Family launches £40,000 campaign to help Cockermouth girl Megan

Last updated at 16:14, Friday, 09 November 2012

A Cockermouth mother has launched a campaign to raise 40,000 for pioneering treatment that could help her disabled daughter.

FUND-TASTIC: Friends and family of Cockermouth School pupil Megan White, who was born with cerebral palsy, are raising funds to help pay for pioneering treatment. From left: mum Kerrie Iredale, Megan, 12, twin sister Leah, little sister Kara Beattie, five, and grandmother Peggy Bradshaw

If the treatment works, Kerrie Iredale, of Bellbrigg Lonning, hopes daughter Megan White will one day fulfil her dream of being able to ride a bike.

Megan was born 10 weeks premature and has cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia.

The Cockermouth School pupils condition means she has trouble walking and has poor co-ordination.

She uses a walking frame, stick or wheelchair to get around but would love a bicycle.

In 2008 she had an operation to straighten her right foot but the results were not what the family had expected.

Kerrie, 35, said Megans confidence took a turn for the worse and she took months to recover.

Now Kerrie wants to raise money so that Megan, who has a twin sister Leah, can have stem cell treatment only available in China, Germany or America, which has produced excellent results in treating cerebral palsy.

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