Harper’s Radiothon Story

It was a fluke mishap that led to a agelong travel for Harper. One blistery summertime time successful 2024, Harper fell from an above-ground excavation with her arms extended out, resulting successful extreme, lasting pain.

The family learned that Harper’s autumn had caused a brachial plexus injury, resulting successful nervus damage. This meant Harper’s limb was numb, she couldn’t locomotion and she had symptom connected the full near broadside of her body. It was wide to Kendra that Harper needed specialized attraction not disposable successful their hometown, Lethbridge, truthful they were referred to the Alberta Children’s Hospital, wherever Harper was introduced to the Complex Pain Clinic.

Kendra says from the infinitesimal they met with the analyzable pain team, they felt alleviation and they knew they were going to beryllium taken attraction of. They spoke with a sheet of experts including doctors, nurses, psychologists and physiotherapists, who looked astatine Harper – and astir importantly, ways to assistance her consciousness amended – from each angles.

Harper’s attraction program included physiotherapy and medicine to springiness Harper symptom alleviation from the nervus damage, and to assistance her with the captious physiotherapy which would assistance with her healing.

Kendra says the squad answered each Harper’s questions, including: “Will I get better?” And they reassured her that she would, though it would instrumentality time. Harper went done months of physiotherapy and nervus artifact treatment. There were limitations to what she could bash physically, due to the fact that it would impede her progress, but Kendra says their physiotherapist helped her find solutions for things she could bash alternatively – similar playing ringette, which Harper loves.

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Throughout the people of Harper’s treatment, she went from not being capable to brushwood her hairsbreadth with her near hand, to today, doing cartwheels. Kendra says Harper calls the squad astatine the Complex Pain Clinic “the radical who helped maine consciousness better.”