A COUPLE whose son suffers from a rare muscle wasting disease are appealing for help to fix their bungalow.

Lisa Edmonds and her husband Rob bought a bungalow in Dorset Close, Gravesend, a year ago because their 11-year-old son Cameron’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy had deteriorated so badly he had to crawl or be carried up the stairs of their two-bedroom terraced house in Edinburgh Road, Chatham.

But the house is in need of desperate repair to make it liveable, and they need help.

Lisa said: “For him, not to have to climb stairs to be able to go to bed will mean a lot. At least he will be able to play in his bedroom if he wanted.

“I cannot begin to say the difference it will make.”

“It will change Cam’s life.

“Just for our little boy to be able to have a shower, something most people take for granted, will be amazing. Bathing him is a painfully long process at the moment.

Lisa said that currently the house is ‘just a shell’. She added: “There are no walls, no ceiling, no anything. It has been like that for a year.”

Electrician Rob has rewired the home, a plasterer starts on Monday and the family is due to meet with Gravesham Council officers on Friday to arrange for a wet room and entrance improvements, which will take six to eight weeks.

Lisa said that the house must be complete by the time the council has finished its work.

“It is a panic because it is finding the time and resources now. The money is just not there – we are trying to pay all the bills.

“As long as we can get in there, I don’t care.”

The couple has set up a Facebook group - ‘Get Cam In’ – and is appealing for anyone who can help.

Lisa said she is grateful for the support the family has already had and is organising a working group – including Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch - to help out on January 21. She added that they are keen for businesses or tradesmen that can offer supplies.

If you would like to help Cameron, join the Facebook group or e-mail lisajaneedmonds@hotmail.co.uk.