Sarah Ryan
Sarah Ryan is a spunky, fun loving seven year old girl with a form of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy called POMT2. She has never been able to crawl or walk but has enjoyed the freedom of a power wheelchair for the last three years. Sarah is a social butterfly and lights up every day when her school bus picks her up and takes her to school to be with her teachers and classmates. Although Sarah is nonverbal, she has no problem letting you know what she wants or how she’s feeling! While she can light up a room in no time with her wild charisma, Sarah is also loving, gentle and tender hearted. She’s famous for gentle pats of love on your back and always wanting to mommy any baby in sight! But most of all, Sarah is a fighter. In 2009 Sarah contracted a virus that shut down her respiratory system. She spent one month in the ICU having to be intubated 2 ½ weeks of that time. Doctors weren’t sure if she would even make it off of assisted breathing devices but by the time we left the hospi