excuse-is-thaat-im-y0ung:
Cristina Di Corte is 22 years old and suffers from a disease so rare you’ve probably never heard of it before. Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE) is an inherited condition that has caused her digestive tract to no longer be able to move food through her body or absorb nutrients from it.
* Because of this she can no longer eat or drink but instead receives all of her nu…trition, fluids and medications via a central line catheter.
* She suffers from excessive weight loss.
* The disease causes her to experience severe gastro-intestinal pain and she is beginning to lose sensation in her lower limbs.
* The disease also causes a toxic build-up of two chemicals in her blood so she occasionally requires blood transfusions to normalize her blood chemistry.
* MNGIE is a progressive disease that moves at different speeds in different patients. Cristina’s doctors have declared her need as urgent due to the speed at which her disease is progressing.
A bone marrow transplant won’t cure her, but can stop MNGIE’s progress and has the potential to prolong Cristina’s life by decades. Because no one in her immediate family was a marrow match, for Cristina to have a future that includes the kind of quality of life we would all want, she must now rely on the kindness of a stranger to donate their bone marrow (aka stem cells) to her.
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LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE LOVEEEEEEEEEE LOVEEEEEEEEEE
TWEEET #HOPEFORCRISTINA !
- jasminemejia
excuse-is-thaat-im-y0ung:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ! HELP CRISTINA FIND A DONOR PLEASE HELP ITS SIMPLE JUST TWEET #HOPEFORCRISTINA
PLEASE HELP GET THIS A TRENDING TOPIC WORLD WIDE IT WILL INCREASE CRISTINAS CHANCES OF FINDING A DONOR
excuse-is-thaat-im-y0ung:
SHE LOOKS HAPPY RIGHT? SHE LOOKS NORMAL AND PERFECTLY HEALTHY RIGHT ? UNFORTUNETLY SHES NOT… SHES FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE AND YOU CAN HELP HER SAVE IT AND HELP HER STAY STRONG BY TAKING THE TIME TO TWEET #HOPEFORCRISTINA . LEARN MORE ABOUT CRISTINA DI CORTE AND HER STORY BY CLICKING HERE. http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/videos/186925
SHE IS DIAGNOST WITH A DEADLY DISEASE. SHE CANNOT EAT . SHE NEEDS A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT TO HELP HER EXTEND HER EXISTENCE.
CRISTINA SAID ” im a young adult, i want a future, to have kids get married, but its hard to think that i might not have that”
please tweet #hopeforcristina
spread the word.
-jasminemejia
excuse-is-thaat-im-y0ung:
CRISTINA DI CORTE IS A BEAUTIFUL 22 YEAR OLD WHO IS SUFFERING FROM MNGIE DISEASE. WHATS MNGIE? OF COURSE YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT BECAUSE ONLY 70 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD IS DIAGNOST WITH THIS DISEASE AND CRISTINA IS ONE OF THEM. SHE NEEDS A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT AND NEEDS A DONOR TO SAVE HER LIFE. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORLD REBLOG AND TWEET #HOPEFORCRISTINA WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE !
- JASMINEMEJIA
