Kirsty Brown (Keane) recovery from major surgery

Hello we are rasing money to help towards the cost to aid Kirsty and her family and support them through this tough time, to help with the cost of travel back and forth to cardiff for her family and 2 young sons to visit her on her lengthy recovery and any nessasery help her family needs during this time where their life is greatly affected.

Kirsty is a young women with 2 children and a husband who adore her, she is a muched loved daughter, sister, auntie and friend, she hasn't had it easy over the last 12 years through multiple health issues and misdiagnosis she has suffered on in cronic pain unable to live any kind of life, but she is finally able to have the surgery she requires to be able to live a better life and hopefully in a lot less pain that what she is now.

She will be able to be the mum, wife, auntie, daughter, friend and sister that she has longed to be for so long without the consent pain and suffering.

We appreciate you taking the time to support Kirsty and her family on this horrendous journey.

Kirsty's story in her own words- Tomorrow I will be admitted to Cardiff hospital to have an extremely high risk surgery.

A surgery I have been waiting for for over 12 years and along the way, whilst waiting for consultants to get over their fear of touching me, I have been diagnosed with many other illnesses which make this op much more high risk. In particular, my brain aneurysm.

I have had it drummed into me how there is a high chance I won't make it through this op and if I do, I could well have a stroke or ruptured aneurysm first. But we know that this is my only option left to improve my quality of life

People often only see me when I'm doing my performance out and about...I look like a perfectly healthy young woman when in actual fact I'm in absolute agony from head to toe, constantly drugged up on nerve drugs and fentanyl. My quality of life has become dire over the past few years. I barely leave the house and when I have, I end up sobbing in agony and then laid up for long periods of time for my body to recovery. My mental health is horrendous. There have been several times I was unbelievably close to ending it all because I couldn't suffer anymore and I also couldn't live with the guilt of knowing what those closest to me were going through because of my health.

I will be having a laparotomy. They will remove my entire large bowel, deal with any adhesions they see, repair my large peristomal hernia and my umbilical hernia, fix a prolapse in my rectum or remove my rectum entirely, they will do a complete removal of any endometriosis they see including stripping it from my nerves, bladder and bowel and then they will then stent my ureters. During this op they will be monitoring my blood pressure very closely using the arteries on the underside of my wrist so they can closely monitor my aneurysm.

Surgery will take at least 8 hrs. Then I will be placed in high dependency for at least 48hrs to be closely monitored as if I make it through the op, I am super high risk for several other things to go wrong in those 48hrs. Then I will be in hospital for a further 2 weeks for pain management.

I can honestly say I'm terrified. Just so thankful I have such supportive family