Sienna's Miracle: ANE Survivor Walks Again

0:00It's April 12th. This is Lester News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Four-year-old Sienna for Market Harboro beat the odds with a rare brain condition called Acute Necrotizing Incephalitis or ANE that swelled her. Brain after she got sick on a family holiday in November. Doctors warned her parents to brace for the worst as she lost her ability to walk, eat, or even talk. She spent five weeks in intensive care at Queen's Medical Center in Nottingham, where docs thought she might not recognize her dad when she woke up. But things turned around fast, she got more alert, started pressing buttons to communicate and got nutrients through an IV. Her local community stepped up huge, with Gary's old football team Harboro town raising 50,000 pounds in just 12 hours. That support, plus messages from folks worldwide, kept the family going, and the total fundraising now, tops 140,000 pounds for, physio, rehab, and home gear.

1:01Four weeks after leaving ICU, Sienna began talking, eating solids, and on her 100th hospital day, she walked out using a frame. Now she's strutting unsupported for long stretches, chatting in full sentences, playing with her sister, and remembering it all. She's one of just two ANE kids worldwide to bounce back this strong. She's still working on steadiness and speech delays, but her progress is straight fire, even leading a charity walk with her dad for kids battling, cancer, proven community power and little warriors like her can rewrite the script.