Parents complete mud run for disabled son

Parents of little boy with cerebral palsy complete Tough Mudder event to raise funds for new wheelchair

5:00pm Friday 9th May 2014 in News By Emma Joseph

TOUGH CHALLENGE: Jo and Jon Dilling with sons Harrison and Reece.

THE parents of a little boy with cerebral palsy have completed a gruelling physical challenge in order to improve the life of their son.

Five-year-old Harrison Dilling, from Glenmoor Road, Ferndown, is quadriplegic and completely wheelchair-bound.

His mum and dad Jo and Jon have set up Harrisons Trust Fund to pay for his treatment and equipment and are now desperately saving for a wheelchair adapted vehicle.

Both keen athletes, the pair took part in the Tough Mudder London West in a bid to raise 5,000 for the vehicles deposit.

The race, a 12-mile endurance test, includes swamps, electric shocks, walls to scale and chest-high ice cold water, but Jon and Jo were determined to set themselves a real challenge for Harrison.

Jon said: Quite frankly and with having now completed it, to call it tough is an absolute understatement, but we wanted to do something which was as equally challenging and testing for us, as every day clearly is for Harrison.

It hurt, a lot, but was loads of fun and we are now both in the possession of the prized orange Tough Mudder headband to prove it.

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