Just4Children are wanting to raise funds for specialist medical and mobility equipment, and private therapies for Evelyn aged 3 from Newtonmore in Invernessshire.

Evelyn was born on 25th April 2020 in Cairo, Egypt, where her family were living and working at the time. She was blue and not breathing. Evelyn had suffered from something called HIE (hypoxic, ischaemic encephalopathy). She was intubated for five days and in hospital for a total of 55 days before she was taken home.

As time went on in hospital, both in Egpyt and then back in the UK, it became clear that Evelyn had gone a significant amount of time without oxygen at birth. After a "normal" pregnancy and her being born full-term, her family have no idea why or how she suffered such a severe injury.

Evelyn is diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy (affecting her whole body), dystonia, severe epilepsy including infantile spasms, and dysphagia so she is tube fed, she is visually impaired and has severe to profound hearing loss. Evelyn also has obstructive sleep apnoea which means she often requires oxygen at night and due to the high tone in her limbs, both of her hips are now dislocated. This is a pretty extensive list of diagnoses and as time goes on and she grows, her family are aware that things will change and new interventions will need to be put in place.

At present, her family do a variety of private therapies with Evelyn alongside her NHS appointments. This includes online OT with Smile Therapy for Kids in Canada, who they would love to take Evelyn to for an intensive one day. We also do private physiotherapy, DMI, ABM, movement therapy, reflex integration, and oxygen therapy. Her parent's have also found that due to Evelyn's complex needs, some equipment provided by the NHS isn't supportive or comfortable enough for her, meaning we are having to seek funding elsewhere to purchase these things.

Her parents are so grateful for any support they receive on this journey, as you are helping make Evelyn's life more enjoyable and accessible so that she can continue to have all the adventures in her life.

I have the amazing pleasure to get to know this amazing little girl who has the most fabulous personality and her family and hope to raise funds for them to use to support the on going therapies.

So my bit I’m setting myself the challenge to run my 1st 10K in inverness and hoping to be able to get to the end.

I hope you can support this fundraising effort and Evelyn.

Thank you

Trisha