Imagine waking up one day and suddenly being unable to use your legs. That was what happened to Rain Shiu Tin-yung in Hong Kong when he was six.
“He got up that morning, but his knees hurt so much that he couldn’t walk. He was in so much pain,” Shiu’s mother, Apple Kwok Siu-ping, recalled.
The pain only worsened.
“All his joints were inflamed. It was so painful he would wake up crying,” Kwok said. “He went from being able to walk to not walking at all.”
It took several visits to the doctors and…
Operation Santa Claus helps Hong Kong children with rare rheumatic diseases
