Miracle Treat Day helped turn Red Deer girl’s life around
Three years ago, eight-year-old Kayla Baayens was suffering.
For months, the Red Deer girl’s parents suspected something was wrong as their daughter was losing weight and was constantly lethargic.
On Halloween, Kayla didn’t even feel like trick-or-treating, and that’s when they knew something had to be wrong.
Kayla’s neck eventually seized up and she was unable to move her head. She was subsequently referred to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary where the family was told she had – in simpler terms – childhood arthritis, a condition that could’ve caused Kayla to become a paraplegic.