Spinal Injuries Awareness Day
This Spinal Injuries Awareness Day, Friday 16th May 2014, you can help us to Bring Bel Hope.
Bel was just eight years old when she fell from a climbing frame.
“No child or parent should have to go through something like this. To see your child lifeless on the floor having mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, being stretchered into the ambulance with tubes everywhere, flashing blue lights and the piercing sirens, is a memory no mother should have to live with. To have a child with a spinal cord injury is not only frightening but a life-changing event,” Vanessa Young, Bel’s Mum
Bel spent 10 months in intensive care and is now paralysed from the neck down. She is dependent on her parents for 24 hour care and relies on a ventilator to breathe at night. Her life has been devastated by her injury.
Can you help us to raise awareness of spinal cord injury and the work that Spinal Research is doing to transform the lives of paralysed people? Can you donate to our Bring Bel Hope Appeal to raise vital funds? Or can you hold a fundraising event for us?
Bel now faces a lifetime of care unless there is a new treatment to reverse her paralysis. That is why all our scientists are working around the clock.
“I pray one day that Bel will be able to walk again but even improvements that would help her move one arm so she could feed herself would be a miracle as far as we are concerned. We live in hope.” Vanessa, Bel’s Mum
Spinal cord repair research is Bel’s only hope, along with the 50,000 other people like her currently living with spinal cord paralysis in the UK and Ireland – and millions more around the globe. Spinal Research is working to make that hope a reality.
Please donate to our ‘Bring Bel Hope’ appeal and help us to beat paralysis. You can make a donation at www.justgiving.com/BringBelHope
