I can break

Iryna will turn 14 soon. And she has occurred above the steep of severe disability. An ancient childhood trauma has manifested in a huge distortion of the spine and a rapid loss of ability to walk. Unless spine surgery is done within six months the girl will forever stay in a wheelchair. Heaviness in the back and hump accompanied Ira since childhood. At the age of four, an accident happened: she fell from the 5th floor when Mom was at work at night shift.

Then numerous injuries of the internal organs were treated. The state of the spine did not cause doctors much excitement, because all the reflexes were normal. However, not long after a hump began to grow. Despite the physical defect, the girl went to school, tried to be active, and went with her friends on a bicycle. Last summer Ira felt that her legs do not obey her. Almost every day she was swaddling and falling. The legs and arms were covered with wounds that did not have time to heal because the new falls inflicted new scratches.

It was getting harder and harder to walk. She had to leave school and stay home. Thanks to the television, the girl managed to get on the examination and consultation in Kiev. It turned out that an old trauma "manifested itself" both literally and figuratively. Curvature, like a large hook, not only changed the body and back of the girl. For almost 10 years, constant compression have exhausted and degraded her bone marrow. Only a fifth of it remains. Doctors admitted that in a few months a girl could lose the ability to walk, if the distortion is not corrected as soon as possible.

The doctors from OKHMATDYT are ready to make an operation and install a special spinal titanium implant. It costs more than 100 000 UAH. Such implants that re purchased by the state in this case do not fit the girl. Technically, they are not designed for such severe pathologies, the material is to weak and can break. As a result, there will be no correction but additional injury. The operation is complicated, there were not many such cases in the practice of surgeons. So they will do a simulation surgery on a 3D model, which will repeat the trivial pathology in Irina. Doctors will intervene with neurosurgeons who have to control and restore nerve tissue.

On the UBB website, we collect 120 000 UAH to pay for a special spinal construction for Ira.

Name: Iryna Martyniuk, 18.03.2004

City: Oleksandrivka village, Odessa region

Diagnosis: S-shaped chest-lumbar scoliosis of 4 degrees. Compression of the spinal cord