THERE are few consolations for someone living in constant pain with an incurable condition and severe financial worries.

But one is having exceptional friends, as Bridport mum Chloe Lippett-Evans has found out.

The 26-year-old, who was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), also known as Joint Hypermobility Syndrome in 2013, has been gifted a new mobility scooter by friends and another was so moved by her problems he set up a gofundme campaign to help her.

Chloe’s condition, for which there is no cure, causes her joints to dislocate several times a day, and she lives with crippling exhaustion and constant pain.

To add to her distress earlier this year she had to ileostomy surgery after her colon completely shut down. She is now on the, long, waiting list, to have her entire colon removed.

While she waits her full colon, which because of her condition is twice normal size, is causing almost unbearable symptoms and almost literally poisoning her. One of the gofundme page’s aims is to raise enough money for a private operation after Chloe was told she was unlikely to have the operation this year.

If the funding campaign reaches upwards of £15,000 she could have the surgery within two weeks.

Failing that money raised will be used to buy her a new wheelchair as her own is broken, and help with respite for husband Tony and daughter Amelia-Rose, 6, and alternative methods of pain relief.

She said: “It was just devastating to hear how long I would have to wait for the operation. Because of the toxicity of the colon I have infection after infection.

“I am not really responding well to the antibiotics. I break out fevers up to six times a day with sweat dripping down my face that makes me feel very confused and unwell. I get awful migraine headaches because of the toxicity. . I am effectively being poisoned.”

Because the colon is pressing on her stomach she cannot eat solid food, nor can she empty her bladder and must by taught self- catheterisation.

She added: “I am still determined to get out and about to do what I can but it is very embarrassing.

“Tony has had to give up his job to be my full-time carer because my health has deteriorated so much. It has left us in a pretty dire situation.”

Especially as Chloe is also fighting the benefits system – having fallen foul of clerical error and been deemed fit for work.

Chloe has also been helped by other friends who saw a post she’d put on her mum’s Facebook page showing a state-of-the-art mobility scooter.

She said: “The following day dad got a call from the company saying these friends of ours had bought it for me.

“It is overwhelming. It just blows me away that amount of kindness that somebody would want to set up the fund and buy me a scooter.”

Chloe’s page can be found at gofundme.com/foroursongbird.

Chloe also has a blog, Hips, clicks and bendy bits, and a YouTube channel Unexpected Songbird.