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<p class="iphone-update"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you would like to donate by text, then please text LTOP98 + your donation to 70070 i.e LTOP98 £10</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="iphone-update"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Some of you know that my daughter, Lily-Mai</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">was born with a condition called hip dysplasia, but unfortunately this was not detected until she was 4 months old. We began to grow concerned when we noticed a couple of small signs, so Caroline went to see our doctor and we were referred to a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">consultant</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> at the hospital. They confirmed our fears and when she was 4 months old Lily-Mai was fitted with a pavlik harness</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> 24 hours a day</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> and then</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> one </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">month later</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">had an operation </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">on her hip before being</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> fitted with a hip spica cast. </span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When we found out she had hip dysplasia Caroline researched this extensively online and found the Steps website (</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.steps-charity.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; color: blue;">www.steps-charity.org.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">)<span style="color: black;">. Steps is a registered charity supporting children and adults affected by a lower limb condition such as clubfoot, or a condition known as developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). DDH is when the ball and socket do not fit snugly together: Lily-Mai has now had 6 X-rays at the hospital to examine the progress of her bone development.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We found the Steps website extremely useful and watched the videos with great interest. These videos definitely helped us in preparing us for what lie ahead and in dealing with changing nappies, feeding time and just getting her around. We also sent these videos onto her nursery, who were </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">fantastic in dealing with her cast/harness which reduced the concern on us, as first time parents.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Following her operation and removal of her cast, Lily-Mai then had to go </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">back </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">into</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> pavlik harness</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> for</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> 24 hours a day. During this whole time, it didn’t seem to affect Lily-Mai and she remained a happy, very contented baby. Even now, at 15 months old, she still wears a brace at night, but she seems to be catching up with her development, and like most babies she enjoys crawling at record speeds (she is actually quicker than me), eating remote controllers/mobile phones and throwing her food on the floor!!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am planning<span style="color: black;"> on cycling from London to Paris in June 2012 and would therefore like to raise money for Steps. This isn’t a</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">n</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">organised</span><span style="color: black;"> ride</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> where only a fraction goes to the charity</span><span style="color: black;">, so</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> all</span><span style="color: black;"> money raised will go straight to </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Steps</span><span style="color: black;">, and I will be financing my own travel and accommodation costs.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></span></p>
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