Ilyusha is praying for healthy legs. 2018

Ilyusha was born small, 41 cm, weight 1850 grams. A tiny little boy but strong in spirit. Ilyusha has seen many difficulties in seven years of life. When children go to their grandmothers in summer, or to the sea, Ilya goes to the treatment. But even such a life did not make him evil and cruel. Those who know our son are simply delighted with him, as he is such a positive good hilarious boy. He does not lose heart, when something goes wrong he always supports me, saying "mom, it will be alright". All year long we were preparing Ilya for school, he had classes in writing, which are very difficult for him, reading, mathematics, but Ilya managed everything, he was taken to a regular school to an ordinary class where there are 32 classmates.

Ilya reads well, counts, learns poetry and sings songs, it is a little harder for us with writing, but we try very hard and there are already results, Ilyusha for the first time wrote his own name, wrote the words "mom" and "dad". At school I help him, I take him to the toilet, to the English class, which is on the third floor, to the dining room, which is on the first floor, so Ilya spends all day in motion. And most importantly, - he does not complain that it is difficult, he does not say "mum let's not go to school", he often tells me "mom, let's be quicker, we lag behind classmates". After a year of rehabilitation we have good results. Ilyusha by himself walks with walkers without help, he can walk a kilometer without rest. Now Ilya is a strong boy who wants to walk by himself, and especially to the toilet, where he still needs my help. And next year, Ilya dreams of trying for the X-factor show, which is his dream, and we want to realize it, but Ilya dreams of going out to the stage on his own, we hope that everything will work out. We know that everything can be achieved, but it is necessary to continue treatment, not to interrupt, as the result can not go forward and back, because the boy grows and constantly need stretch marks and procedures. Treatment for us is very important because it gives us hope for a happy and healthy future.

Name: Okhrimenko Ilya Yevgeniyovych, 22.04.2010.

City: Kiev

Diagnosis: Cerebral spastic diplegia of the lower extremities