£100k fundraiser launched to help four-year-old Fife boy get ‘life-changing’ surgery

Charity Just4Children has set up the fundraising campaign, to give little Cameron Gilmour from Anstruther the support he needs. Cammy, as he likes to be known, was born 15 weeks premature in December 2015. He was tiny – weighing in at 1lb 13 oz.

The next few months were every parents’ nightmare. He was on a ventilator for three months, and there were days and nights his parents thought he would not survive. He had to endure various operations and procedures and numerous blood transfusions.

Miraculously, he pulled through and in April 2016, after 129 days in hospital, he was taken home.

However, his parents soon learned that Cammy had quadriplegic cerebral palsy. He has difficulty with muscle control and coordination. He also has spasticity in his limbs which means he can not do the things that other children take for granted like crawling, standing and walking.

Just4Children needs to raise £100,000 to enable Cammy to have intensive therapy and hopefully life-changing Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) surgery. Because of the severity of his condition this treatment is not available on the NHS. It is however available at The St Louis Children’s Hospital in the US.

This comes at a considerable cost – not only for the surgery itself but also for therapy and specialist equipment that will be required to get the full benefits of the surgery.

It is hoped the operation will free Cammy from the daily pain and frustration caused by his spasticity and enable him to sit up, crawl and maybe even walk one day. To make a donation, visit – just4children.org/children-helped2020/team-cammy-g.