syndromes: SMA Syndrome, Nutcracker Syndrome, May-Thurner Syndrome, Pelvic Congestion Syndrome and finally neurogenic Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome.

One by one, Seanna fought them.

She endured two failed SMAS surgeries before we found the right surgeon and operation. She lost her left kidney to Nutcracker Syndrome, had a stent placed for May-Thurner and treatment for Pelvic Congestion Syndrome.

Then came nMALS.

Our original BackaBuddy campaign had one enormous goal: get Seanna to the United States for the specialised surgery she desperat...