Otis Our UBA5 Warrior

Just4Children are fundraising for specialist equipment and physiotherapy to help Otis hold his head up, sit, stand and walk and to overall improve his quality of life.

£45837.09
Total raised
91.67%
£50,000.00
Target
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132 donations

Recent donations

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£40.00 from Verena and Steve
"Well done, you are a warrior ❤ and thanks for encouraging me to get out for a mince pie fuelled run too!"
£50.00 from Jen
"Well done Georgie! "
£30.00 from Melz
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£20.00 from Carol
"Thought I’d make it up to £400.00. Well done Georgina, Richard and I are so proud of you. You smashed it girl x x x well done to Dulles form Maximoo x x x"
£10.00 from Bridget Ellerington
"That's my girl very well done. We are all very proud of you. XxX"
£150.00 from Mum, Andrew and Paisley
"You are amazing! Xxx"
£50.00 from Lucy and Joe
"Go Georgie! Seriously you are amazing! We are all so lucky to have you - not just Otis! 😍💕👏🏃‍♀️xxxx"
£100.00 from Hilda Bellamy
"Great work in support of your little brother. Well done"
£20.00 from Neil and Jill Longhorn
"Good Luck Georgie (and Duke)! 😄"
£HIDDEN from Peter Bellamy
"Good luck Georgina xx"
£HIDDEN from Beth and Tom
"Go girl, you can smash it. If I was closer, I would come and run it with you x x x"
£30.00 from Bridget, Rich and Maximoo

Just4Children are fundraising for specialist equipment and physiotherapy to help Otis hold his head up, sit, stand and walk and to overall improve his quality of life.

Otis is 14 months old from Oswestry in Shropshire. He has an extremely rare genetic condition called UBA5 which only 30 other children in the world have. This gene alteration means Otis has a devastating type of epilepsy called infantile spasms. This type of epilepsy means Otis struggles to develop in any area because his brain is constantly chaotic. Our little prince is tube fed as he has an unsafe swallow, he also has dystonia, quadraplegic cerebral palsy, global development delay, and is unable to see (we are praying this will change with therapy).

When Otis was 6 months old we were admitted to hospital as he was just so poorly. We spent Christmas day in hospital before being transferred to a specialist Children’s hospital. We stayed at Alder Hey Children’s hopsital for 5 months. In this time Otis had 3 surgeries, and was trialled on various medications.

We have been home 4 months now, and it is so clear that early intervention is going to be key if we are to improve Otis’ quality of life. The NHS have been amazing, we can’t thank them enough for the care we received in Alder Hey. However the NHS is just so stretched and doesn’t cover what you would think is essential such as physio for a child that can’t hold his head up or a rain cover for a specialist wheelchair.

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