Salma: I'm basically in pain 24/7.
Salma: I had an accident happen at a swimming pool.
Salma: It was so traumatic.
Salma: My mom actually thought it was like my bathing suit or something.
Salma: There was a doctor there and he's like, “Those are intestines.”
Salma: It was horrible.
Salma: Yeah Ray and Jay - Ray and Jay are coming.
Mother: She will stay here?
Salma: Not a sleepover, no.
Mother: Just short visit today?
Salma: Yeah, we are going to see each other and stuff.
Mother: Okay.
Salma: My name is Salma and I am 16 years old.
Salma: I live in Pittsburgh.
Salma: With my mom and my two brothers.
Mother: Salma, she's amazing girl in the whole world.
Mother: Salma, she's a fighter. She is a miracle.
Salma: Yeah, having it for 10 years.
Salma: All the nutrition I get is my TPN, so I don't technically need to eat.
Salma: TPN is Total Parental Nutrition.
Salma: It is a bag full of fluids.
Salma: It has all the nutrition you need to survive basically.
Salma: But yet somehow, I get the sensation that I'm hungry.
Salma: Maybe it's a brain thing, maybe it's a mind thing, I have no idea.
Salma: So I still get the taste of the food.
Salma: Honestly, I don't even remember what it's like to swallow the food.
Salma: I mean it would be awesome to, you know, swallow the food again.
Salma: I can't really do much whenever I'm hooked up.
Salma: Because I have to carry it around in a backpack.
Salma: Especially when it's first hooked up, it's so heavy.
Salma: I need to stay hooked up to the TPN for 20 hours a day.
Mother: When she was five years old, she had a tragic accident.
Mother: It was vacation.
Mother: We have an apartment in Alexandria and Egypt.
Mother: That day, she went to the swimming pool.
Mother: I asked her to please stay in front of me.
Mother: Please, she is like “No, no, no mom it's for kids."
Mother: "It's very little for babies. I'm going. I'm going".
Mother: She went one time and she came back.
Mother: She went another time.
Mother: The third time she went and she didn't come back.
Salma: You know, if you actually let me go somewhere.
Salma: Which you probably will never let me go anywhere.
Mother: That’s Salma.
Salma: Controlling mother.
Salma: There was a suction in it.
Salma: It was actually pulling.
Salma: So I was just swimming and all of a sudden, like I just sat on it by accident.
Salma: I know the lifeguard tried to pull me out and he couldn't, because the suction was so much.
Salma: I could see what was going on but I couldn't even breathe.
Salma: I could remember the pain. I remember everybody panicking.
Salma: Everybody getting out of the pool.
Salma: I know a couple people finally were able to get me out.
Mother: I stand up and ran to her.
Mother: I found someone carrying her and all her, like intestines, came out from her body.
Mother: I couldn't believe this is intestines.
Mother: I thought at the beginning, I thought it's hair swimming through.
Mother: Literally like my whole stomach was just - it was horrible.
Mother: But the good thing is it was so bad that I basically blacked out after a little while.
Salma: I think I was in the hospital for maybe like two months.
Salma: That was back in Egypt.
Salma: Okay I'm in, I'm in.
Salma: It is so cold.
Salma: They said that I have about two weeks to live, if I don't get this transplant.
Salma: And they told us that Pittsburgh is the best place to go.
Mother: Egypt - we don't have any treatment for Salma right now.
Mother: We don't – even her TPN, we don't have it in Egypt.
Mother: We have to come to America. To do a transplant.
Salma: Since we're not citizens, we can't have insurance.
Salma: And we were on the transplant waiting list for 18 months.
Salma: And then I did receive my small intestinal transplant.
Salma: After two weeks of me receiving my transplant, I had my first rejection.
Salma: After another month or so, another one. I had a total of about five or six rejections.
Salma: And it was so bad that they opened me up to remove that one organ which was only small intestines.
Salma: And they found out that the rejection had spread.
Salma: So they actually had to remove my small intestines which I got transplanted.
Salma: And my large intestines.
Salma: My bladder was ruptured in the process.
Salma: And yeah, whenever they took everything out since the infection was so bad,
they unfortunately could not close me back up.
Salma: So it's healing slowly.
Salma: But, now it's literally - it's not healing any more.
Salma: They removed my transplant, they said that we couldn't have another one.
Last time was just one organ.
Salma: This is five organs.
Salma: They also – money, need money for admissions.
Salma: Money for complications, for home care, pre-op evaluation.
Salma: They need the money for everything.
Mother: Here, everything is like cost.
Mother: Everything’s cost.
Mother: Every admission, every visit, every clinic, every labs.
Mother: Only, her lab is like a thousand dollars every week.
Mother: She still smiles.
Mother: She is still a fighter.
Mother: She's still challenged with her situation. She's doing very, very good things for her.
Salma: My two friends - their names are JC and Reagan.
Salma: Basically we met at transplant camp.
Salma: Honestly, since camp we have not stopped talking.
Salma: We just understand each other so much because, JC actually had a small intestine transplant and it failed.
Salma: And then she got a multi-visceral transplant which is the same thing I need right now.
Salma: Hey.
Salma: Hey Zeda.
Salma: Hi guys.
Salma: Dude, we always have 300 people watching you.
Girl: 90
Salma: I build my viewers up and I work for it.
Mother: This is the dream to give her - like give her another chance.
Mother: Like her friend and she's good now.
Mother: And when she saw her, she gets hope.
Mother: She says I wish,
Mother: I wish I can get another one and I live like normal.
Mother: I said, just make pray. We keep praying.
Mother: It's impossible.
Salma: But, we shall be back after I'm done filming.
Salma: So I love you guys. Peace out.
Ray and Jay : Bye.
Salma: Bye.
Mother: Makeup artist.
Mother: She's good. She's good.
Mother: She's good, but she's mad at me, because I refused to do makeup.
Mother: She want to do my makeup. I said no, I don't like makeup.
Salma: I love doing my eyes, like eye shadow.
Salma: I barely do neutral looks. I always do crazy bold colors, which I love that.
Salma: I have a makeup page that I do lives on.
And I just like to go and do my makeup for fun.
Salma: That's what I love to do for fun.
Mother: I'm trying to help her. I'm trying to do anything to make her stay alive and feel she's a normal person.
Mother: I wish I can do her dream and make her wish to do another transplant.