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| Gloria before Gloria with her mom |
A 12-year-old girl from Accra, Ghana.Gloria Abeka, who is sufferring from Blount disease which caused her legs to bend inwards below the knee… making her dependent upon a wheelchair before she can move. She has never been able to
stand, walk, or play with her friends.
After a charity appeal, Vel Sakthivel, an orthopaedic surgeon at Southampton Children’s Hospital, offered to operate. He was forced to break each of her legs in three places so as to reshape them.
Gloria, pictured with her mother, Mercy Yeboah (right) will spend more than eight months in the UK recovering from the operations to correct her bowed legs, which also involved pinning them with 22 screws.
She is now able to sit and stand and she will soon be able to walk and play with friends for the first time. Gloria said the doctors who helped her have changed her life.
Her mom said she is very elated to see her daughter walk after so many years of not being able to walk. Praise thy Lord for what he has done in my daughter's life.
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