Cameron Hunter has had to 'battle' since the day he was born
Denise Hunter, 47, from Southport , admitted she has struggled raising her four children, one with cerebral palsy, on her own, while battling severe depression. Her children, Eleanor, 24, Sam, 17, Cameron, 16 and Benjamin, 8, have been her reason to fight every single day. But it hasn't always been easy.
"I said to them something is not right. Then the next thing I knew there was a lot of pain, more than usual - I already had two children so I knew it wasn't right - a flood of doctors came in and they said he is too far down the birth canal, and he is going to be breech. "At nine months we saw a paediatrician and that is when he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He was tiny. For nine months he hadn't really eaten it was only then he started feeding. We realised he was really poorly. He had a scan done that showed that the left side of his brain was dead, he would never use his right arm or right leg."
"He wasn't walking, he was still in nappies and still on meds, but we got him on his first trike and because he was strapped into it his bad leg had to move. I am adamant that it got him walking. The mum-of-three at the time met a new man and moved to Southport, where she had baby number four - Cameron's younger brother, Benjamin. Denise said: "We settled here and he got his second trike, we had his legs moving again and things were good. We could do everything on this trike, it helped us as a family.
Things have finally got better for Denise, she says she has "never been in a better place," and wants to be able to take her children out again, but sadly Cameron is too big for his trike now and needs a new one. Unfortunately, due to financial problems Denise can't afford a new trike for her son.
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