Help Delilah's Journey With Cerebral Palsy

Hello, thanks for visiting our page. We are raising funds for our Daughter, Delilah and her lifelong journey with Cerebral Palsy with a small percentage going to the brilliant charity Tree of Hope.

Delilah is our little miracle baby, who against all odds, fought so hard to be here! After a normal healthy pregnancy, I experienced a complicated labour which resulted in a cord prolapse. This is where the umbilical cord slips under the baby's head, cutting off vital oxygen and blood to their brain. She had to be resuscitated at birth and rushed to Intensive care where we didn't know what would happen... She miraculously made it through but her little brain showed severe brain damage on an MRI a few days after she was born.

We knew she would face challenges but we didn't know what her future would look like. When she was 1 years old we received a diagnosis of dystonic Cerebral Palsy which is a neurological movement disorder that affects the muscles, coordination and balance. Since the diagnosis we have been researching the best therapies and support for Delilah to help her as best we can to live a full and happy life.

She has absolutely amazed us with her spirit of determination, her zest for life and her beautiful shining personality. She is unable to walk unaided and is non verbal and the therapies that we have been doing are geared towards helping her use her body to its fullest capacity and increase neural pathways in the brain.

The brain is an amazing machine and we know that a diagnosis is a guide not a sentence - We believe in the healing power of positivity combined with cutting edge therapies to help Delilah reach her full potential.

As her full time carer, I cannot work and my partner is working part time to help me, so we are raising money towards all costs of private therapies, equipment, days out, travel and anything that helps towards her journey with cerebral palsy.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support

Love, Zoe and Dave

7.5% of all donations to Tree of Hope through this appeal will be allocated to the general charitable purposes of Tree of Hope to cover core operating costs. If insufficient or surplus funds are raised, they will be used to support Delilah’s needs in accordance with Tree of Hope’s charitable objectives.

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