Mom, I will stand on my feet, just help me

When Oleksandr and Liudmyla Ivanchenko found out that they were going to have a child, their happiness knew no bounds... They were already quite old, and this was their first desired and long-awaited baby. They prepared for his birth in the best possible way, so that the baby would have everything – only to live and enjoy. But... Fate decreed otherwise.

At 32 weeks of pregnancy, during a routine ultrasound, the doctor found that the boy was "already suffering". Both parents were immediately informed that children with this diagnosis simply do not survive. The doctor, who had extensive professional experience, had never seen such a case in his practice. In 3 hours, the mother was taken to the Sumy Regional Hospital, where, after looking at the ultrasound, the doctors understood everything. In the morning, a medical consultation consisting of 15 qualified specialists made a verdict in the presence of her mother: "We can't help you, and no one else can! Decide now what to do: he is not breathing, because there is water everywhere in his body, and if you leave everything as it is, he will suffocate." With these words, my mother lived for 8 days until she collapsed. Then the doctors decided to perform a cesarean section and save the mother. But the boy survived the birth, and so Elysei was born.

By an unearthly miracle, doctors were able to restart his lungs. After 20 days on a ventilator, more than a month of resuscitation under round-the-clock medication and drips, two brain hemorrhages, doctors gave no prognosis. Elysei and his mother were discharged from the hospital when the newborn's condition stabilized a bit, with a recommendation from the doctors for ongoing rehabilitation and further medical supervision.

When Yelysei was less than three months old, they came back to the Sumy Regional Hospital for rehabilitation. Doctors immediately said that it was almost 100% cerebral palsy, the boy had a terrible tone. For two weeks, the boy underwent intensive rehabilitation: physical therapy massage, paraffin, etc. A month later, the family came back for more treatments, but a full-scale war broke out. Then my mother started looking for hospitals for rehabilitation closer to home-the next place was Shostka City Hospital. A month later, it was back to Sumy, and during the examination, Yelysei was diagnosed with ventriculomegaly – he needed to undergo a brain bypass. Next came the examination by a neurosurgeon at Okhmatdyt in Kyiv, where it was decided to wait and engage in ongoing rehabilitation at the Kozyavkin International Rehabilitation Clinic. A month after the examination, the boy was hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of Okhmatdyt, where he was diagnosed with herpes type 6.

During the intensive care, the child turned over for the first time, and the ventriculomegaly was stabilized with medication. When Yelysei turned 1 year and 1 month old, he was diagnosed at Okhmatdyt: "consequences of inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (congenital herpes simplex infection, replication phase, progressive course), persistent severe irreversible motor disorders, delayed statokinetic development". The boy was assigned a disability.

The rehabilitation continued every month. The last place of rehabilitation was the Kozyavkin Clinic, and Yelyseichyk received a good course of treatment, which helped him to improve his physical performance a little. Doctors recommended to repeat the course of treatment in 3-4 months. The cost of treatment is unaffordable for the parents, as the family spends all their money on the development and rehabilitation of their only child.

There is a very good chance that all the functions of Yelysei's body can be fully restored so that the child can walk on his own. The boy is always smiling and cheerful, but he needs help to become an ordinary boy, to walk, play with other children, be healthy, and live without hospitals and rehabilitation. Help him with a new rehabilitation course!