Britain’s grandest lottery winners pay for four-year-old’s surgery

Winners of Euromillions Chris and Colin Weir have assisted young cerebral paralysis patient to get up and walk without assistance which is surprising to most people.

Four year old, Skye Swinton, diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral paralysis has started walking for the first time since she was diagnosed with the disease and used the wheelchair to move around for the first time.

However doctors informed her family that she could be helped with a revolutionary surgery called specific dorsal rhizotomy which struggled to increase the £40,000 needed to pay for it.

Winners of the country's most generous lottery decided to take out £30,000 from their total winnings of £161million fortune to pay for a spinal surgery to help a little four year old girl stand up on her feet again and walk.

Ruth Swinton, 39, approached Chris and Colin when a NHS trust denied giving her a subsidy for her four-year-old daughter's unpredictable surgery which could help Skye walk again.

Her daughter suffered from cerebral paralysis. Skye has started walking, with the help of sticks after having the surgery done at the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.


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