5-year-old girl with rare neurodegenerative disease gets a robotic walker after Calgary community rallies to help pay for it | Unpublished
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Author: Stephen Hunt
Publication Date: August 31, 2024 - 18:24

5-year-old girl with rare neurodegenerative disease gets a robotic walker after Calgary community rallies to help pay for it

August 31, 2024
All that stood between five-year-old Emma Shingleton -- who has a rare neurodegenerative disease that has rendered blind, and unable to walk, talk or crawl -- and a robotic walker that could make her life a little bit brighter was about $50,000 and with a little help from complete strangers, an A&W and the folks in Auburn Bay, and a lot of bottle drives, she got one.


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