Mum seeks fundraising help to give son a chance to walk

Mum seeks fundraising help to give son a chance to walk

6:00pm Tuesday 17th September 2013 in News

A MOTHER is trying to raise 15,000 to send her disabled son to receive treatment that could enable him to walk.

Camren Haines, three, has a form of cerebral palsy that means he cannot stand and can move only by pulling himself along by his arms.

Mum Sophie Haines, 27, of Kidlington, hopes to send him to The Footsteps Centre in Dorchester-on-Thames.

The centre offers specialist rehabilitation that will help strengthen Camrens muscles and could help him to crawl or walk in the future.

Mrs Haines said: I cannot put into words how happy it would make me feel to see him stand up and walk for himself.

Just to see him do something for himself, something most children do without a second thought, would make the last three years a little bit less painful.

Camren was born prematurely at 27 weeks and was rushed to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. When he was discharged 111 days later, said Mrs Haines, she was told he was fine, but she found he could not extend his arms or stand unaided.

She said: I was back and forth to health visitors and doctors saying something is wrong, he is not growing properly or developing.

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