Camren is 4 years old, he has Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy which means all four of his limbs are very stiff and tight, he also has muscle spasms often through the night so he wakes up crying. He is able to sit independently, often for as long as 15-20 minutes keeping himself occupied but it is not possible to leave him unsupervised as he could fall over and forget to put his hands down to save himself so he will then get hurt. He tries very hard in everything he does; sitting, crawling and standing (he can do this but with quite a bit of support).  He is really good at crawling, using his arms to himself along and he is learning to use his legs whilst crawling but he still finds this incredibly hard. But what Camren really wants is to be able to run around with his friends and play football and he is very determined that when he is a grown-up he wants to be a Fireman and a helicopter pilot!!! 

We are fundraising so that Camren can have life changing surgery in America, at St Louis Children's Hospital. The operation is called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (or SDR) and the leading surgeon who invented the procedure, Dr TS Park has performed over 3,000 SDR operations over a period of almost 30 years on children and adults, and each time has considerably improved the patients quality of life. SDR is going to transform Camren's life and Dr Park, has said that Camren will walk using a walking frame but we are really hoping that with enough hard work and determination he will surpass this expectation and maybe one day he might take his first unaided steps!!! To be able to take Camren to America and pay for all the equipment (walking frame, sticks, splints for his legs) and post-op physio and other rehabilitation activities for two years we are going to need to raise £65,000!!! We are on the list for a May date and we will be told in March/April our exact date! We are extremely grateful and happy that Camren has been given this chance but we are not forgetting that of course there is a lot of work to do before then to raise the money in time!! All we really want is to be able to give Camren the best life possible so he can join in with games his friends are playing, to have fun with his big sister Bethany and realise his dreams of a career as a fireman or a helicopter pilot!!