From CBC Ottawa:
Lamitta El-Roz’s parents went to sleep last Friday night with a huge worry — how to pay for the $140,000 surgery that could help their six-year-old daughter take her first steps.
When Canadian doctors didn’t consider Lamitta a good candidate for surgery, the family turned to the United States.
The Stittsville girl was born with spastic cerebral palsy, a condition that prevents her from walking, crawling or rolling over on her own due to damaged nerves in her lower spine. She is travelling to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri at the end of this month for selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery.
Now, that worry that kept them up at night is gone. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, gave the family $60,000 to help pay the bills.
Lamitta’s mother, Maya Taleb, won’t reveal any details about the donor but said she’s overwhelmed.
“We went crazy and we said there are angels on earth and we are so grateful to them forever. It’s amazing news,” she said.
“The good news is now her surgery is covered and the five or six months of physiotherapy after the surgery.”