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A cure for cerebral palsy?

Regular readers of my blog would know my son Daniel (14) has had cerebral palsy all his life.  While his CP only limits his movement, mostly to a wheelchair, we are fortunate that he has the gift of a great mind and can articulate himself and his needs through speech albeit with difficulty.  He has faced a lot of obstacles in his short life, as detailed in my blog, however it is a life for which he knows no different.

As parents we recently we found ourselves in a situation where the question was posed to Daniel, “If you were able to have an operation to remove your cerebral palsy, or lessen its effect, would you?”.

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Electrical Wheelchair – Good or Bad?

You would think giving an electrical wheelchair to a child with limited mobility would be an overwhelmingly positive experience? Well it was … at least at first! What happened over the course of the following twelve months was something that no-one expected. Read more: Electrical Wheelchair – Good or Bad?

Is the struggle worth it?

When I was a boy I loved getting my Hot Wheels cars and pushing them along the ground. Watching as they crashed into each other or got under mum and dad’s feet as I flung them across the kitchen floor.  I loved assembling the long tracks, clamping one end to the dining room table and watching as they whizzed down to the bottom, just in time for me to collect them and take them up to the top again.

Daniel loves his hot wheels cars; he has over 400 of them.

He got them out one day and I watched him as he tried to push one of them across the carpet, desperately attempting to enjoy the same feeling that I had when I was a little boy.

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The struggle between heart, mind and body

We spoke with Daniel the other day about what subjects he would like to elect for next year at school.  Daniel is in High School now and is in the process of selecting what subjects he would like to study for next year (Year 9).

The school has been amazingly supportive of everything that Daniel has tried his hands at, and although Daniel throws himself at everything with reckless abandon, there is always varying degrees of success.

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