I am doing a skydive to help raise funds to send Ollie for a life changing operation in St Louis and to get him the therapy he needs to walk for the first time.

When his Mum was pregnant with Ollie there were many complications. She went into labour at 29 weeks which the doctors managed to stop by putting me on a drip. Ollie was born 5 weeks premature and as a result of this he sufferd PVL of the brain. This causes grey matter in the brain to die due to a lack of oxygen.

As a result Ollie has developed Cerebral palsy spastic diplegia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic_diplegia which makes daily tasks very hard.

Ollie is unable to sit properly without support and unable to walk at the moment and it's unlikely he will ever walk unaided.

Our Mission

Our mission is to raise £50,000 to pay for an operation in the States called SDR (Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy) and for specialist physiotherapy. My personal mission is to raise at least £2000 towards the £50k target.

http://www.stlouischildrens.org/content/medservices/AboutSelectiveDorsalRhizotomy.htm

The procedure involves going into the spine and cutting rootlets firing spasticity to the legs, leaving the good ones intact. Dr Parks has had a 100% success rate with these operations.

Email: sendollietostlouis@hotmail.co.uk

Anyone interested in helping the Send Ollie To St Louis Appeal is asked to contact us on http://sendollietostlouis.fullonweb.com/

 

Important note to donors: As long as Ollie requires the funds raised to pay for treatment in the United States and post-operative physiotherapy, Caudwell Children will manage all payments of funds for the family. Should there come a time, for whatever reason, that Ollie no longer requires the funds raised for medical treatment and living expenses while in America then the monies raised will be used to provide similar donations to sick and disabled children living within the UK through the charity, Caudwell Children.

 

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