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Gift to medical centre


PAGE 43 PAGE 4 s'C'-'-, to change ■ by-Faiza Afz^l:^


A BRAVE scHoolboy is set to undergo a life-changing


- Fifteen-year-old Matthew .


;1 0 -h o u r - 'o p e r a t io n to s t r a ig h te n h is d efo rmed spine.


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’ Dugdale suffers from Scheuer- • maiin’s Disease - a condition in which the'normal roundback


. in the upper spine, (called a ' kyphosis) is increased. It starts


in childhiMd and is thoug^^^^ to affect:l^\th'&o^^ the population. It dcciiis most- - ly in' children affecting boys


- and girls equally. , Matthew, who is currently. .'studying for his GCSE exams -;


' ,at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, will have the radical;


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surgery in' August at Alder, Hey Children’s Hospital; Liv- erpool, ih a bid to correct the curvaturn He will undergo a‘ surgical procedure called an' anterior and posterior “spinal fusion” where two metal rods


’-will be'placed into his back to straighten his spine, along with a bone graft.


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It is understood he will have to remain in' hospital for at


- least 10 day's after the opera- - tiori. His recoyery k expected to last up to three months after which he Will hopefully.be able to walk with an almost perfect posture.’ Matthew is Sft.iliii. tall, but after the surgery will


be over Oft. - ,The teenager, who lives with his - parents,’) Martyn : and


■ Annette,'and 17-yKir;bld sister,' ■ Lillie j -in D'dwriham ■


■ Chatburn,ded a;healthy life until he began experi'encing - long periods of backache and : > stiffness at the age of 13.


Road, ■ PICTURED is Mrs Elizabeth Gunning (centre) from Ribble.VaUcy St George’s Societyhan


' Alsd pictureVis Ribble Valley Conn; Allan Knox, Barbara Bryan and Sue Hind (right). ; : (B230-108/2)


, : . ■ • For more St George’s Day festival pictures, see page 44 , ' mm.


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