A MUM is appealing for help to raise funds to build a summerhouse so she can ease her disabled daughter’s painful muscles with hydrotherapy in a warm and private space.

Eighteen-year-old Rebekkah McCormick has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, but since leaving Kilpatrick School in Clydebank last June, she no longer has access to hydrotherapy and only receives physiotherapy for 20 minutes per week.

As a result, her muscles have been tightening over the past six months, leaving her crying out due to painful leg spasms and struggling to get a decent night’s sleep.

Mum Denise Stevenson, who grew up in Clydebank and lived with the family in the town until they moved to Renton eight years ago, has been fundraising for the past year, but is still £2,000 off their £3,000 target.

The family need the summerhouse to keep their hot tub, hoist and a changing table for Rebekkah, who started attending Golden Friendships recently at Clydebank’s 543 Club, and loves the social aspect of the group.

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However, Denise fears that time is running out to start providing Rebekkah with the treatment, and that if she is unable to start shortly, her daughter will be left with no option but to have another operation.

She told the Post: “We have been trying to raise funds for over a year and spent every penny we had to get an electric bed four years ago, which cost £4,000.

“We want to try and get the summerhouse up this year because Rebekkah is struggling physically and emotionally.

“We need to enclose the hot tub because we don’t want her getting cold and her body temperature can drop quickly. It will also mean we can get her changed there and then.

“It’s so important to us as we want to prevent Rebekkah being in pain and needing hip surgery in future.

“She’s gone through a lot and has needed surgery so many times and been in hospital a lot.”

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“She has avoided the hip surgery so far, but the way things are going that could change.”

Dad Craig raised funds last year by completing two kiltwalks in Glasgow and Edinburgh and completed another yesterday, while Denise held a bingo night in the Carman Centre in Renton. She is also organising a table top sale in St Augustine’s Church from 10am to 1pm on May 11.

Call 07497383016 to book a table.