• Business
  • Life
  • Celebrity
  • Sport
  • Blog
  • Auto
  • Tech
Stories from SWNS
Advertisement
  • Home
  • News
    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Karim Tahseen Khayat: Seeds Training Services and Digital Services

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Business
  • Life
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Review

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gameplay on the Nintendo Switch

    Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Review

    macOS Sierra review: Mac users get a modest update this year

    Hands on: Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 review

    The Last Guardian Playstation 4 Game review

    Intel Core i7-7700K ‘Kaby Lake’ review

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Living The Fantasy: An Interview With The Serpent Calls Author Christopher Bramley

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Sharp As A Razor: An Interview With Atheist Author Harry Margulies

    Karim Tahseen Khayat: Seeds Training Services and Digital Services

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    Dig into Temporarily Insane by Carl Borgen

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Dying woman granted final wish to be reunited with her beloved horse and pet dogs one last time

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Business
  • Life
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    Artificial Intelligence and Online Casino Games

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    What are the Latest Digital Marketing Trends?

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Improve Your Financial Prospects With a Forex Trading Course

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    Adsterra Malware Protection: How Does Adware Work?

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    How to Sell Your Online Store for Maximum Profit

    From HID to LED

    From HID to LED

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Review

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gameplay on the Nintendo Switch

    Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Review

    macOS Sierra review: Mac users get a modest update this year

    Hands on: Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 review

    The Last Guardian Playstation 4 Game review

    Intel Core i7-7700K ‘Kaby Lake’ review

No Result
View All Result
Stories from SWNS
No Result
View All Result
Home Uncategorized

My son learnt to walk with our pet ducklin

by
June 10, 2010
in Uncategorized
0
0
SHARES
7
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Becci stared in amazement as her little boy, Finaly, four, lifted both hands off the table and edged his left foot and then his right foot forward.

He had just taken his first ever steps and right beside him was his side-kick, Ming-Ming, the duck.

“Look at me Mummy, look at me!” Finlay shouted at Becci as he proudly took his first steps, his little face beaming with joy.

Becci cried with happiness as she watched her four year old boy take her first steps unaided for the first time in his life and it was all down to a disabled duck.

She thought that her little boy would be restricted to a wheelchair for life and after all they had been through, she never thought that giving a poorly duckling a home would give her son the strength to walk.

Finlay was born premature at 26 weeks and due to a traumatic birth he suffered from brain damage but it wasn’t clear how much he would be affected until he was six months old.

“Although Finlay had spent the start of his life in intensive care on a ventilator, we didn’t realise to what extent his brain damage had affected him until he got to six months. He couldn’t sit up and wasn’t developing at the same rate as other babies his age,” says Becci.

Doctors realised that Finlay had extensive damage to the grey area in his brain and told Becci that he may never walk.

“We never knew if Finlay would ever walk or not as doctors just told us it was a case of seeing how well he develops.”

But Becci was determined to help her son develop and prove the doctors wrong.

Every day she gave him as much support as possible by going through daily exercises to strengthen his legs and giving him lots of encouragement and praise.

Finlay started to progress really well but he could still only walk with the support of a Zimmer-frame.

When Finlay was four Becci adopted a disabled duck who had a splayed leg.

She saw him at a friends farm and decided that she had to take him home for Finlay.

“I adored him when I saw him and just wanted to take care of him. He reminded me so much of Finlay with his little splinted leg, I just wanted to give him a good home.”

When Becci showed him to Finlay he’s eyes lit up.

He decided to call him Ming-Ming as it was the hero from his favourite cartoon and always saved the day.

“When Finlay first looked at Ming-Ming and noticed his leg and little splinter it was like he finally had something to relate too.”

The duckling and his splinter had finally made things clear to Finlay. He wasn’t the only one.

Together they started to practice walking and Becci watched in amazement as Finlay progressed faster in a few months than he had done in four years.

“It was so cute to watch Finlay with Ming-Ming.  It was like he wanted to impress both of us with what he could achieve and would compete with Ming-Ming to be better than him.

“Whenever I clapped and praised Ming-Ming, Finlay would shout ‘Look at me Mummy, look at me!'”

As the pair became inseparable Ming-Ming helped Finlay to realise that he was different but he could still achieve what he wanted.

“Little Ming-Ming would obviously stand on one leg so Finlay decided to start copying him, perching on one leg and looking so happy, I couldn’t help but smile at the two of them, wobbling around.”

“Ming-Ming really saved the day for us. He helped my little boy to walk and I will never really be able to explain how much that means to me.”

Previous Post

Obese burglar gets stuck in 2ft hole

Next Post

Coastguard rescues two men after dinghy floats three miles out to sea

Next Post

Coastguard rescues two men after dinghy floats three miles out to sea

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Stay Connected test

  • 111 Followers
  • 60k Followers
  • 168k Subscribers
  • 23.5k Followers
  • 99 Subscribers
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Women love cheesy chat up lines, a study has revealed

Top 20 cheesy chat-up lines ladies really love

March 5, 2014
The top ten most well-known bingo phrases

The top ten most well-known bingo phrases

January 21, 2014
The horses thunder towards a jump at the Grand National

Amazing racehorse names which never made it

April 23, 2014
HGH Injections Brands: Which Ones Are Best?

HGH Injections Brands: Which Ones Are Best?

January 14, 2019
Chris Fear, 33, outside the Coral betting shop which is refusing to pay out on his 485/1 winning bet

Boycott Coral! Bookmaker faces protest after refusing to pay out on a football fan’s 485/1 bet

184
Women love cheesy chat up lines, a study has revealed

Top 20 cheesy chat-up lines ladies really love

147
Women feel invisible to the opposite sex at the age of 51, researchers found

Women begin feeling invisible to men ‘when they turn 51’

138
UKIP candidate claims Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust in masterplan to create State of Israel

UKIP candidate claims Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust in masterplan to create State of Israel

105
Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

May 4, 2022
How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

May 4, 2022

Recent News

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

The top 5 UK shopping centres with the highest footfall (and how this can help your business)

May 4, 2022
How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

How to build customer relationships and increase loyalty

May 4, 2022
SWNS

SWNS all rights reserved. Copyright 2020

Follow Us

Browse by Category

  • Auto
  • Blog
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Gaming
  • Life
  • Lifestyle
  • News
  • Pictures
  • Property
  • Review
  • Sport
  • SWNS
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized

Recent News

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

Living and Working in a Small Canadian Town Like Banff

May 13, 2022
Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

Top 5 risks of addressable media advertising

May 6, 2022
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2020 South West News Service Limited.

No Result
View All Result
  • Business
  • Life
  • Celebrity
  • Sport
  • Blog
  • Auto
  • Tech

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2020 South West News Service Limited.