Hope for Katrusia!

The parents were looking forward to the birth of their daughter. And ironically the girl was born prematurely. Katrusia could not breathe, that’s why she was put on a medical ventilator. And then there was a hemorrhage in the brain. Fortunately, the girl survived. But the side effects have appeared... Katrusia has a cyst in the brain. And she needs a surgery. Her parents are asking for help because after the months of treatment they have exhausted all the resources.

After birth Katrusia is on a medical ventilator. It stopped functioning a few times and it may have led to hemorrhage. For more than two weeks the girl was in the intensive care unit. The time passed, and she was discharged with a diagnosis of hypoxic-ischemic lesion of the brain. A month later, the parents applied to the hospital for rehabilitation but it turned out that her previous treatment wasn’t performed properly. They started therapy together with rehabilitation.

During a checkup, the doctors detected cyst in the girl’s brain. The parents went to the Institute of Neurosurgery. Now the girl needs an operation to remove the cyst. It presses on the brain and causes hydrocephalus. If all symptoms are not eliminated in time, it may lead to severe irreversible consequences.

Name: Kateryna Onopriychuk, 17.05.2016

City: Zamyslovychi village, Zhytomyr region

Diagnosis: arachnoid cyst