Lily Gordon, a six-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, is taking her first steps after travelling from her home in England to go through surgery in the U.S.
Her parents, Joanne and David, were watching television a year ago when they saw the story of a boy with cerebral palsy who had travelled to the U.S. for pioneering Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy surgery. That the little boy was able to walk again was enough to motivate the family to try for the same surgery.
Through months of hard work and fundraising the family managed to gather 70,000 pounds to pay for their trip to The Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
“It was just by the off-chance we had seen the programme, and if we had not heard about it we may never have gone along that road,” said Joanne.
With her return home, Lily is going through rigorous physiotherapy three times a week. This comes after her four hour surgery in the states and another tendon lengthening surgery.
“Some people may expect her to be walking fully by now, but it is things like her sitting on the sofa on her own and the fact we can leave her to sit on a chair whereas before she would have just fallen off it. We can see as the weeks so on she is getting stronger,” said Joanne.
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