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My name is Thomas Davila. I am a 37-year-old Chaffey College student, and I was born with the severest form of Spina Bifida.Â
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Spina Bifida is a condition that affects the spine and is usually apparent at birth; it is a type of neural tube defect.
For nearly two decades I have been going to school to obtain my associate degree
Ali Smith and Ann Abe who delivered meals across the Island as part of the Isle of Wight Community Rail Partnership A FINANCIAL boost of more than £34,000 has been distributed to local charities, community and voluntary groups to support Isle of Wight families struggling due to coronavirus. The Isle of Wight Council says seven applications have been approved - supporting around 1,000 Island families and vulnerable people. Its Connect4communities project is part of the authority s £456,845 Winter Grant Scheme, awarded by the Department for Work and Pensions. Among those to receive cash was the Isle of Wight Community Rail Partnership. It was awarded £8,330 to provide meals.
Mother pleads with thieves to return two-year-old Mia s wheelchair
Mia Farrell, who, due to Spina Bifida and hydrocephalus, is paralysed from the ribs down, will be left without her wheelchair this Christmas this year after thieves stole it from the family car
Two-year-old Mia Farrell, a three-year-old who has spina bifida, whose wheelchair was stolen from a jeep in Bruff Co Limerick
Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 13:00
Ryan O’Rourke
The mother of a two-year-old Limerick girl whose wheelchair was stolen last week has pleaded with the thieves to return the chair.
Mia Farrell, who, due to Spina Bifida and hydrocephalus, is paralysed from the ribs down, will be left without her wheelchair this Christmas this year after thieves stole it from the family car near her grandparents’ home on Monday, December 14.
A teenage showjumper is suing a GP over his alleged failure to tell her mother to take folic acid before she was conceived.
Paralympic hopeful Evie Toombes, from Skegness, has limited mobility after being born in 2001 with a form of spina bifida.
Through her mother Caroline Toombes, the 19-year-old has now brought the first step of a compensation claim against Dr Philip Mitchell, her mother s former GP.
Evie alleges that Dr Mitchell negligently failed to recommend that her mother should increase her intake of folic acid, a lack of which increases the risk of an unborn child developing spina bifida.