Margarita wants to walk

This is a very hard topic, but I decided to tell you, because now our family is in a difficult situation. For six years of treatment of child we have exhausted all our material resources and ask all not indifferent people to help our daughter to learn to walk and to see a real childhood without hospitals and pain. I will say that the birth was extremely difficult, the life of not only child, but also mine was under threat. Margarita was born for a period of 32 weeks with terrible hypoxia. As a resulthydrocephalus,the defeat of the central nervous system, swelling of the brain, pneumonia, cerebral palsy.

A terrible diagnosis sounded like a verdict. At first there was a resuscitation, where we spent more than a month. My child was under the artificial respiration device for 26 days, we were assigned an intensive treatment: pills, injections, droppers. I cried, and the doctors said, "Just give up on her..." She's going to die anyway, and if she survives, it'll be a plant. You will have another healthy child. Giving up the baby to me is tantamount to death. It is better to die at once.... Then we were placed in the Department of Pathology newborns, where the head of the hospital Elena Anatolievna, and neurologist Lyubov Vasilievna made me believe that my child is not a plant that it is necessary to fight and work very hard and everything will turn out. I was taught how to care for a child, to feed, to keep, to bathe. It is very pleased that Margarita smiled to the doctors and showed interest, watched the objects, fixed the look. They discharged us from the hospital at the age of three months. Life spun around so I couldn't even imagine what it was like.

The first year of life we did not go out of the hospital Margarita had
permanent bronchitis and obstructive bronchitis, we could not start rehabilitation. In the 9th month we passed the first rehabilitation in the international Clinic of restorative treatment and began to keep her head. Signed up for a swim that greatly strengthened the immunity and we stopped hurting. In a complex with medical treatment we made exercise therapy and massages and searched for rehabilitation centers. In two years we were given a disability, and I started to receive benefits, just for some money of which is not enough. Our dad worked very hard, and I was taking care our daughter. Thanks to the efforts of our family, I even managed to go to China. Where we went through two treatment courses for three months. Our efforts did not pass in vain, in the middle of the first course my sweetie began to chew, and then sat down and crept. After the second course we learned to stand with the support. You have no idea what spectrum of feelings I had time to feel in six months of treatment, seeing positive dynamics.

A miracle? No, faith, love, patience... She has very long and serious rehabilitation passes all over Ukraine, for 6 years Margarita has passed in clinic Kozyavkin in the city Truskavets 14 courses, 1 course in Elite, 7 courses of Tomatis and Back of therapy in Kharkov, 12 courses hippotherapy, 2 courses of dolphin-therapy, 2 Course in the center of Future, 2 operations to the method Ulzibat. Now we go to the rehabilitation Center for children with disabilities are engaged with speech therapist, pathologist, psychologist, draw, play, dance. We still have a difficult path and different tests ahead, but we believe and know that we will succeed. 

Believe. Love. Appreciate. And it will work.

Name: Ponomarenko Margarita Mikhailovna, 25.05.2011

City: Poltava

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic deplegia. Seizure syndrome. Hydrocephaly in the stage of subcompensation.