LIFE is looking a lot brighter for a young patient of the Monash Medical Centre since his family received help to buy a special modified car seat for him.
Lysterfield resident Bailey Timms has epilepsy and osteoporosis and is prone to bouts of pneumonia.
The four-year-old is unable to walk and has to be fed through a tube in his stomach.
The Timms family last year made an appeal through the Journal for a modified car seat so they could get out and about together and take Bailey to medical appointments.
Readers have donated $6000 to Bailey, meaning the modified car seat, which cost just under $4000, has been paid for. The rest of the money will be used to buy other medical equipment.
The modified seat, which is on a swivel, will make it easier for family members to help Bailey get in and out of the car. The seat will last about four years.
A hoist to help get Bailey in and out of the bath has been donated by another family.
Bailey's mother Claire Timms was ecstatic over the public's generosity.
She said she was initially too scared to check Bailey's account, worried that no one would donate. And if anyone did donate, she didn't expect much more that $150.
"It just kept going up and up," Mrs Timms said.
"I want to thank all the people who donated, and let them know the money was genuinely used.
"It's been a fantastic response, and I couldn't have done it without all the people helping."
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