A mum is organising a fundraiser for a machine she believes can help her son fight a degenerative disease.

Sally Bassett is holding the event for her 13-year-old son Adam who has duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which causes his muscles to progressively waste away.

She is raising £4,000 to have a Vecttor machine shipped from Texas.

It was first used on patients with arthritis but the 38-year-old believes it can be used to help her son’s circulation and breathing after she attended a conference about it being tested on DMD patients.

The primary school assistant said: “If I don’t give him this chance, what would happen say, if I didn’t try it and it works, I would feel really terrible.”

Adam, a pupil at The Westlands School, Westlands Avenue, Sittingbourne, was disgnosed with DMD when he was two and a half and needed a wheelchair by the time he was 12.

His mum said: “He is really good in himself, he doesn’t seem to be bothered about it.

“It doesn’t bother him like it does me. He just gets on with it.

“He loves Lego, art, painting anything to do with his hands, really. He likes art and science at school.”

The fun day, called Adam’s Ray of Sunshine, will take place in near the sandpit at Beachfields park, Sheerness, between 10am and 4pm on September 15.

There will be activities including a tug of war, cake stall, beat the goalie and a bouncy castle.

Adam’s nine-year-old cousin Keira is being sponsored to swim eight lengths of Swallows swimming pool, Sittingbourne, on September 8.