Mahurangi family pins hopes on life-changing surgery
Without treatment, Sienna Houston faces a life of debilitating agony.
A 12-year-old Warkworth girl will travel to New York next month for life-changing pioneering surgery that will give her a chance at a normal teenage life.
Sienna Houston has been diagnosed with “idiopathic adolescent scoliosis”, a severe curvature of the spine. If left untreated, her spine will continue to degenerate and result in a life of debilitating agony.
Mum Kim Byrne says already Sienna’s ribs are already uneven and one of her shoulders sits nearly two inches higher than the other. Her ribs are putting pressure on her lungs and stomach, impairing her ability to breathe and eat.
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