Local nine-year-old girl with Rett syndrome receives $11,500 donation for stair lift
MEDICINE HAT, AB – It’s known as ‘Rett syndrome’ and it impacts 1 in every 10,000 girls worldwide.
Here in Medicine Hat, nine-year-old Madi Wick was diagnosed with the condition at the age of three.
“Most kids with Rett syndrome will develop naturally until about their first birthday and then start to regress and lose some of the skills that they’ve started to learn,” said Madi’s stepfather, Ryan Kingsley. “So, it has left Madi in a wheelchair permanently. She can’t walk, can’t talk.”