WATCH | Teen cartwheels into new life after 10-month treatment in US
When 15-year-old Heather Botha arrived at the airport in Gqeberha this week after spending nearly a year undergoing treatment in the US, she did a cartwheel for her loved ones who had gathered to welcome her home.
Though performing the acrobatic feat comes easily to most children, for Heather, who was wheelchair- bound this time in 2020, it was an act that symbolised the end to her Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare condition characterised by continuous and spontaneous regional pain...
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