Our son Harvey parry who is now 3, caught meningitis meningococcal septicemia at the age 15 months, after spending 4 months in intensive care he had to have both his legs and 3 fingers on his right hand amputated.

The NHS supplied our son with 8 pairs of prosthetic legs, each one was uncomfortable for Harvey to wear. See videos of Harvey's media campaign at harveyparry-appealfund.com/media/Media-compaign.htm.

The consultant who amputated Harvey’s legs advised us that if we did not want Harvey to lose even more of his remaining legs, we need a high quality pair of prosthetic legs, not the NHS legs which were causing his legs damage.

We had no choice but to go private, we found a company in New York Long Island www.astepaheadonline.com.

We raised £40,000 which we used to purchase his 1 st pair of prosthetics legs from A Step Head prosthetics in June. See the video dairy & media coverage of this at harveyparry-appealfund.com/pages/new%20york/New-York-Trip-Harveys-New-Legs.htm. Harvey spent about 8 weeks in New York. The training was fantastic and put our NHS to shame.

In October Harvey attended the Mobility clinic at A Step Ahead to have physiotherapy, and maintenance on the legs we bought in June 2008. See the videos of Harvey at harveyparry-appealfund.com/pages/new%20york/New-York-Trip-2.htm

Harvey has had these legs for 6 months now. The sockets are starting to get tight & need replacing. We have raised £9,538 so far but we need to raise £30,000 to replace the pair he has.

We are asking you if you can contribute to Harvey’s Appeal fund by sponsorship or donation or even by using your status to bring awareness of our plight.

Since going private our Primary Care Trust Enfield have withdrawn all support services i.e. physiotherapy, occupational therapy etc. They have told us that they will not fund legs from the USA even if they are better or cheaper than the ones supplied by the NHS.

We badly need your support in order to give Harvey a better life with comfortable prosthetics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation aids etc.

Since Harvey has had his new prosthetics from New York his confidence and personality has blossomed, he can now wear prosthetic legs all day with no pain or discomfort.

You can donate at harveyparry-appealfund.com via PayPal on the left under the menu. If you have any fundraising ideas, you can obtain sponsor forms from harveyparry-appealfund.com/pages/fundraising.htm.

Harvey Parry Appeal Fund Line 0208 482 1603
Email: Harvey@harveyparry-appealfund.com