Aaron is a 27 year old Australian born citizen living in New Zealand with his partner, he has had a love for animals, the beach and getting out and about. He has always found himself walking the beach, trekking the forest and exploring what both Australia and New Zealand has to offer.

Aaron has always had a love for children and held his hand high for any baby sitting that friends and family needed help with. Aaron feels like it’s his turn to be a father and doesn’t want to deteriorate further before the experience of becoming a father and raising a child.

He has suffered from chronic pain as a result of a condition called “Refractory congenital musculoskeletal Degeneration” his whole life which has caused his whole body to ache and has caused him over the past 5 years to have strong opioids to get some form of relief.

Currently, Aaron is sitting in hospital in New Zealand with a new symptom, the sudden onset paralysis of his right leg caused from an impingement in his lower thoracic spine, this has of course affected his mobility and his love for life as he feels he can no longer do some of the things he loves, and he can no longer support his partner and their soon to be growing family. He’s not funded by ACC as it is congenital, and he’s not funded publicly as he’s only been a New Zealand resident for 6 months.

Aaron does not have insurance and can not afford insurance either.

Aaron is asking the kind people of Givealittle to help him find his mobility and independence again, he is hoping to see an Orthopaedic Surgeon and have his lower limbs and back reconstructed and decompressed and hopefully

fix a lifetime of pain and regain the use of his right leg.