Mum's campaign to help Sophia walk

Mum's campaign to help Sophia walk

6:00am Wednesday 23rd July 2014 in News

A MUM is trying to raise 75,000 to send her youngest daughter to the USA for a lifechanging operation.

Kayleigh Kilbane, 22, is desperate for her two-year-old daughter Sophia, who has cerebral palsy, to have the surgery, which will allow her to walk without pain.

The selective dorsal rhizotomy operation has not been widely available in the UK, as health bosses have to first agree to meet the 24,000 cost.

But last week the NHS, which had stopped the operations, announced it would fund 120, to judge how effective they are before continuing with them.

Miss Kilbane wants Sophia to have the op at St Louis childrens hospital, in Missouri, which has been doing them for 25 years.

She said: I have spoken to a couple of people whose children had operations there and they have done over 2,700 operations and only three had trouble.

They have not long been doing it in the UK.

She wants Sophia to be able to playwith brother Aiden, five, and Louie, two, without having to be in a standing or sitting frame.

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