Yeovil girl, nine, who was forced to learn to walk again after Covid raised £7,000 for the NHS
Girl, 9, with Long Covid who’s had to learn to walk again has raised £7,000 for the NHS by doing laps of the garden with her walker – and vows to continue until she can do one circuit unaided
Emily Saville, from Somerset, raised £7,000 for the NHS Charities Together The nine-year-old girl was forced to learn how to walk again after getting Covid She is following in the footsteps of Captain Sir Tom Moore to raise fundsDoing laps of her garden with a walker until she can complete one unaided
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A nine-year-old girl, who was forced to learn how to walk again after contracting Covid-19 has raised £7,000 for the NHS Charities Together.
Emily Saville, from Yeovil in Somerset, spent two weeks in hospital after being struck down with the virus in September 2021 and continues to struggle with Long Covid.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Friday with Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard, Emily explained: ‘When I was in hospital the NHS done so much for me that I want to pay them back in anyway I could.’
NHS doctors were baffled when she lost her mobility to walk three days after getting Covid and Emily still suffers with serve pain today.
She is now on the long road to recovery and still needs a wheelchair and walker to get around.
The schoolgirl decided she wants to give something back to the NHS who treated her – and she is now following in the footsteps of Captain Sir Tom Moore.
She has already raised more than £7,000 for NHS Charities Together by doing laps of her garden – and said she will continue until she is able to complete one lap unaided.
Emily Saville, from Yeovil in Somerset, spent two weeks in hospital after being struck down with Covid in September 2021
Emily, who is forced to learn how to walk again after contracting Covid-19, has raised £7,000 for the NHS Charities Together
Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Friday with Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard, Emily explained she wants to ‘give back’ to the NHS for their help
Ben asked how hard it’s been to learn to walk again, and Emily replied: ‘It has been really hard but there have been loads of people supporting me, so that has given me the extra boost I need.’
Emily’s mother Louise explained that three days into her daughter catching Covid-19 she had lost the ability to walk and she was in so much pain that ‘she couldn’t move.’
She said: ‘We had to carry her to the bathroom, we had to do everything for her, dress her, everything, it was all of a sudden.’
Following in the footsteps of Captain Sir Tom Moore, she is doing laps of her garden – and said she will continue until she is able to complete one lap unaided
She is now on the long road to recovery and still needs a wheelchair and walker to get around
Emily’s mother Louise explained that three days into her daughter catching Covid-19 she had lost the ability to walk and she was in so much pain that ‘she couldn’t move’
‘We were under the impression that after 10 days, this was Covid, and we would get over it but we are now in month eight and still were we are right now, fighting.’
She continued: ‘ The hospital was brilliant and they done so many tests, they were checking for many horrendous things like strokes or cancer and fortunately there wasn’t anything shown. But she has just been left now trying to walk.’
Louise went on to explain that the Long Covid Kids group have supported their family over the past few months.
Emily’s father Chris wants to raise awareness of Long-Covid in children and he said people are ‘led to believe’ children don’t suffer from Covid
Emily’s father Chris previously told The Mirror: ‘We just want to raise awareness of Long-Covid in children. Up until we had this problem, we were led to believe children didn’t suffer from Covid and if they caught it, it was very mild and they bounced back very quickly. But that’s not been the case.
‘She had MRI scans, blood tests and x-rays to try and rule anything else out.
‘We were obviously happy they did not find anything else, but I think even the doctors were flummoxed to start with. Not many children have been this badly affected and not much research has been done into the Covid effect in children.’
According to UK’s Office of National Statistics over 119,000 children under 16 suffer with Long Covid in UK.
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Louise went on to explain that the Long Covid Kids group have supported their family over the past few months
