All treatments would be covered by the NHS and disability benefits for children here are quite generous. They likely would have received free adaptations to their home too.
I just found another MSM article the mum did about another one of her children with the condition, this time a girl (contains pics of child so I won't link). Apparently people stole this child's wheelchair from their shed and vandalised it so she had to be pushed to school in a pushchair/buggy. Why go to a media outlet?
What stood out to me though is this young girl has a different surname to Bernadette, her mother, and her dad SW. A different father? Article also states the other two children who have the condition in the family are younger siblings, with their condition being hereditary presumably they have the same parentage as their sister in this article. So is SW actually the father of these kids? I can't figure out the dynamics of this family and the attention seeking of the mother, I thought they were all full siblings.
These poor babies, and now having to go through all of this , their stability and family has been torn apart
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Sarah said: "
[female child] is almost constantly in pain. Her legs go to jelly and she’ll suddenly fall over, and she often says she has pins and needles in her feet.
“The most we and her doctors can do is try our best to relieve her pain, but there have been times when she’s been in so much agony she’s chosen to wet the bed rather than get up and go to the toilet.
“Because cold makes it worse, she has to wear tights and leggings under her trousers during the winter. We’re constantly battling to keep her warm enough.”
When the tumours do surface,
[female child] must have them surgically removed – leading to four operations in just a year.
Because the tumours have a 50% chance of regrowth,
[female child] is classified as an open case with the hospital and don’t have to worry about going through the referral process all over again every time they visit.
Sarah said: “The doctor even said, ‘I’m going to be seeing a lot of this young lady over the next ten years,’ about
[female child].”
Because the little girl also suffers from osteoarthritis, it is thought she will be completely dependent on a wheelchair by the time she reaches her forties