Quebec mother raises funds to afford life-saving surgery
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Celyn Harding-Jones is organizing an online auction, hoping to raise the $200,000 she needs to cover the costs of surgery with the world's leading expert in the United States.
A Montreal mother of two is raising funds to pay for a life-saving surgery that isn’t available in Quebec to remove an extremely rare brain tumour, after the province’s insurance board (RAMQ) has denied her coverage.
Celyn Harding-Jones is organizing an online auction, hoping to raise the $200,000 she needs to cover the costs of surgery with the world’s leading expert in the United States.
“I’m fighting for my life, so I have no option,” Harding-Jones said.
Harding-Jones suffers from an extremely rare brain tumour called a colloid cyst.
As a result, she said she suffers from extreme fatigue and pain, she suddenly loses the use of her limbs and even consciousness, ending up several times in the emergency room.
Quebec neurosurgeons that she’s consulted have admitted to not having the expertise to remove her tumour safely. They can only intervene when the tumour bursts — something that could lead to her death.
Harding-Jones said that being a mother of two young children, she can’t take that risk and can no longer wait.
“My physical condition has been deteriorating,” Harding-Jones said.
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