Evie-Lou looks ready to be up and walking
A brave five-year-old girl who travelled to America for vital surgery on her spine has been told she could be walking independently within two years if she continues her current rate of progress.
Evie-Lou Harrington, who has cerebral palsy, has returned to her home in Llangynog in Mid Wales after spending the past month month in Missouri having two operations at St Louis Children's Hospital.
And her mum Donna said Evie-Lou's surgeon had told her that if she continued her physiotherapy she could be walking independently by the time she is seven.
Evie-Lou has already returned to classes at Ysgol Pennant School after missing her school mates while she was away.
"We have always been told that Evie would never be able to walk independently," she said.
"But before we left America the surgeon, Dr TS Park, told us that, if Evie progresses as much as she has done the last couple of weeks, and if she continues her physiotherapy, she should be walking independently by the time she is seven."
The Evie's Dream fund was set up to raise the £30,000 needed to cover the cost of her trip to America. But there were worrying times when Mrs Harrington said that it had hit home to her how much health services cost in America.
"Evie fell during physio and split her lip and we did think at one time we might have to pay out for a trip to the A&E department," she said.
"The treatment we have had in America has been second to none, but it is frightening when you wonder how you would pay if there were problems."
