VIDEO - Kayden takes first steps
MORE than 200 people turned out to welcome young Kayden Gordon home and were over the moon to hear he has taken his first steps without his stick.
Kayden, from Thurso, recently returned from an operation in America which was aiming to help him to walk. Kayden has spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and the condition had left him unable to straighten his legs.
The operation proved a resounding success and all his family, friends and fundraisers who helped raise £80,000 to pay for it gathered at the Weigh Inn Hotel recently to welcome him home.
The four-year-old’s mum, Sarah Gordon, said: “For a boy who we had been told by the NHS would never walk, he now has a whole new future full of possibilities thanks to the support of the community and the skill of the St Louis Children’s Hospital surgeons.
“We still need to keep pinching ourselves to check this has really come true. It’s amazing.”
The event also saw Kayden’s family donate extra money raised for his cause to two local charities.
A video of Kayden’s progress can be watched here
See more in today’s John O’Groat Journal.