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We are walking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks on 19th March to help raise money for my friends Gavin and Jae's 6 year old daughter Amy to go to the USA for a life changing operation in April 2016.

Amy was born 10 weeks premature. During her first weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit she suffered an infection which damaged parts of her brain including the areas which affect her motor skills. This has left Amy with Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and makes her at this time, completely dependent on others for all everyday tasks.

The operation in the USA called SDR- Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. This involves the Surgeon going into Amy’s spine, testing the various nerves running through her body, and cutting the mis-firing ones, leaving Amy with a better signal from her brain to her muscles,  The hope is that after the operation Amy will see improvements in feeding, talking, motor skills, learning, mobility, general development and less pain. Any of these improvements will give Amy a brighter future.

Amy is one of the most positive and determined little girls you could meet.  She never lets her condition hold her back and this procedure could really change her life.

The Yorkshire 3 peaks is a big challenge for us - a 24 mile hike across three peaks in one day which will hopefully take us about 12 hours to complete (otherwise we will be out of daylight!!).  

If you can support Amy with a donation, however small, to the costs of this operation and therapy we and Amy's parents would be enormously grateful.  Encouraging messages also welcomed!

More information on Amy is here: https://www.facebook.com/sdrforamy/?fref=ts

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