I want to be like ordinary children

Coma. Convulsions. Pneumonia. Hypoxia... Apparently, the fate of Artem is to fight and win. 3 weeks in intensive care and, according to neonatologists, a half-dead child was transferred to the department of pathology of newborns. Fortunately, there was no limit to the parents, because then they were able to take their son in their arms for the first time. They were very grateful to the doctors for saving the child. But then the parents could not imagine what difficulties they would have to face.

Coma. Convulsions. Pneumonia. Hypoxia... Apparently, the fate of Artem is to fight and win. 3 weeks in intensive care and, according to neonatologists, a half-dead child was transferred to the department of pathology of newborns. Fortunately, there was no limit to the parents, because then they were able to take their son in their arms for the first time. They were very grateful to the doctors for saving the child. But then the parents could not imagine what difficulties they would have to face.

Now Artem is 2 years and 9 months old. Behind 6 courses of intensive care in Truskavets and Lviv, 2 courses at the Ukrainian Center for the Rehabilitation of Children with Restricted Defects of the Nervous System of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, 1 course of rehabilitation at the Brain Stimulation Center, an examination at the Institute of Neurosurgery Academician Romodanov, Kharkov Medical Genetics Center and consultations of the best neurologists. Classes with a psychologist, defectologist, speech therapist, Bobat-therapist, instructor of exercise therapy and swimming instructor in the pool - hard daily work brings its results.

Now Artemchik holds his head, turns over, sits, crawls, stands at the buttress, but the boy still does not go... In addition to medical rehabilitation, the child needs medication, he also needs to develop intelligence. And this all entails additional costs. The Artyom family is now unable to pay all bills, as the family's resources are exhausted. Now the boy needs to undergo another course of treatment and rehabilitation. Help this little bright boy make his first step and be like the rest of ordinary children!

Name: Filonenko Artem, 15.04.2015

City: Kiev

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis, delay of psychomotor and speech development, autism syndrome