Paralyzed girl, 12, is finally able to move around her Edmonton-area home thanks to free retrofit
In July, Hailey Cheng was hiking in Kananaskis, Alta. with extended family when she slipped on some rocks and fell over a waterfall. She fractured her skull, broke her back and severed her spinal cord.
“I can’t go upstairs now and some areas are really hard to get around because it’s so crowded,” she told CTV Edmonton in December. “We’ve got the chairlift installed, all the new flooring done, her bathroom is completely revamped so now she has accessibility through her bedroom,” Paul McGavigan, a partner at Alair Homes, said on Tuesday.established to raise money for the family and offered to retrofit their home free of charge.
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