Manic Street Preachers have donated money to help a musician who was struggling to pay for a vital surgery.Ali Hirscz, who sings as part of Cambridge indie band Idealistics, is in need of corrective surgery after a previous operation severed the nerve to her trapezius muscle, causing it to waste away.The 22-year-old suffers from an incurable connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Due to a vascular compression on her small intestine, she also needs to be fed via a tube.“My skin is like tissue paper, it tears really easy,” she told the BBC.After the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the live music industry, stopping her band from earning an income, she turned to her fans for help in raising money for the surgery which is not.
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