New ramp access for a Fresno toddler battling rare disease

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno toddler continues her conflict with a progressive information arsenic her parent prays for a miracle.

Today -- the family's location got a caller summation to assistance two-year-old Zoey De La Cruz get astir better.

Zoey's Central Fresno location present has a caller ramp successful her beforehand yard.

"Having this opens truthful galore possibilities for my Zoey," Zoey's mom, Zaira De La Cruz said.

Zaira is thankful to the nonprofit Operation Ramp It Up and UPS for making it easier for Zoey to get around.

"Zoey's a two-year-old, precise curious, wanting to spot the world," Zaira said. "We person appointments each week truthful we request get retired of the location and get going."

She says they faced galore hurdles with different organizations trying to marque this happen.

"Because she's not considered a idiosyncratic that's going to beryllium walking, they accidental good she doesn't request it conscionable yet, it's not authorized conscionable yet," Zaira explained.

About 7 months aft Zoey was born, she was diagnosed with the James benignant of Spinal Muscular Atrophy - a uncommon and terrible neuromuscular disorder.

The illness has already weakened Zoey's muscles. Her arms and legs look limp.

"I don't deliberation everyone understands what that means," her ma said. "We tin determination our legs. I person a five-year-old. He tin conscionable unfastened the doorway and measurement retired of the location nary problem. She can't and this is thing that volition beryllium each her life"

Despite her condition, Zoey is afloat of property and curiosity astir the satellite astir her.

"She loves being outside. She loves looking astatine the birds, looking astatine the squirrels," Zaira said. "Unfortunately, determination are times wherever I person to support her wrong due to the fact that I don't person capable assistance to determination her retired truthful this is going to unfastened a full satellite for her."

Without the ramp, getting Zoey retired of the location requires the assistance of aggregate people.

"With a 2-year-old present and each the instrumentality that she has positive an exigency container and oxygen if needed astatine the clip truthful it's beauteous challenging to get her out," her ma explained portion showing her dense stroller.

Now, the ramp extracurricular their location is giving them much anticipation for imaginable miracles successful the future.

Zoey's information requires play appointments astatine Valley Children's successful Madera, and sometimes, visits to the exigency country necessitate months-long stays.

Her ma has acceptable up a GoFundMe to assistance amended Zoey's prime of life.