This is all so hard on our Katie... MUM OF CEREBRAL PALSY TEEN TELLS OF BATTLE TO GET FUNDS
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Antoinette explained during an interview on RedFm: “She basically doesn’t want me to be constantly trying to raise the funds for her.
“It’s so hard on her. Everything is just getting to her, the longer this is going on the worse it’s affecting her.
“She said ‘mam, I don’t want to do this’. It’s just getting on top of her.
“My life at the moment just revolves around trying to get her what she needs.”
In 2022, Antoinette and Katie met with world-renowned American surgeon, Dr Dror Paley, who said he could help with her dysplastic hip.
This is a condition where the “ball and socket” joint of the hip does not properly form in babies and young children.
Antoinette is now trying to gather up the money to pay for the surgery, which can only be carried out at the Paley Orthopaedic & Spine Institute in Florida.
Doctors in Ireland won’t even attempt the procedure.
She explained: “There is no doctor that will touch her bar Dr Dror Paley … it’s absolutely ridiculous but what can I do if he’s the only doctor that will help her.”
She added: “There’s been so many excuses that we’ve been given. It’s just so hard on her.”
Trips
Antoinette said Katie has missed so much school this year and a number of trips with her classmates as a result of her condition.
She also told how Katie gets physio from trainee students “once in a blue moon” and reckons when those sessions finish she won’t get anything else for the rest of the year.
Antoinette added: “Katie is strong, physically wise she is strong.
“She’ll tell me that her hip is at her, and I’ll do her physio with her. If it’s really bad.”
She said her daughter’s case has been brought up in the Dail but so far the Government has done nothing to help.
Katie was first diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was 17 months old.
‘The longer this goes on, the worse it’s affected her’
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When she was six, Katie underwent Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy surgery, which allowed her to walk.
But as a result of her dysplastic hip, “her legs are starting to deteriorate and she is slowly becoming more dependent on crutches and her wheelchair”, hence the need for the costly procedure in the United States.
Antoinette set up a GoFundMe to raise funds to pay for the expensive surgery.