Family appeals for 65,000 to fund life-changing US op

Family appeals for 65,000 to fund life-changing US op

7:00am Tuesday 1st July 2014 in News By Alex Wynick, Reporter covering Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys. Call me on 01865 425403

CAMREN Haines cannot stand due to cerebral palsy, and has to use his arms to pull himself along the playroom carpet.

But now, after doctors told his family that he would always need a wheelchair, there is a chance that Camren could walk.

The Kidlington four-year-olds family need to raise 65,000 to travel to America for a life-changing operation that will enable him to take his first steps.

His mum Sophie said: The expert in America said he will be able to walk with a walking frame.

I have hope that maybe Camren will surpass what doctors think now and will be able to walk unaided. The skys the limit.

Camren is using two-year-old Sophia Aitken, from Witney, as his role model, after she successfully had the procedure last year and can now take her first, tentative, steps unaided.

Camren was born prematurely at 27 weeks. When he was one year old, the family was told he had global developmental delay.

Three months later it was confirmed he had spastic quadriplegia, a form of cerebral palsy.

Excerpt from:
Family appeals for 65,000 to fund life-changing US op