Everyday is a fight for 4-year-old Taylor Herman of Millvale. While other children her age are running around, jumping and playing, she often times can’t and has to be more careful. Taylor rarely sleeps, is in constant pain, spends a lot of her time on the ground from falling and makes weekly visits to the doctor.
Taylor, a precious gem, is battling Situs Inversus, a disease where her major organs are on the opposite side of their normal position, as well as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neurological disorder that, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, affects the peripheral nerves which lie outside the brain and spinal cord, and supply the muscles and sensory organs in the limbs. It causes loss of muscle tissue as well as touch sensation across various parts of the body.
But for almost a week, Nov. 15-20, Taylor, along with her family, was able to put the woes of her illnesses aside and live like a princess at Walt Disney World courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
“It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful. The village down there where all the Make-A-Wish kids stay is such a magical little place. And Disney, itself, is so accommodating and nice,” said Jennifer Herman, Taylor’s mother. “Ever since she’s been back she’s been more happy and loving towards people. It’s just nice that she didn’t have to go to the doctors for a whole week.”
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