Feel Good Story of the Week: Harness of Hope Helps Mom's Son Walk for the First Time

26th March, 2014

28 March 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: ABC News Blog and the Daily Mail]

An Israeli mom of a child with cerebral palsy has invented a walking harness that changes the way special-needs kids navigate the world.
Debby Elnatan designed a support harness to allow her wheelchair-bound young son Rotem to stand upright. By cinching the top of the harness to her own waist and slipping specially designed sandals on their feet, the device permits mom and child to walk together while keeping their hands free for other activities.
“When my son was 2 years old, I was told by medical professionals that he didn’t know what his legs are and has no consciousness of them,” Elnatan recently told the Daily Mail.
Elnatan said that was especially difficult thing for a mother to hear, so out of “pain and desperation” she came up with the idea for the Firefly Upsee Harness.
Read this Story on the Daily Mail

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