Eunice Keightley needs to travel around 400 miles per month for hospital appointments, hospice visits and to attend school
A Northamptonshire five-year-old girl with a rare and inoperable brain tumour located on her spinal cord urgently needs a specialist car seat. Eunice Keightley is prescribed daily amounts of adult-strength painkillers to combat high levels of discomfort.
Eunice urgently needs a specialist seat costing £3,382 so she can travel in safety and comfort to and from her home in a small village just outside of Northampton. However, no funding is available for specialist car seats through her local health or social care providers.Newlife, the charity for sisabled children, has stepped in with an appeal to help raise the funds necessary to provide Eunice with the specialist car seat.
"It also has a seat which twists out to make it easier and safer for me to lift her in and out and has a wedge so I can ensure she is in exactly the right position, which would be amazing as its increasingly difficult to transfer her in and out of the car safely. But specialist car seats are so expensive and with the current cost of living being so high it’s just impossible for me to afford.”
"She would be so much more comfortable, and it would open up so many doors to us and we could do more outside. I’d love to take Eunice to the seaside and make some wonderful memories for us. To know she was travelling safely and comfortably would reduce my stress levels massively.”
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