A Wish for Emily

Meet Emily: As you can see from this photo, for many years Emily has shared her love of crafting with me!

When just 2 years old, Emily suffered a medical emergency resulting in the loss of all her intestines and she receives all her nutrition and hydration needs intravenously through a central line. Unfortunately, the human body isn’t designed to ‘eat’ this way long term and she now has significant complications such as irreversible liver damage and osteoporosis. Quite a few years ago, Emily was so unwell it wasn’t thought she would live past her 9th birthday:

A Wish for Emily was born during these critical times when it was believed that the whole family would have to relocate to Melbourne for Emily to receive a multi organ transplant.

Fast forward to 2024, and medical intervention from the hospital teams has seen Emily reach and celebrate her 15th birthday!

This constant medical intervention will always be necessary and Emily continues to face ongoing challenging procedures:

At the moment (as of September 2024), while updates will be ongoing through A Wish for Emily, fundraising to help cover some of the costs associated with supporting Emily to access the medical support she needs now can be made through Support for Emily Collett.

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