‘Miracle boy’ one of 53 awaiting wheelchair

A three-year-old boy, whose survival beyond the womb was something of a medical miracle, is now one of 53 children on a waiting list for a wheelchair in the Cork/Kerry region.

Adam King, who previously featured in a BBC TV series, Incredible Medicine, has been on the list since last July, and spends much of his time scrabbling around on all fours “like an animal”, according to his mother, Fiona King.

Ms King was told 24 weeks into her pregnancy that her son had osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a brittle-bone condition which, in its most severe form, is not compatible with life. The Kings, from Killeagh, Co Cork, did not know until Adam was born if he had the fatal form of the condition. During her pregnancy, Fiona travelled to Stockholm for revolutionary stem-cell treatment.