Evelyn Moore She has a short life but she is already a fighter. With four months she was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma in the spine, so she had to undergo, so small, eight sessions of chemotherapy. For three months, cancer is in remission, but the biggest sequel to his illness is that The girl was paralyzed from the waist down, and can never walk.
But since she is still too small to use a children's wheelchair, they found another way to help her. The mother looked for the instructions on the internet and the father got down to work: for less than 100 euros they made a homemade wheelchair, And it is incredible the ease with which little Evelyn dominates her new means of transport.
A touching story
The news of cancer was devastating. A nurse noticed a lump in the spine at the girl's hip and a few days later she was diagnosed with a stage 4 neuroblastoma tumor. Neuroblastoma is a very aggressive type of childhood cancer that spreads through the nerve tissue of the adrenal gland, the neck, the thorax or the spinal cord. Due to its advanced growth, it could not be extracted, so the little girl had to undergo chemotherapy treatment.
He was told that he could learn to crawl with his arms until he was two years old and could access a special wheelchair. But in addition to being very expensive, parents did not want to waste time, precisely at a fundamental stage of psychomotor development in which the girl starts exploring everything.
They did not want to take away the opportunity to move by your own means to discover the world, as all children do at their age, so they searched on the Internet "How to make a homemade wheelchair for babies." They got on Pinterest a tutorial of a wheelchair created from a Bumbo armchair that a mother had made for her baby with mobility problems. They also used a wooden board, small bicycle wheels and a wheel for the table.
In one night, Brad built the chair with the help of his wife with all the love in the world, knowing that they were giving his little girl a new opportunity. They even personalized it with their name.
An expert pilot
It is amazing how children learn to get the most out of themselves according to their possibilities. She is not aware that she cannot use her legs and learned to move in this way as if it were normal.
At first it was hard to get used to using it, it started with small movements, but now You can go forward, backward, turn corners and turn at full speed, so much that they had to modify it so that it was not so fast.
Now nothing stops her. According to her oncologist, "it's like any child, although she is much faster."
Less than a hundred euros cost them to make their daughter's homemade wheelchair, but the possibility they gave her move, gain confidence and play as a child over his age, is priceless.
