Time is running out for Jacqui Scott, who is still trying to raise $80,000 for crucial surgery in just six weeks.
Ms Scott was fitted with two surgical meshes after an attack and rape at her home in 2005, but 12 months later began to notice debilitating pain.
No one in New Zealand was qualified to extract the meshes and Ms Scott is trying to raise $138,000 for surgery in the United States, tentatively arranged for August. So far she has raised more than $55,000.
She said she wasn't part of the online support group Mesh Down Under, whose petition calling for the Government to open an urgent inquiry was read out in a Health Select Committee last week.
Her health has worsened since she last spoke to Hawke's Bay Today. "My situation has got a lot worse ... The pain has increased. I keep passing out."