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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rachael Davis

‘Happy, healthy’ girl left paralysed from neck down after falling ill

Ivy Amos was eight when she became paralysed from the neck down - (Collect/PA Real Life)

A nine-year-old girl, left paralysed from the neck down by a rare neurological condition, has returned to school and can walk with a frame thanks to specialist rehabilitation.

Georgia Wynes, from Bath, described her daughter Ivy Amos as a "happy, healthy" girl who "never had any health problems at all, her whole life" before she fell ill in February 2024.

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