The Taigo Help Fund

Hello and if you spare a few minutes, please read my story and make a donation.

I'm Joanne and I inherited a disease from my father to which I had no idea I had. It started with a mild shake at 16, and I always blamed it on Ventolin medicine as a child. Fast Forward to 2011 and I had neck pain and shoulder pain that paracetamol couldn't shift. I was diagnosed 2015 as having spinal cord pinchage and basically that's that.

So believing this was the cause, I had to accept I would need a collar and an spinal cord operation to fix the vertebrae. Imagine in 2024 asking the Dr if my shaky hands and left leg were anything... Until a neurologist could do tests, I was to assume it was either:

Parkinson's.

Essential Tremor.

Brain tumor.

This was early August 2022 and I lived with this worry until June 2023. I was diagnosed with Essential Tremor, and that was the reason for the neck and shoulder pains, the falling over, the messing myself, the awkward vision, and leg tremors. I also found out I couldn't walk toe to toe as a part of my brain had ceased working. The symptoms increased and I started with tricep pains that limit me doing things. The pain is atrocious, and I need a car that fits me. I'm also being tested now for an Autoimmune disease. I'm so downhearted that at 53, this what I'm left to. Begging... Anyway, about the the VW, seating wise it is the best of all Motability cars for me, but they won't give me the £1000 deposit. As June approaches I don't know what to do and just feel like crying and rocking in a corner. It's the truth... I exist on benefits, skip meals to save money and as of now, don't go out because the car I have, punishes my triceps. It's the most awful pain and I can't drive what I have. I don't know how I'm going to raise this cash with your help.

I am at a point in life where I'll never get better and the car is my freedom. I have no one to turn to so I'm here begging for help. The prognosis of my illness is increased shaking, onset Parkinson's and Dementia. Please help me live a little before it's too late! Please.

Love Joanne.