A Wish for Emily

Meet Emily: we love to craft together!

Emily has a passion for life, but when just 2 years old she suffered a medical emergency resulting in the loss of all her intestines. She receives all her nutrition and hydration needs intravenously through a central line, but the human body isn’t designed to “eat” this way long term; she now has significant complications such as irreversible liver damage and osteoporosis. A few  years ago, Emily was very unwell:

It was thought she wouldn’t live past her 9th birthday, but medical intervention from the hospital teams has seen her reach her 13th birthday and start High School in 2022 – she was very excited about that!! 

Emily’s one hope is to receive a multi organ transplant which is available only in Melbourne, and would mean relocating there from Sydney for 1 to 2 years. When the time does come, Emily’s wish is for her family to be with her, but to do this both her parents would need to become full-time carers to  support her, and her siblings, during this period living interstate. And so A Wish for Emily was born! 

The goal is to raise funds to enable Emily’s family to relocate to Melbourne and support her during this traumatic time. EiderCraft has an Etsy shop and all proceeds from the sales through Etsy, or purchased from me in person, go to A Wish for Emily. So far, around $10,440 (end of June 2022) has been donated by EiderCraft – that’s a lot of cards!!

A Wish for Emily has a facebook page if you’d like to follow her journey and donations are able to be made through gofundme.com/awishforemily.

Thanks so much for reading and taking an interest in Emily!! Megan xo