Help to avoid becoming a dwarf!

Charming beauty Elechka is wonderful, tender and very small… In her 2 years, she weights and has grown, like other children in 6-7 months. Now, under the garment, it is still possible to hide short and curved arms and legs, usual satellites of achondroplasia, a diagnosis that was given to Elina immediately after her birth. "Looking at her, I cannot hold back my tears. How will she live with this disease? If we do not operate her, her limbs will curve more and more ... How can I help her? Our family does not have such amount of money as needed for surgery. I just cuddle my little girl, cry, kiss my darling, destitute child, and ask God and not indifferent people for help in this trouble!”, the mother appeals to everyone.

Achondroplasia is a lack of bones development, is a result of completely unexpected gene mutations that occur in the organisms of healthy parents. The disease becomes evident in violation of the ossification process. This leads to dwarfism, shortening, and curvature of the arms and legs, disruption of body proportions. A height of a person with achondroplasia does not exceed 125 cm. This is an incredible trial both for the person and for his or her parents to live with such height and to be a little person.

But there are real wonders in the world! Modern medicine can not only align curved arms and legs but also lengthen them. By means of surgical treatment, it is possible to increase a human’s height up to 30 cm and restore body proportions. It is worth fighting for! Fortunately, achondroplasia is successfully corrected at the Sytenko Institute in Kharkiv. Treatment is carried out in three stages: lengthening of the hips, lengthening of the arms and lengthening of the legs. They agreed to accept Elechka for surgery. But parents were told that now the institute was not provided with medicines, consumables, necessary fixatives. Therefore, parents must purchase everything necessary for the operation on their own.

However, they will not be able to do this on their own! They will not be able to bear this misfortune, to see their daughter, crippled by the disease, when even psychological suffering will be added to the physical suffering. When Elina sees and recognizes the shortcomings of her body, will she have enough strength to believe in the success of this struggle, remaining a broad brow person for the world of “big people”? Yes, if all of us, those “big people”, not big with growth, but big with the greatness of good deeds, give her this strength!

Name: Gordienko Elina, October 7, 2015

City: Dobrooleksandrivka

Diagnosis: achondroplasia. The syndrome of increased neuro-reflex excitability in early regenerative period as a result of hypoxic CNS lesions.