Cerebral Palsy

“She was a happy and cheerful person, she would do anything for anybody,” he said.

“When she was in pain, she used to laugh it off and not let everybody know she was in pain.

“She had She would work for people who cared for other people and she did really well with her life.” Ms Gath’s wheelchair became stuck on the tracks as she crossed the Carlisle train station pedestrian crossing about 11.20am on Thursday.

Police believe the 54-year-old fell from her wheelchair as she tried to free it from the tracks.

Despite her 52-year-old carer’s frantic efforts to drag her from the path of the train, which was travelling about 80kmh, Ms Gath was hit and killed.

Mr Richards said his wife had bigger wheels fitted to the motorised wheelchair to reduce the chances of it getting stuck.

“It looks like she has gone off the side in a panic situation, the bells were probably ringing and she has panicked and gone off the side of the footpath,” he said.

“I can’t see any reason — if she was on the footpath, someone could have got her out of there.” Mr Richards, who also uses a wheelchair because of a leg condition, said he ...

Kelsey has had two eye surgeries, and she's near-sighted, but she isn't blind." Kelsey was on three different ventilators for three months, and on the 129th day after she came into the world, she went home with her parents.

"She came home on oxygen and monitors," Meade said.

"But we were very fortunate." Today, the Meade family lives in the Bennett's Creek area, and Kelsey attends pre-school through the Early Intervention/No Child Left Behind program at Florence Bowser Elementary School.

"She's receiving speech and physical therapy, and catching up very well," Meade said.

Ashlynn Marie Bennett On Aug.

26, 2001, Ashlynn Marie Bennett was born three weeks early, developed pneumonia, and spent her first 11 days in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters.

Ray and Lorrie Bennett, who live in the Oak Ridge neighborhood, also learned that the left ventricle of their daughter's tiny heart was missing - a defect that was not detected in two previous ultrasounds.

Ashlynn was taken by medical jet to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

There, the first of three surgeries took place during the infant's first five months of life.

The first surgery that was performed shortly after her birth failed, and Ashlynn underwent another operation 17 days later.

"It was a miracle that she had survived," said Ray Bennett..

Ashlynn had her fourth surgery at age 3-1/2, and w...